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    I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?

    So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.

    But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.

    Not sure when this will take place, and I don't intend to give any further warning concerning the disabling of the Google Adsense. Just as there probably won't be any warning if I decide to close down this site. You will just come here and there will be some sort of message that the site is gone, and you have a nice day.

    I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.

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    Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.

    And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

How much does a tankful cost you?

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Friday, my teeny little Corolla cost $35 to fill up at the station. That is serious money: I remember tankfuls of gas for under $10 some years ago, and when I was younger, filling the Honda 175cc for a couple bucks

How much did it cost you last time you filled your vehicle at the service station?
 
$76 and that was when diesel was $2.479/gallon. It's now $2.999 here.
 
I usually don't wait until the tank is more than 3/4 empty before I fill up, but if it were, it would be $75-77 for the truck and $40-42 for the car (at yesterday's prices for premium.) Both of them can go about 400 miles on a full tank, so guess which one hasn't moved lately...


I think an interesting statistic would be how much it costs to drive say 10 miles. For my truck it would be about $1.90 and $1.03 for the car.
 
I was at half a tank this morning and seeing as i didn't want to stop tomorrow to get gas before work, i went today. At $1.25/litre (ya Canadian), $20 only got me up to around 3/4 of a tank........so $20 will only give me around a 1/4 tank of gas. I'm driving a Sunfire by the way.

Because i've been working at the big store, instead of the small one i was hired for........i'm now driving over an hour to work........costs me about $20 per trip. Seems i'm getting paid to drive to work......yay!
 
PaulSage said:
Both of them can go about 400 miles on a full tank, so guess which one hasn't moved lately...
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My fuel tank has a capacity of 34 gallons and normally I fill it when I need 25-28 gallons. This last time I took a bit over 30 gallons as I was late for the airport to pick up my daughter. I burned an additional 2-2.5 gallons getting there and fueled up after I got her. If I were to buy a "full" tank of 34 gallons it would currently be $112. A more typical fill up of 25-28 gallons would be $75-$84.

I can comfortably go 500+ miles between fill ups if need be.
 
$40 to fill our 12-gallon tank for our Ford Focus. Luckily for us we moved into town 2 years ago... we used to drive 45 miles one way just to get to work, so each day it was 90 miles round trip. Now it's probably 3 miles round trip.
 
Just got gas today, on an almost empty tank- $3.24/gallon, and it took about $38 to full up my Grand Am. If I had a horse, I'd ride it to work instead of driving!
 
Jim O said:
My fuel tank has a capacity of 34 gallons and normally I fill it when I need 25-28 gallons. This last time I took a bit over 30 gallons as I was late for the airport to pick up my daughter. I burned an additional 2-2.5 gallons getting there and fueled up after I got her. If I were to buy a "full" tank of 34 gallons it would currently be $112. A more typical fill up of 25-28 gallons would be $75-$84.

I can comfortably go 500+ miles between fill ups if need be.
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I used to have a '93 K2500 4X4 Suburban with a 44 gallon tank. ...glad I got rid of that. At today's prices it would cost around $140 to fill it, although it was able to hit 600miles/tank! I remember thinking it was absurd when I'd go to fill it and the pump would cut off at $50 if you were paying with a credit card. They've recently upped that limit to $100.
 
My truck hasn't moved since last Monday, and I parked it on a full tank so I haven't filled it up on the higher prices. A full tank would run about $45 now.
I've just been riding the bike everywhere thanks to the long overdue decent weather we're getting. Costs about $13 a tank for it and that gets me 180 miles.
 
$50
I'm glad I get atleast descent gas milage. This is insane. The reason we switched to petroleum from organic fuels in the earlier years is because it was cheaper and at the time very abundant. Obviously times have changed, I don't understand why we can't begin switching back to organic fuel. Not only would it save the consumer lots of money, but the industrial and agricultural economy would 'boom.' The country would be saving billions per year. The thing is.. bush wouldn't be getting so much money from his big hand in the oil...
 
45 bucks to fill my mazda protege and that gets me maybe 350 miles. This is crazy their estimating it'll be 5 dollars a gallon by the end of the year.
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I've been driving a 2002 Subaru Impreza 2.5RX since May 2002. The first time I went to the gas station to fill up, it cost me $20. I just filled up a couple days ago and it cost me $37.50 :no01:.

My car goes about 260 miles before needing to be filled up again and that lasts me for about a week. $37.50/week to drive... And that's why I started taking public transportation with a difference of approximately $24/week. I think I'll be doing this for a while until gas prices start going down again :>poke2<:
 
I HAD to fill up on Thursday, went to the cheapest station around, and paid $3.09 a gallon for the cheap stuff.

A few hours later, I had to take my son to get his hair cut for school pictures. so we drove the 18 miles to where he gets it cut.....and the station next door to the salon was $2.69. Just because we went over the Minnesota border (where it's USUALLY always higher!) I got ripped off by 40 cents a gallon.....I said some VERY unladylike words.
 
Prices have eased some here. Regular gasoline can be found for $2.80-3.05, and diesel for $2.75-$2.90. Premium gasoline can now be had for $3.00-$3.25.
 
My cousin just returned from Hawaii and the gas was $3.09, but what shocked her the most was milk costing $8.00 :bolt01:
 
Prices here have continued to come down but are still about $0.25 higher per gallon than before Katrina. Gasoline today was $2.599/$2.699/$2.799 (regular/mid-grade/premium). Diesel was $2.699.

I bought 29.863 gallons of diesel for $80.60. The guy in the pump in front of me was in an Excursion and bought 42+ gallons. Ouch!
 
The grocery store by me has an awesome deal. For every $50 you spend you get .10 of per gallon at their station. You can save it up to the price per gallon. I just put 30 gallons in for $45.00, $1.499 per gallon after my rebated $1.10 per gallon. Saved a cool $33.00 just buying groceries. Can't beat that.
 
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