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| Grumpy Old Pharts Board Gerritol, Ex-Lax, Immodium, Bad Breath - all requirements for the Grumpy Board |
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04-06-2006, 12:21 PM
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Registered Grandpa
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: east coast
Posts: 8,592
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Don't worry, they'll make it up to us when heating oil and natural gas prices come back down to pre Katrina prices. 
Ya, like that will ever happen.   |
" Choose Life "
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04-06-2006, 07:03 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Whitman,Ma.
Posts: 4,263
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Hey beachwalker..Hows it going??? GO SOX!!!! |
I'm going where I'm going... 
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04-06-2006, 08:06 PM
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umm,the juicy sweets!!!!!
Join Date: May 2005
Location: n.chelmsford
Posts: 347
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Our government sucks!  |
Make it idiot proof, and someone will make a better idiot.
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04-06-2006, 11:17 PM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
Posts: 8,159
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Look at the bright side--I was on Long Island today and the cheapest I saw was $2.75. Average price was about $2.80. Even the fleece joints on I-95 in CT were under $2.70
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
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04-07-2006, 05:43 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,863
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$2.67 in Harrisville RI. Cheapest I've seen in RI is $2.54 at the Hess station on RT 44 in Greenville. I filled up my Trailblazer thsi morning. Granted I was almost empty but $45.00 friggin' dollars????
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No boat, back in the suds.  
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04-07-2006, 07:24 AM
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Keep The Change
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Road to Serfdom
Posts: 3,275
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I backed off from 75 on the highway to 65 with brief excursions just over 70 and I picked up more than 10% on my mileage......It's worth a try...
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“It’s not up to the courts to invent new minorities that get special protections,” Antonin Scalia
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04-07-2006, 07:33 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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getting up to speed
it has been diagnosed that you get better milage getting up to your cruising speed as quickly as possible from a dead stop than doing that same thing gradually which is opposite of what you'd think.
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04-07-2006, 10:39 AM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
Posts: 8,159
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by Fishpart
I backed off from 75 on the highway to 65 with brief excursions just over 70 and I picked up more than 10% on my mileage......It's worth a try...
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Yah, I got over 21 mpg on the trip down yesterday--this in a Grand Cherokee with a straight 6 and 150K plus on the clock. I cruised at 65-70 the whole way. I have a tach, so it's interesting to see the rpm difference between say, 68 and 75.
Of course, I would have done even better at 55, but doing that in southern RI runs the risk of getting run off the road. And forget about trying to drive the limit in CT where trucks can't use the left lane. Damn rigs will get right on your ass in the right lane until you either pull onto the shoulder or move to the middle lane. |
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