Cheap gas- big motor?

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I think it's very likely that this is it. Meaning, if you want to enjoy big motors these prices may never happen again. That sounds like the opposite of what I just said before but I'm just saying smoke'em if you got'em right now, but don't start building one strictly based on some kind of false assumption these low fuel prices are likely to continue on. You might find if you start building a bigblock that just at the minute you finish gas prices are hitting $4 a gallon again at that very minute you polish it off. These low gas prices are a mere 'bribe' to ease your mind towards the democratic party in the upcoming 2016. Don't be fooled. Bush's bribe was more straightforward in the form of a check.

You've got to take an honest look at the future and just see we're making inferior gasoline out of tar sand and letting economists try to fool us on the radio so we will buy into their political ideologies but it's just not there. Without difficult political compromises and concessions the low prices you see right now would not have been possible. Some people see these low prices as an unforgivable betrayal in matters of foreign policy by this administration. Either way you look at it, it's hard to deny that these compromises are only in preparation to brace gas prices for multiple states banning Fracking in 2015 and 2016. The loss of fracking in multiple states will cause oil prices to go up and down like a see-saw again very soon as this core election issue gets discussed in upcoming campaigns... Alaska is a whole separate conversation in an of itself since many of those oil fields would not actually require fracking to acquire but would require the endangerment of millions of acres of irreplaceable wildlife. Decisions on fracking in North and South Dakota will most likely have historic implications for the 2016 election year and US oil prices ever after. The Fukushima incident could cause an election year debate driving up oil prices too. If political candidate(s) likely to win expresses a desire to close nuclear facilities the oil price will immediately go up as a result. You have got to take an honest look at oil and realize that the price could change in an instant from any number of unexpected political situations happening now including the Islamic State threat and even the US foreign policy stance on Israel's settlement of the Gaza strip in Palestine. There are so many developing culturally sensitive issues which could drive up the oil price as early as tomorrow morning that we take for granted on a daily basis.
 
Bonnewagon said:
So the last time I had put a Pontiac 400 in my Malibu wagon gas was exactly $1 a gallon. When it approached $4, I gave in and yanked it out to replace it with a 3.8. ( which promptly broke but that's another story). I have used 301's since then, my Bonnewagon now has a 301, and gas has been pricey for quite a few years. Now that gas prices are plummeting I was wondering if I should consider building another big motor. I've got some 400's and a 455. They sure are more fun, but will prices stay low? It seems everyone is jumping for joy right now but no one is asking why the hell prices were so damn high for so long. I don't buy all the BS reasons I'm hearing on the news. I think the false bottom finally fell out and the Wall Street bastards that were screwing us all along finally got clobbered. Maybe "we won't get fooled again"? What do you guys think?

Don't do it because then fuel prices will rise again and it'll be all your fault. :mrgreen: Don't ruin it for the rest of us.
 
I would built the T/A and have it be your weekend toy.
I've built quite a few engines for my Monte over the years and the current 565 is the first one I built to run on pump gas everything before that were high compression race engines, so I was always paying $7 a gallon for race fuel regardless.
To me after a long work day or on a nice weekend nothing pleases me more than taking out my overpowered big block Monte for a spin and even beating on it just a little puts a big smile right back on my face, I think everybody needs at least one fast car.
 
I'm no stranger to having a 400 for everyday use, I drove a '68 Firebird 400 to work for 18 years, gas prices be damned. But I am retired now and I don't need a monster motor to go fishing or to the lumber yard. So I will be getting the TA back in shape and that will be the fun car. The suspension and steering is all new and the 400 4-speed is tight. It needs paint but not yet because I have an air conditioning system I want to install. So as much as I'd like to do the G-body over, I can't justify it.
 
t01blaze said:
Don't do it because then fuel prices will rise again and it'll be all your fault. :mrgreen: Don't ruin it for the rest of us.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Uh, wait, I should stop laughing, because it just might happen that way! :shock:
 
I'm laughing too- at Wall Street! The DOW fell like 300 points today because crude dipped below $50 a barrel. A spokesperson said that if this continues it will "begin to hurt our economy". Really? All I see it hurting is the swine that have been raking in millions on our backs! Just consider all the high prices have been paying because of the outrageous price of oil. Lube oil, gasoline, plastics, shipping, air fares, -it's endless. So how in the hell can low oil prices hurt the average Joe that is not a Wall Street speculator? I hope those bastards are perched on a ledge and about to jump!!!
 
Low gas prices are great, no doubt. What sucks is there's a good chance of two pieces of land that my Mom owns the mineral rights to, getting a drilling rig on. My parents were good people. My Dad didn't care about money and she is living tight on money in her old age. It would suck if legal bills etc, made receiving the money barely worthwhile. I am not looking for a big pile when she dies. I want her to travel and enjoy her life for once and not have to worry about money for the rest of her life.
 
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