Gas Prices?

[ILLINOIS AVE]

Will we let them keep us from enjoying our Benningtons ? Not me!

 

[Potomacbassin’]

I'm just gonna rip the engine off and let the wind and tide be my propulsion!

 

[Livingthelife]

No. We don’t use that much gas to begin with.

 

[Jack M]

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[David G]

I have a feeling the surf boats that go out, wont be out as long.

 

[ILLINOIS AVE]

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Did I do something wrong?

 

[Jack M]

No , just a reminder to any one who may reply. The gas price thread earlier this week got political .

 

[CLDave]

Thanks for the vigilance on this Jack (and mods) - Let's keep this focused on the boats. I miss my boat.

On topic, My new Benny uses significantly less gas - as long as I'm not flat-out that is. I can run about 1/2 throttle all day on my chain and get wehre I want to go fine. On my old, twin-tune Benny with a 115 I had to run pretty much flat-out to get anywhere, and that was tougher on the cashflow.

 

[Bill N]

No , just a reminder to any one who may reply. The gas price thread earlier this week got political .

The reminder is appreciated. Pretty easy to throw a comment out there without any ill intent. But it only takes one person to twist it the wrong way and......well we know where it goes.

 

[ILLINOIS AVE]

No , just a reminder to any one who may reply. The gas price thread earlier this week got political .

Hey Jack didn't mean for it to go in the wrong direction. You can delete the thread if you like!

 

[Jack M]

No need to delete, with the reminder it should stay on track.

 

[Michiman]

I just don’t look at the price. Owning a boat is not for the thrifty nor feint of heart.

 

[SEMPERFI8387]

I just don’t look at the price. Owning a boat is not for the thrifty nor feint of heart.

Or a Jeep or Hemi pickup from 2004 …

 

[SEMPERFI8387]

$4.19 to $4.45 in two days. Ouch!

 

[Jack M]

3/3 I paid $3.28 Today ,it's $4.29

 

[mrob]

I told the grandkids more lily pad than tubing this year. I think they know I’m blowing smoke. My mission is to hear their laughter no matter what the cost of fuel.

 

[papajoe74]

i wait 8 months for our 4 month boating season. Gas prices aren’t stopping me.

 

[Lay Lake]

I guess I'm in the minority of the responses so far, but I will go out less and not run as high of rpm's. However, our house is lakeside so we can still enjoy the water.

 

[BigKahuna]

If it needs it fill it up!!! Gas prices won't have any effect on our boat usage. We usually just cruise to an area anchor, eat, swim, float, repeat!!!

 

[Vikingstaff]

Now that we have the jet ski, I can lean on that when I want to go sprinting around and get my speed fix. That said, after not having the boat available for use ALL of last summer, we will not intentionally avoid usage due to gas prices.

I will cringe internally with refills, because, well, I do that with a lot of things. However, I will grin and bare it.