Pro And Con

[Jeff Porter]

While filling up my car today, thinking of my elio, it dawned on me. Plus: I can wash the whole windshield from one side. Con: with the size of the tank, I won't have time to wash the windshield before the car is finished filling up!
Good problem to have...

LOL, nice!

 

[Jeff Porter]

I recall filling my Opel in 1972 at the Crow-Flite station and getting change back from a $5 bill. Boy, times have changed!

Googling on things in 1972, I was 9 yrs old....

Cost of a new home: $30,500.00
Median Household Income: $9,697.00
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.10
Cost of a gallon of regular gas: $0.36
Cost of a dozen eggs: $0.52
Cost of a gallon of Milk: $1.20

 

[Lil4X]

A gallon of regular was generally 27¢ to 34¢, but the really cheap stuff was even less. Of course back then you could run most cars (with low-compression engines) on "drip gas" or casinghead gas that came up out of oil and gas wells condensing from natural gas at the surface. Most well owners were perfectly happy for you to drain off this "waste", provided you knew how to do it safely. It had a lot of problems - it pinged pretty badly unless you had about 6.5:1 compression or less, it was very "dry" (meaning it would dissolve any lubricants in your valve train) so you had to add a dollop of Marvel Mystery Oil to your tank to be sure your top end valve guides were lubricated, and it usually had a lot of chemical impurities that made is smell bad, but I can't complain, it was free!

 

[ecdriver711]

I look forward just to not visit the pump so often.

 

[Mr Deleon]

I filled half of an Elio tank today because I have to go to Portland tomorrow and I never travel without a full tank at the beginning. Isn't it amazing how we automatically think of things in Elio "measurements". It is such fun. Z

I often find myself thinking and saying...in the elio, I would only have to fill up once to make it to here, here, here and here and them come all the way back.

 

[Jim H]

A gallon of regular was generally 27¢ to 34¢, but the really cheap stuff was even less. Of course back then you could run most cars (with low-compression engines) on "drip gas" or casinghead gas that came up out of oil and gas wells condensing from natural gas at the surface. Most well owners were perfectly happy for you to drain off this "waste", provided you knew how to do it safely. It had a lot of problems - it pinged pretty badly unless you had about 6.5:1 compression or less, it was very "dry" (meaning it would dissolve any lubricants in your valve train) so you had to add a dollop of Marvel Mystery Oil to your tank to be sure your top end valve guides were lubricated, and it usually had a lot of chemical impurities that made is smell bad, but I can't complain, it was free!

I worked at a highway gas station when I was in high school. Price of regular was $.25 per gallon and during the frequent price wars it was often 5 gallons for a buck and this was with full service. We won't get back to those prices but the Elio will make our fuel dollars go about three times as far.

 

[#491]

Googling on things in 1972, I was 9 yrs old....

Cost of a new home: $30,500.00
Median Household Income: $9,697.00
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.10
Cost of a gallon of regular gas: $0.36
Cost of a dozen eggs: $0.52
Cost of a gallon of Milk: $1.20

Cost, not price, hasn't changed much. The prices mentioned here would be very close to todays median household income. .36 cents a gallon sounds cheep today bu in 1975 I was making $2.65 an hour.

 

[CompTrex]

Sitting in a parking lot that they call I66 this morning. Watching hybrids, motorcycles, and multi-passenger vehicles zoom by me in the HOV lane. sigh...
2016 can't come soon enough.

 

[LockMD]

Sitting in a parking lot that they call I66 this morning. Watching hybrids, motorcycles, and multi-passenger vehicles zoom by me in the HOV lane. sigh...
2016 can't come soon enough.

eh um hush your mouth you MEAN 2015, right?

 

[CompTrex]

eh um hush your mouth you MEAN 2015, right?

Well, LATE 2015. That's my hope.