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I had to fill up in Lincoln Park last night. $2.60 something for 93. Crazy  ! Sean P.S. I only bought a couple gallons and filled up in Lake Forest.
'99 Silver SVT Contour
(2000 miles since June, now needs new front brakes and bearings)
'98 CBR900RR Again
(Put away for the winter)
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European Mondeo owners pay $4-6/gallon, so... 
2005 Nissan Sentra 1.8 SE, Code Red. '00 Tropic Green Ford Escort SE [Contour's little cousin]
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i pay 2.19 in libertyville for 93
E1 CSVT
s/c-----x
turbo---x
3L------check
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Well this may be good, but bad for me, Gas is $1.92 for 87 at BP in Roselle on Irving Park Road. I gotta start using other friend's cars... even tho they suck ass... 
Former owner of a 1995 Ford Contour GL w/ 2.0L ATX
Proud owner of a 2005 Ford Taurus SE 3.0L V6 Vulcan 
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Originally posted by 99CSVT:
I had to fill up in Lincoln Park last night. $2.60 something for 93. Crazy !
Sean
P.S. I only bought a couple gallons and filled up in Lake Forest.
and people say I charge alot for parts yeah right
$2.60 
I am going use the bus 1.75!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I just spent $2.30 for premium. 
Hector
2003 Rally Red Mitsubishi Evolution VIII
257HP/259TQ
2005 Lapis Blue Mazda 6s
RET: 00 Cabernet Red Ford Contour Zetec ATX SUPERCHARGED
160HP/141TQ
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Oh calm down, it's gonna hit damn near $3.00, then it will fall to $2.50 and everyone will be happy with paying over $2 for gas. As cliche as it sounds, everyone else in the world pays more, perhaps this will stop the SUV's from being so popular. It's strange because when this happened in the 70's everyone got japanese imports that were fuel economic, today hardly anyone cares.
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IL Sean,
A lot more people care than you realize. The majority of the people where I work are already out shopping to replace their SUVs/Trucks with fuel-sippers. I'm liquidating assets right now to build-up the money to replace my Contour with a fuel-sipper. My replacement will either be a Honda Civic hybrid, Toyota Echo or Corolla, or one of the Volkswagon Turbodiesels (haven't finalized decision).
The interesting thing is that the American car industry has missed the boat once again. Back in the 1960s, the American auto industry completely ignored the influx of fuel efficient compact cars from Japan that were gaining a foothold in the US. When the oil embargo of 1973 hit, the American auto industry was caught with it's pants down and lost huge market share as a result (John Delorean saw this trend coming but GM management ignored him). Now, here we are with rapid inflation in fuel prices (not for the same reasons) that will drive a good percentage of the public back to compact fuel efficient cars. The top 10 most fuel efficient cars for 2004 are all foreign. Looks to me like the American auto industry is about to give up more market share because they do not have matching products in this area. There are some good fuel efficient American cars but there are a lot of people living paycheck-to-paycheck who are going to maximize efficiency when possible; the American cars are not pushing the limits of efficiency like the Japanese and Germans.
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Spindlelegs just save your cash and buy a cheap civic. My 93 del sol gets damn near 40mpg all the time. In the summer it'll get better then 40mpg. Why spend all that money on a new Hybrid when you got fuel hogs out there already.
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Hmm, maybe should get a Natural Gas powered Contour... 
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