Smartie's It'll Do Bar & Grill #28

The cheapest gas I have seen is 3.04 in the next state and in our state I have no idea it is always higher here.

 

That looks like fun to drive.

 

Gas is 3.49 for regular here in Jackson.

 

The average price is just over £5 per US gallon in the UK (for unleaded) at the moment (£1.33 per litre), which is something like $7.87.

 

I would think it would be cheaper where you live because of all the oil wells in your state.

 

I hope your car gets good gas mileage.

 

It would seem like it. But they call Jackson the home of millionaires. Everything is more expensive here. The median price of a house here last year was about 1,000,000 dollars. five years ago a friend of mine here sold his house for 495,000. It is a modular with three very small bedrooms that he paid 120,000 for. Normally that modular would have sold most places for about 85,000. When he listed it it was the cheapest house in Jackson and went quickly.

 

I would say your friend made a tidy profit.

 

Yep he sure did as he had it paid for.

 

There's a reason most of us don't have huge gas-guzzling cars in the UK! I have an estate car with a 2 litre turbo-diesel engine myself (I need something big enough for the dogs) - it costs me something like £40 ($62) for about 400 miles on average, which isn't too bad (it doesn't have great acceleration stats, but it'll cruise at 70-80 MPH all day quite happily and comfortably). My gf has a small petrol car (1 litre engine), and probably gets something fairly similar out of it.

We do on average have much smaller cars in the UK than in the US, I think. It isn't just about the fuel costs, though - as noted earlier, our towns and cities aren't grid planned, and are often really just groups of old villages (ancient, in US terms - often been there, with some 'core' parts layed out pretty much as they are, for a thousand years or so, and often with some road routes (and even some buildings, of course) that have change relatively little in that time) that have just grown into each other, so the roads are often much narrower and full of all sorts of twists and turns. Our smaller country roads are often quite narrow (and quite old in their layout around field boundaries and so on), too, and not very straight at all. Smaller cars are generally just better suited to our road system, and the same is probably true in alot of Europe. There's also a reason why the Americans build the best 'muscle cars' for going fast in a straight line, while Europeans build far better 'sports cars' that can deal with cornering much more effectively!

 

agreed the cars with best handling are overseas, also indy which is made up mostly of foreign race cars tests driver skills better than nascar because they have to calculate for corners while nascar race drivers only go in one big circle

 

I wonder whether it's also got something to do with the US never really having embraced Formula 1 - that's really all about the cornering.

The US does seem to have a thing about playing its own sports more generally though, and virtually ignoring the sports that the rest of the world plays. Don't know why that is.

 

that is because of the money, if many spectators are europeans american owners would have to share profits with the europeans for cricket, soccer, etc..

 

Top of the morning to ya everyone. What a great day to be alive. Here it is 3 degrees above zero with a little wind. So come on and wake up, get up and let's get rolling. This morning for breakfast I thought that we could have some pastries. So grab your coffee and dive right on in and enjoy. Aint life great. Have a really great day today.

Hey Smartie, isn't it getting to be time to close up this here bar and move on down the line a bit.

 

OT, I luv ya.
Will y'all just look at that spread?

 

Why thank ya darlin. I couldn't think of a better bunch of nuts to share this with.

 

Not sure about pastries for breakfast....how about pasties instead?

 

You mean like having a 'World Series' in a sport that nobody else in the world really plays?

 

Sounds good to me. When do we eat?

 

Your cost to fill up your car is not much more than what we pay to fill up our vehicle. It costs us about $60.00 to fill up. We average about 400 miles on a trip and short trips about 320 miles. So not much difference there.
Your dogs are beautiful and I can understand you having a vehicle to haul them around.

 

Cenydd, what's in the cans in front of the pasties?

 

Good Sunday afternoon, folks! Beautiful day in Big D... although it's still a little cool (49) but the sun's shining. Trees are finally turning... got some beautiful red oaks on my street, and a yard full of leaves from all the wind this weekend.

About those little cars, Ange... afraid I wouldn't feel too safe in one of those on our highways. And here ya go, Cenydd... #8 in the Top 11 Most Unique Roads in the World:



8. the high Five Interchange, Dallas, Texas

The High Five Interchange is a five-level freeway interchange, and is the first five-level stack interchange in Dallas. In 2006, American Public Association choose the interchange as one of “Public Works Projects of the Year.”

Highway driving NOT for the faint of heart!

 

Doesn't look like it changed much. Never bothered me to drive there, but if I should do it now, I'd probably die of a heart attack. Worst that happens around here is a combine jam on a country road.

 

Well shucks folks. Us poor old country folks only got one road. It goes right on through town. And I kid you not. Wait, I take that back. There is another road that will take you up over the pass into Idaho but that is it. Anything else and it will get to complicated here and start to confuse us poor old folks.