sorry to sound like a jerk, we're suposed to feel sympathy for people, but this is funny to me.

this girl is married with one child.

She has a Ford Excursion with 36 gallon gas tank, so she's boo-hooing about how she can't fill it all the way up, the pump/credit card shuts off at $75.

So why are you crying about this? She just said she drives an Excursion that should cancel out your right to complain about gas cost.

she says "I need to get a better car", somebody asks like what? I thought she'd say an Accord or something. But she says probably a Tahoe cos she likes big cars.



Its almost worth us all paying extra just so I can laugh at these people in Excursions who just buy them because they like driving something big.

BTW she doesn't tow anything or is not in buisness where she needs to haul a ton of crap. She's just using the Excursion as a bigger version of what you can do with a RAV-4 etc..

What's up with people? If gas is so expensive why do you want to get a Tahoe which is still getting in the teens MPG (or so)?

I know hybrids SUVs can be another option, but it's $$ upfront and still they are not the best gas mileage. I mean Honda/Toyota make nice four cylinder SUVs or just get a car like a Malibu (or whatever) and you are getting double what an Excursion is getting.

I also like when a guy with a big-ass Hemi truck (not a work truck just looks like a DD) who complians to me at the gas station like gee this is expensive. No shit.. you are driving a 6000 lb truck what do you expect?

 

It's America rai. The land of the free, home of the brave and everyone who bitches, whines and complains about everything.

 

 

[QUOTE=mav,Apr 11 2008, 08:53 AM] It's America rai.

 

There are people that make great use out of Suburbans and such. That lady deserves to cry at the pump. Simple as that. If I had a wife, 2-3kids, and a few dogs, I would be rockin an Escalade ESV for sure!!!

 

America, land of the idiotic self entitled.

We have an explorer and odyssey. We get tons of use out of them hauling kids, big dog, costco loads (I moved 300 lBS of rock salt yesterday.) the gas mileage sucks, but its what is required.

I wouldn't buy a bigger SUV fur no reason.

 

Marketing has told these people they "need" an SUV or a truck. Sometimes I wish we were taxed on engine size and/or vehicle weight like other countries, it would make the US far more conscious of buying what they actually "need".

 

Just like people all "need" 4 bedroom houses in the valley for their 1 child... then cry that they can't afford their $3000 / month mortgage.

People somehow think they "deserve" to have everything they want.

I would like these people to go volunteer in a 3rd world country and see kids that can't afford food and basic vaccinations. "Deserve" has nothing to do with it. I know it sucks to feel like a "have not" but sometimes that's reality.

There's that expression about the eyes being bigger than the stomach.

 

I was actually pricing Mini Coopers (good Autocross PAX index) the other day and because of their awesome resale, the leases really are quite reasonable.

 

haha, i'm glad she cries at the pump. that's what you get for buying the biggest truck on the road. i understand the people that really use them, but i agree, she deserves it.