27 Jul 12 20:35, Mark Hofmann wrote to Roy Witt:

 RW>> I spent nearly that amount yesterday. Like you, I don't like to let
 RW>> the tank get too much lower than half a tank, but let it slip to 1/4
 RW>> tank after taking a trip to San Antonio. I usually put 10 gals in
 RW>> the tank and with the price changes, that works out nicely. When the
 RW>> pump reached 10 gals yesterday, I wasn't paying attention and it
 RW>> went over about two gallons, so I decided to put in 15 gallons. At
 RW>> $3.09/per, that came to almost $50...used to fill up the 68 Camaro
 RW>> (in 1968) with that amount of 100 octane premium fuel, at just 36
 RW>> cents/gal...What a deal!

 MH> Not that long ago (in 2002) when I bought my Monte Carlo brand new, I
 MH> used to pay an average of $16 to fill the tank.  It now costs me an
 MH> average of $45.

That's about right. The Z28 cost that much to fill in 2001 when I bought
it...

 MH> That is our less expensive vehicle to fill.  The Durango costs around
 MH> $75 on average.

I ran into my old 'Pop-a-Lock' partner at the Walmart a couple of weeks
ago. He bought a huge extended cab Dodge 3/4 pickup...the company expanded
his territory from San Antonio (25 miles south of here) to San Marcos (15
miles north of here) and he says he puts $75 of regular gas into that
truck every other day. Glad I quit that outfit at the end of 2008.

 MH> Even my HD costs an average of $11-$12 for the premium gas that it
 MH> requires.

My Z gets the best mileage possible. I filled it up two weeks ago and
drove it over to the car wash and back home and parked it in the
garage...it's still full.


                R\%/itt


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