Yea, my jeep gets 12, wife's truck gets 10. Both are paid off.

We did the calcs based on 3.50 a gallon, using our mileage we drive a year.

To break EVEN, we got to buy a $13,000 car that got 28 MPG. Obviously, a little more mileage meant a hair more money to spend, but remember this is the BREAK EVEN point.  So really we were looking at driving a used POS buzzbox to save what we would spend on a bottle of wine at dinner.

No, I don't like spending $70 a fill up vs $50, but it isn't the end of the world either (they canceled the whole global warming thing) 

Man, isn't this the truth. I remember with Jan and I were younger and we had a bitchin blazer that was so damn cool. It was even the first in town to have Radials as big as 12.50's by 33's. That thing was sick but being younger we listened to all the hype in the 70's about fuel prices and gave it away wth less than 30K on the clock and bought a pisser.  Now when I think back at what the price of that pisser was and how much we both took it in the ass to "unload" that blazer, I kick myse cuz I could have bought enough gas to get me into the 80's.  Now 30 years later they're trying to do it to us again and I'm not gonna do it. Give away a damn good truck and then pay up the butt for a pisser just to save some gas mileage. The math doesnt jive to pay top dollar for a pisser and give away a good truck.
With that said, I sure am glad Jan and I had a chance to come south last year and actually meet Rhonda, Josh and Ol what's his name in person...

As far as the Global Warming thing, It pretty much has snowed every damn day for a week...... Didn't amount to much but "warming" implies....warm and it certainly isnt that up here.  We should be turning the corner and yet I had to scrape the windows again this moring...