Filling my fucking LAWN MOWER will exceed what any of us used to pay for a tank full in the car.

[Stinky The Clown]

I have a mower with a 5 gallon gas tank. I fill it from a 5 gallon can.

Gas here hit $3.55 today.

Do the math.

I remember cruising town in a 64 Comet Cyclone with a 289 and a 4 speed. Fast. Usta cost a buck for the night. We usta chip in. A quarter each. We were bad. Four bad boy greasers in a hot rod. All night. For a buck.

Now my fucking mower wants almost twenty times that.

[villager]

1. "Mission accomplished," eh?

Shit.

[Clear Blue Sky]

2. At least there are electric lawn mowers out there, unlike cars...

[madmom]

3. I remember going out and picking up pop bottles along the road, taking them in for the deposit, that

was our "week-end" gas money.

[shrike]

28. I do that now, but I turn them at the aluminum scrap plant

65 cents a pound right now. We put the money in our vacation fund.

[Ian David]

4. Bush criticized Clinton because gas increased by $0.19/gallon in 8 years. n/t

[dysfunctional press]

10. of course- he's an oil man...he wanted much MUCH more than 19 cents over 8 years.

and he got it.

isn't the american electorate great?

[Ian David]

14. But with the collapse of the dollar, they're still breaking even when traded in euros. n/t

[jmowreader]

33. That sounds like Drexel black humor

I remember reading of a Drexel trader who was indicted, then fired, for making $23 million in illegal profits off 17 inside trades. The real reason he was fired was for violating securities laws, but the joke running around Drexel was that Milken fired him because anyone who had to do seventeen trades to make $23 million couldn't be any good.

[Fridays Child]

5. I have a fucking lawn mower, too.

His name is Harold. :P

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. I have two lawn mowers

I gave birth to both of them.

[lectrobyte]

6. $3.55 gallon is cheaper than a lot of the world pays.

[The Straight Story]

8. And minimum wage and health care for a lot of the world is better than here

:)

[Wednesdays]

25. As well as public transportation

:)

[emilyg]

7. Get a couple of goats.

[1]

11. or have these little sweeties meet you every night...

[shrike]

29. They're cute, but the city would be on me like white on rice

[Stinky The Clown]

32. No aminals allowed here in the land if the teeming masses.

Apart from 'conventional pets'.

Just a few miles further out and we could keep horsies.

Or goats.

Or sheep.

Maybe even piranhas.

[orleans]

9. get a push mower that doesn't use gas?

i'm considering getting one. but i was thinking about getting it for "environmental" reasons--lately, with gas over 3.60 (i saw 3.75 & 3.85 tonight) i'm thinking it might come in handy for pocketbook reasons as well.

[Stinky The Clown]

15. My back forty is a 8%-10% grade

No way to push a mower up **that** slope

[Fovea]

17. This only sounds flip...

Eventually getting a horse solves both problems. I used to stake my horse out on the lawn in a different spot every couple of days. My SO's parents used goats.

and while a goat can actually pull a cart, a horse is far better. Either one is ok with a 10% grade. Buy a Morgan colt or filly, and break it to a single shear plow... now you are a pre-post oil farmer.

I know it sounds like I am making a joke. But who knows, at some point it may make sense.

Here is another solution!

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/09/the_cutting_edg.php

use a mountain bike for low gearing...

[cherokeeprogressive]

21. Push it DOWN the slope?

Shoot me.

[Stinky The Clown]

27. Uh ...... that only works if it cuts a VERY wide swath

What goes down, has to get back up again.

[roody]

12. I enjoy my push mower because you can cut

the grass anytime day or night. It is good exercise too.

[JohnyCanuck]

16. Don't expect the situation to get much better any time soon.

Peak Oil Overview - March 2008 (Pdf and Powerpoint available)

Posted by Gail the Actuary on March 13, 2008 - 10:57am
Topic: Supply/Production
Tags: eia, eor, FSU, introduction, oil reserves, opec, overview, peak oil, peak oil presentation (list all tags)

Preliminary data regarding oil production through December 2007 is now available from the US Energy Information Administration, so it is a good time to put together an updated summary of where we are now with respect to peak oil. The major themes of this presentation are

• The US oil story
• The world oil story
• Five myths

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3726#more

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

18. $3.86 today for regular unleaded in Southern California

It's gone up about 20 cents in the last couple of weeks. Premium is now over $4. Amazing.

[JeffR]

19. What a freaking cool car!

I was a car nut at age 8 when the Comet Cyclone debuted.
_____________

Mercury Blues

Well if I had money
Tell you what Id do
Id go downtown and buy a mercury or two
Crazy bout a mercury
Lord Im crazy bout a mercury
Im gonna buy me a mercury
And cruise it up and down the road

Well the girl I love
I stole her from a friend
He got lucky, stole her back again
She heard he had a mercury
Lord shes crazy bout a mercury
Im gonna buy me a mercury
And cruise it up and down the road

Well hey now mama
You look so fine
Ridin round in your mercury 49
Crazy bout a mercury
Lord Im crazy bout a mercury
Im gonna buy me a mercury
And cruise it up and down the road

Well my baby went out
She didnt stay long
Bought herself a mercury, come a cruisin home
Shes crazy bout a mercury
Yeah shes crazy bout a mercury
And cruise it up and down the road

Well if I had money
I tell you what Id do
Id go downtown and buy me a mercury or two
Crazy bout a mercury
Im gonna buy me a mercury
And cruise it up and down the road

[SlicerDicer-]

20. One name... M King Hubbert

Cant say we were not warned :/

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601072&sid=aScKsMlWs0Fc&refer=energy

Got another Canary there are we willing to listen? Or shall we throw him under the bus too?

[B Calm]

22. I mow 5 acres. . . I went to a diesel lawnmower.

[Hubert Flottz]

23. Did you wear your lapel pin to the finance company?

Ain't them "thousand points O' light" purdy?

$3.65 here in West Bye Gawd Virginia...I'm getting me one of them "Pet Goats" ASAP!

Edit...I had a 64 Comet and my Dad had another one that he bought brand new. I think it cost about $6.00 or $7.00 to fill them up when I was driving mine.

[Rosemary2205]

35. I remember about $7 to fill up an Olds handmedown

of course I made about a dollar an hour then. :)

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

24. If you don't have a very big lawn, get an electric lawn mower.

That's what I use. I live in town only about .25 acre. I plug the thing in to outlets in my house or garage. It kind of feels like your vacuuming outside.

[NNN0LHI]

26. If his mower has a 5 gallon tank my guess he is cutting over an acre

I have a 2 1/2 gallon tank on my mower for about 2/3 of an acre.

And there are no CAFE standards for lawn mowers so they really suck it up.

Don

[Stinky The Clown]

30. Mine is a 1976 Gravely 812

Strong Like Bull

These were made when "American built" was a sign of quality. I have paid less than $500 in repairs since I owned it. A couple of new clutches, lots of new blades, oil changes, routine maintenance. It plows snow in the winter and cuts grass in the summer. It moves full size trailers around. A few years back, with tire chains, it went out in a snowstorm and fetched a stuck car home.

It sucks gas and probably pollutes like crazy. But I honestly believe it will run for at least 50 years (it is 32 years old now).

[DrCory]

31. Use a mechanical mower...

Can be tiring to be sure, but it's a great workout!

[Rosemary2205]

34. hey you freeper lazyass.

Dammit, don't you know you are supposed to get out there with mechanical reel mower or better yet a pair of sissors and hand cut the thing to do your part toward global warming?

And besides that, how DARE you even have a lawn to begin with! Grow organic veggies you planet hating freeper!!

:rofl: