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Keep your heads up, boys, I was out for 8 months, found a new job at less pay...couldn't be happier! Don't have to travel any more, home by 5:30 every night.

The race car will be coming off the jackstands for the first time in 2 years, see you at Columbus!

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I gotta be honest here. These threads are nothing but detrimental to our sport. Its a bandwagon effect that should never start. Don't get me wrong I am not doggin on anyone on this thread. I just hate anything that hurts our sport.

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The fact is, even at 4 dollars a gallon, its roughly 133 bucks to get somewhere it cost you 100 bucks to get to last year, or 40 bucks instead of the 30 in gas it cost last year.

If people sit home over that little amount of money difference, they have no business having a car and being involved in this expensive of a hobby anyway

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I gotta be honest here. These threads are nothing but detrimental to our sport. Its a bandwagon effect that should never start. Don't get me wrong I am not doggin on anyone on this thread. I just hate anything that hurts our sport.

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I agree.


The fact is, even at 4 dollars a gallon, its roughly 133 bucks to get somewhere it cost you 100 bucks to get to last year, or 40 bucks instead of the 30 in gas it cost last year.

If people sit home over that little amount of money difference, they have no business having a car and being involved in this expensive of a hobby anyway

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THIS ? ...from a guy that is maybe TEN MILES from the primO 131 track .. ....lucky guy ,.... isn't he ?

ALL OVER the news up here ...on how people are going to(and are even DOING NOW) less of what they were doing because of 4 dollar a gallon gas.

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I gotta be honest here. These threads are nothing but detrimental to our sport. Its a bandwagon effect that should never start. Don't get me wrong I am not doggin on anyone on this thread. I just hate anything that hurts our sport.

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I agree.


The fact is, even at 4 dollars a gallon, its roughly 133 bucks to get somewhere it cost you 100 bucks to get to last year, or 40 bucks instead of the 30 in gas it cost last year.

If people sit home over that little amount of money difference, they have no business having a car and being involved in this expensive of a hobby anyway

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Don I disagree.... I built my car when I was working,
built it to what I thought was (and so far is) bullet
proof... since then I retired... I had enough money
to go to the track on a somewhat regular basis but
now I have to pay 25% more JUST on fuel that really
cuts into what I do... granted I'm spending alot on
my new ride so that does take away from racing...
but either way when you add 25% to anything thats
a substantial increase.... and they arent done YET

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I gotta be honest here. These threads are nothing but detrimental to our sport. Its a bandwagon effect that should never start. Don't get me wrong I am not doggin on anyone on this thread. I just hate anything that hurts our sport.

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I agree.


The fact is, even at 4 dollars a gallon, its roughly 133 bucks to get somewhere it cost you 100 bucks to get to last year, or 40 bucks instead of the 30 in gas it cost last year.

If people sit home over that little amount of money difference, they have no business having a car and being involved in this expensive of a hobby anyway

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Don I disagree.... I built my car when I was working,
built it to what I thought was (and so far is) bullet
proof... since then I retired... I had enough money
to go to the track on a somewhat regular basis but
now I have to pay 25% more JUST on fuel that really
cuts into what I do... granted I'm spending alot on
my new ride so that does take away from racing...
but either way when you add 25% to anything thats
a substantial increase.... and they arent done YET

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I hear ya Raff.

Last month we were so busy at the lot i couldnt see straight. This month because of the gas hike its been notably slower, and i am sure its the gas prices.

My view is a little different i guess because of my background. Back 35 years ago, while in the service my collateral duty when the ship i was on was overseas, i was the ships duty driver. I drove the big wigs around in England, Italy, Spain, Greece, etc, etc, etc. 35 years ago over there gas was more expensive than it is here currently, even at 4 bucks a gallon. Bet it is 5 or 6 bucks a gallon over there, if not more as we speak.None of those country's has a standard of living like we do, thats why you dont see Suburbans, Expeditions, and Durango's over there,that get 10/15 miles a gallon, they are forced to live within their means, unlike here Guess what i am saying is that people just dont know what a bargain gas is here, compared to 95% of the rest of the world, even at 4 bucks a gallon.
That said, i wish it was 2 bucks also ...

Its just that drag racing is an expensive hobby, no way around that, i have done enough of it to know. I had to sell my car to start this business, couldnt do both. sometimes tough decisions have to be made.
The people who spend pretty much every dime they have on racing and their car( and there are a lot of people like that) i feel for. Its an addiction.
But my point is that if you cant put gas in your tow vechicle to go racing, its pretty darn likely you arent in a position to where you should be racing, from a financial standpoint. Kinda like having a 1500 dollar a month house payment and making 12 or 15 bucks an hour, it just doesnt make sense

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It's not the monthly races (or even weekly) that bother me. That's a choice.
Paying $4.29/gallon for a gasoline by-product (diesel) for day to day life is
what irks me.......Well, one of the things.

I saw a barrel of oil went down $3.59 yesterday but, pump prices didn't.

I still plan to get my revenge on winter but, paying double for fuel sure
shortens up the funds for everything else.

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You will commit suicide trying to make sense out of a barrel of oil and its effect on pump prices.

Heck a while back, oil was 35 a barrel, when gas was down around 2 bucks or so a year back or more. Now a barrel is about 3 times that, but gas isnt 6 bucks a gallon which doing the math would seem to say....i think they wring us out of every dime they think they can get away with, and then come back about a penny a gallon from there

What bugs me is you go by a Speedway and its 3.99, and another Speedway 1/2 mile away 4 minutes later its 3.93

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HAH !
You guys are complainín 'bout $4 Dollar a Gallon Fuel ?

We're getting it worse up here in Canada !
$1.27 a LITRE, times 4 LITRES to make a Gallon, equals $5.08 a GALLON,
and,
Thats WITH Our Dollar being worth $1.04 U.S., 4 cents HIGHER than the U.S. greenback.

Just gonna get worse, I don't get it ?
In Canada,
we have the 2nd largest Proven Oil Reserves in the World, only "more" Oil in Saudi Arabia by a slight margin ?

Why don't you Guys just "annex" us, and start our own North American Oil Supply ?
FRIG the Camel Jockeys !

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3.79 liters to a US gal that makes yours almost 5
qts to our 4 qts gal

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HAH !
You guys are complainín 'bout $4 Dollar a Gallon Fuel ?

We're getting it worse up here in Canada !
$1.27 a LITRE, times 4 LITRES to make a Gallon, equals $5.08 a GALLON,
and,
Thats WITH Our Dollar being worth $1.04 U.S., 4 cents HIGHER than the U.S. greenback.

Just gonna get worse, I don't get it ?
In Canada,
we have the 2nd largest Proven Oil Reserves in the World, only "more" Oil in Saudi Arabia by a slight margin ?

Why don't you Guys just "annex" us, and start our own North American Oil Supply ?
FRIG the Camel Jockeys !

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With high fuel prices coming..Is this going to change how much you race this year? We all spend alot of money trying to improve our cars and program. Are you going to travel? Stay close to home? Let's hear what everyone is doing and good luck to everyone!! Ted

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