Re: [DML] DCS'12

[Stephen Rice <stevedmc@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't think Bill was refering to anyone in Louisiana when he
mentioned gas prices.  There were several people across the USA that
would have driven to DCS had gas not been $4 a gallon earlier this
year.

I find crying about gas prices to be amusing.  When I was a kid people
cried about gas costing 75 cents a gallon.  When I was a teenager they
cried about it costing $1.50 a gallon.  When I was in my 20's they
complained about it being $2.50 a gallon and now people complain about
it costing $3.50 to $4 a gallon.  In two or three years people are
going to be crying about gas costing $5-$6 a gallon. Gas will always
be "expensive" and I'm not going to let such a small expense cause me
to sit around at home the rest of my life.

I drove about 1,400 miles for DCS.  At about 25 mpg and $3.50/gallon I
estimate my fuel expenses to have been $196.  Honestly, most of the
time I didn't spend more than $3.25 per gallon and one place was even
$3.03.

I find my $196 fuel expense to be extremely cheap compared to the
thousands of dollars people spend on big screen televisions and play
stations.

-Steve Rice
#16510

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Welmoed <welmoedj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I would drive up all the way from here but there's a wide ditch in between :)
> and yes... the gas price would also be a problem on this distance.
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> Welmoed.
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> --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "content22207" <brobertson@...> wrote:
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>> Found it: http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/196078_416473508397905_2046586934_n.jpg
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>> I also transported Matt Bozevich and his wife to breakfast snuggling in the passenger seat like a couple of lovestruck teenagers. Front end was again 2 inches off the pavement. Had I known then opportunities afforded by DCS, I could have saved a lot of trouble lowering my springs.
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>> Hopefully anyone reading this foolishness who forewent the opportunity to come to Orlando won't make the same mistake in Dayton (not just Farrar: there were quite a few people who decided back in December not to drive down because gas was too expensive -- it wasn't -- or because the drive is too long -- it was, just suck it up and drive anyway. Jim Reeve drove all the way from Minnesota).
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>> Bill Robertson
>> #5939
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