I have posted this to others on the forum and want to hear from you E55 member's. Here the price of 91 oct fuel jumped to $3.15 overnight. I still love to drive my small block.

 

Hasn't affected my driving! Beast just keeps getting stronger as day goes by! I'll be experimenting on 101/103 or higher sometime in the future.

 

Honestly, if someone driving an E55 has their driving habits affected because of the price of gas, they should be driving a cheaper car

 

Exactly!

 

Well, my driving habits have been affected, but in a different way. Today was the last day for gas and after 6 hours of waiting in line, only 89 octane was left, and I had no choice but to fill up with it, as I was running only on fumes. The price was $2.88 a gallon which is ridiculously cheap I think. I am in Madison, Mississippi, and tonight it was announced that as of midnight tonight, all gas stations in MS will be closed to public and avaliable only to emergency vehicles only...which I think is stupid, but I can suffer staying at home and not driving for now. I am 3 hours from the coast and although it's nothing compared to there, it's still bad here.

 

Nope. Like the others are saying, if $3.10/gallon is affecting your driving habits of an E55, you have much more serious, problems.

 

how much is gas anyway? who cares, you still gotta buy it.

 

you... HUSH!

 

Its not that we cannot afford it....hell we all can ..

but its a mental thing thats going on the mind...it keeps on telling us not to step on the gas too much!

 

Exactly! Just because we can afford some things, doesn't mean we should. Hell if McDonald's raised the price of their burgers to $5 a burger, my eating habbits a McDonalds would certainly change...or cease...not that I ever eat there anyway (yuck) So I don't drive an E55 gass guzzler....my driving habbits have changed ragardless. I try to not drive anymore than I must. I have grown fond of having pizza delivered....use Papa John's gas to eat instead of mine

 

Only thing I really get concerned about is shortages.....I am tempted to fill up my racing gas cans with some fuel just in case....but they have been saying on the news around here, that it would be the exact cause of a shortage around here......if we all started stockpiling. Gonna play it by ear.

6 Hour gas lines......hello 1973.

 

There was some talk this morning around the office that a few of the refineries that have been down are running again....they say only at about 35% for the time being, but at least they are on. Anybody know anything about that?

 

You filled the beast w/ 89? Holly crap.... I hope you just filled it enough and drive your other and cheaper cars

What happened in 1973? Sorry... I wasn't born, yet

In my country, the gas price used to be very static.... no change at all - not even a penny - for years as it was fully controled by the government. And when the government announced the plan to increase the price - even tiny - you could see that people were just filling like crazy.... wouldn't be surprised if they also hit 6-hour waiting

 

Getting gas will likely be the issue... not price, just last nite I could only buy 87 octane and the station owner who has 10 stations told me that he is being told by his supplier that he can only have about 40% of what he typically orders and the higher premium fuels and diesel are even harder for him to get.

Hopefully this will be shortlived as fuel affects basically all goods and services and our economy that is just getting back on track will go into the ****ter again like it did after 9/11.

Weather or not we can drive our 55's will be way down the list of problems we will all face if our economy can't get access to affordable fuel.

 

Just out of curiosity I pushed my transmission mode from "S" to "C" this morning for the 27 mile commute. It saved me about 2 MPG. I was not gunning it hard, and it starts in second gear. Just thought it was interesting.

We will probably try to drive our Navigator less, but it is the family vehicle so it must be used! But when the lease is up in 2 years, we will most likely not buy another SUV.

 

I've located a 240D wreck in NV. I'll transplant the engine into my '01 55... style with economy... plus that GREAT sound!


....whooops, dropped the damn crack pipe again.

 

I read this question and decided to see whether driving patterns affected my mileage that much.

I checked my mileage in two trips to work. It's 22 miles round trip. The first trip I tried to milk every mile out of my gas. Got 16.7MPG (in town).

The second trip was ***** out. Got 15.7MPG. That equates to 20 miles out of tank difference. Sorry but I'll continue to drive my E55 like it should be driven and when I can't get gas I'll get a putt putt to commute in.

 

You might consider octane booster if you can only get lower octane fuel. I've used it to reduce ping in my Vette and it worked well.

 

A cheaper and more effective solution would be to use toulene or methanol.. Toulene is more readily available in most hardware stores.. You can buy either of them a few gallons at a time and just keep in the garage. If you are stuck with low octane fuel, adding some of the above will raise the octane rating quite a few points.

 

Ahhh Methanol! Works wonders. Just be careful with your mixture because Methanol corrodes aluminum. Had to replace the whole fuel system on our Grand National after 4 years of religious Methanol use! Never heard of using Toluene! What ratio would you mix and what does your exhaust smell like?!? Just want to know what all the Vettes and Mustangs will be smelling!

 

Glad to hear you and your's all well,hope friend's and fam are okay.
Take care.

 

I drive more, round and round the block, just to show the ****roaches that I can...LOL!

 

Oh, I did use the octane booster, trust me, I found that before I found the gas!

 

Let's put this into perspective and break it down to actual $'s:

20 gallon tank (approximate)

- If gas goes up by $0.50 = an additional $10 per fill up x 4 times a month = $40 a month more
- If gas goes up by $0.75 = an additional $15 per fill up x 4 times a month = $60 a month more
- If gas goes up by $1.00 = an additional $20 per fill up x 4 times a month = $80 a month more

Even if it goes up by an additional $1.00 per gallon, you are talking about an extra $80 per month, assuming you fill her up 4 times a month. Come on, anyone complaining about the gas price that drives an E55 has bigger issues such as living paycheck-to-paycheck.

 

It's not that bad for me because I've been riding in the GS more often then my car lately. Either way, I still drive the beast like I would any other day...