Are Gas Mileage Improvements Keeping Pace With Fuel Costs?

In June - 2008 THe price of a barrel of oil was about $136 - it is now below $75 - And cars have actually gotten MORE fuel efficient in that time too.

I do not see why Agent009 cannot even BREAK EVEN on that one.

Car & Driver tested the most popular vehicle in the country, the Ford F150. They found the actual F150 5.0) liter fuel "economy" was only 14 mpg city, 16 combined and 19 highway.
14 mpg local driving is mighty poor. Filling up the 23 gallon tank will be painful.

I'm loving my 3.0L diesel SUV that gets 46+ MPG in slow cruise. But I'm sure the fact-adverse will go nonlinear at this post, cuz, y'know, the Satan Diesel :-)

For interested parties, I got my car when fuel prices were at a 5+ year low. AutoSpies was full of articles about people buying the gas-guzzler trucks and utes they really wanted, and celebrating their break at the pump. I figured "this is temporary," so I got something fuel efficient, quick, and capable of hauling stuff when I needed. I love my car!

Steve: More people should think like you when it comes to THIS subject >>> I have about a 60% agreement rate with you.

Gas gets cheap and people buy "big stuff". Gas gets expensive and these same people are the first to cry about high gas prices, NOBODY ever guaranteed cheap gas prices. You buy big, you have to pay to play.

That was the loudest kiss I have ever heard.

@ricks0me: I love my car. I love my low cost per mile. I love inexpensive road trips and driving vacations :-)

Meanwhile, people with different belief systems will disbelieve what has proven to work for me, and they'll blame anyone other than themselves and their own decisions for their misery and suffering. Oh well :-/

@fiftysix wrote “…And he loves that it pollutes 40 times the allowable limits…”

Once again, you exhibit your profound ignorance on this matter, and of science in general. The “40 times” figure you site pertains *ONLY* to a specific VW 2.0 liter diesel engine, which I do not drive.

Sadly, you don’t have a clue of what you talk about… but you sure do repeat it often! That’s normal for you, as I’m sure it’ll appear (often) in your future posts :-(

According to the traders who actually serve the physical markets for oil (not the guys who trade futures) tankers of the stuff are getting harder and harder to sell. They estimate prices are off by $20/bbl. Far too high for the present buyers market.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil-trading/investors-see-big-oil-surge-but-physical-markets-suggest-caution-idUSKCN1IG0GG

THere are at least a few reasons for that

1 - Iran oil has not been cut off - when Iran Oil once depended on Tanker routes that the USA can influence - Iran can route its oil through Russia now.
2 - The relatively higher price makes fracked oil from the USA profitable to sell again - and since the USA now allows EXPORTS of oil -= there are now an additional Half Million to a Million Barrels of oil on the Market from the USA - which does two things - it makes up for the attempt to limit supply by the OPEC Russians - and it also greatly helps the US balance of trade numbers.
3 - OPEC oil prices were so low for a long time - and add in lower production quotas - and the countries that needed the money are simply not obeying the Quotas.
4 - Canada has vast production of oil that ALSO can be exported - and more will be with the building of new pipelines to the coast.

The fact is - this is still a created "shortage" market - where OPEC has colluded with Russia to limit production and raise prices - but with the USA and Canada coming to the market - with traditionally better relationships with buyers - the OPEC countries are just cutting off customers to a new source - and prices will eventually go down - but they won't get the buyers back.

TomM -What Canadian pipelines? Our DICK-tater Mohammed Trudeau has effectively killed 3 of the 4 planed pipelines costing us billions in lost revenues, jobs and energy independence. He did this to appease his Muslim masters (and George Soros?) so that we can remain reliant on asshole terrorist oil that we import via tankers for the Eastern Canada because pipleines are dirty -Fucktard Liberal logic.

The last and final pipeline -Kinder Morgan will never get built as the asshole greenies in BC are blocking the construction and will tie it up in courts for years. Kinder will walk away from our newly Banana Republic where the federal government (Drama school teacher) refuses to force rogue Provinces to comply. Cutting off all federal funding would have resolved this issue in a nanosecond but that would require leadership and balls -something our useless "Feminist people-kind" Prime Minister does not have.

This is why the US is booming (MAGA) and we are becoming a 3rd world backwoods shithole in rapid succession.

Ahh now you've gone and done it. I'm anticipating an essay from TheSteve and some glorious defense of fascist-socialism by CanadianComments. Getting popcorn and martinis now.

Your medication is in the second drawer from the top.
Kisses
Mom.

@Hauerg: Those Daffies sure do get triggered easily, don't they? I guess even Nazis need their "safe space", LOL.

I don't want anymore kisses from your Mom -that's how we got you!