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Originally posted by PurpleHaze:
I hit 125 on the way home tonight. My time is more valuable than the refined dead dinosaur juice. At least at the current rate of exchange.

PH

You are the reason I stay off the Beltway!

No, it won't change how I drive, as I am lucky enough to have a company car for the past 8 years.

When I need gas, I fill up. Don't even look at the prices.

Drives my wife NUTS!!!

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Originally posted by klymkev:
You are the reason I stay off the Beltway!

Wasn't the Beltway, klymkev. A nice straightaway on Rt. 50 around 10PM or so, with nary a car in sight. It's amazing how the average travel speed on that road has changed over the years. If you're not going 80, people in the slow lane are passing you.

PH

PH:
125?
Miles per hour or kilometers per hour?

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Originally posted by cdr:
Ah, the market. She is a wonderful thing.

But do we have a real market when there is a bottleneck with refining and a world wide cartel manipulating the price of crude? That is a hard argument to make IMO.

My driving has not changed in the least. I eat less corn though, as the price of that has mysteriously sky rocketed.

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Originally posted by irwin:
PH:
125?
Miles per hour or kilometers per hour?

MPH, irwin. Only for a few seconds, though. Needed to blow out the pipes. Dialed it back to 85 for the rest of the run to 495.

PH

I now drive much faster so I don't have to run the engine as long.

I'm gonna keep it at 60 miles per hour to save on gas. I'm also going to buy a bicycle for all my trips that I don't have to go on the highway. I figure that this could save me $100 a month for more wine purchases!