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Re: Chrysler to guarantee gas at $2.99 a gallon! For three y

Unread postby emersonbiggins » Tue 06 May 2008, 10:41:34

This is no different than the zero-percent financing racket that went down with the Big Three a couple years back. This might be nice for consumers wanting to hedge the price of fuel, though, and you can better believe that I'd be filling up some extra tanks littered in the bed in the Hemi Ram. 8)
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Re: Chrysler to guarantee gas at $2.99 a gallon! For three y

Unread postby Dreamtwister » Tue 06 May 2008, 14:04:36

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', 't')hey rather have $1500 in gas than $1500 in cash.


So would I. gas has value.
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Re: Chrysler to guarantee gas at $2.99 a gallon! For three y

Unread postby jdumars » Tue 06 May 2008, 14:33:20

Am I the only one here who heard this news and thought "WTF??? $2.99??? That is supposed to be cheap???"

This may be the first sign of PO-induced cognitive dissonance on my part. I can't process how the general public can feel like this is normal. Are people completely blind to what is happening around them? And all our illustrious government and candidates can come up with is "crush OPEC, drill ANWR, plant corn, mine coal"

We are so completely fux0red.
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Re: Chrysler to guarantee gas at $2.99 a gallon! For three y

Unread postby joeltrout » Tue 06 May 2008, 14:37:37

When I bought my 07 Tahoe in 2006 they had a special in which they paid the amount over $2.99 for 1 year. It was great because gas never got below $2.99 here in my part of Los Angeles so all I paid was $2.99 and GM paid anything above that.

I wish that last for more than a year because now I am paying $4.09

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Re: Chrysler to guarantee gas at $2.99 a gallon! For three y

Unread postby TWilliam » Tue 06 May 2008, 14:42:22

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dreamtwister', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', 't')hey rather have $1500 in gas than $1500 in cash.


So would I. gas has value.


Not for long. Try starting your lawnmower with that can of leftover from last year...
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Re: Chrysler to guarantee gas at $2.99 a gallon! For three y

Unread postby frankthetank » Tue 06 May 2008, 16:33:04

Fords offering the new F150 with a pallet full of Basmati rice.
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Chrysler promises $2.99/gallon

Unread postby Grimnir » Mon 19 May 2008, 19:10:55

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Re: Chrysler promises $2.99/gallon

Unread postby Cashmere » Mon 19 May 2008, 20:44:01

Message - SELL Chrysler stock!
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Re: Chrysler to guarantee gas at $2.99 a gallon! For three y

Unread postby AlterEgo » Tue 24 Jun 2008, 18:21:48

Because it's all about the oil.
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Re: Chrysler to guarantee gas at $2.99 a gallon! For three y

Unread postby emersonbiggins » Tue 24 Jun 2008, 18:36:09

That's the most hilarious thing I've read all year. :lol:
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Re: Chrysler to guarantee gas at $2.99 a gallon! For three y

Unread postby Ferretlover » Tue 24 Jun 2008, 18:42:53

Very funny!
I bought gas yesterday (first time in a month), and decided I would save the receipt. Might make for an interesting discussion one day! :)
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Re: Chrysler to guarantee gas at $2.99 a gallon! For three y

Unread postby Denny » Tue 24 Jun 2008, 21:57:20

Its so funny, and as with real humor, it has such an aura of truth contained in it.
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Re: Chrysler to guarantee gas at $2.99 a gallon! For three y

Unread postby Munqi » Wed 25 Jun 2008, 14:05:35

They say that these things are a complete scam.

Why? Dont know and dont really care. I wont be buying a chrysler anytime soon. :P
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Re: Chrysler to guarantee gas at $2.99 a gallon! For three y

Unread postby oswegatchie » Fri 27 Jun 2008, 10:48:58

Let's Refuel America may as well be "Let's Make Saudi Arabia Richer Than It Already IS". I'd Like to know how this is going to refuel America?
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Re: Chrysler to guarantee gas at $2.99 a gallon! For three y

Unread postby Fiddlerdave » Fri 27 Jun 2008, 15:33:23

What do you get if we go to war with Iran and there is no gas at all, or we get 5 gallons per week ration coupons? That's a short drive in a Tahoe.
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Newsweek: Chrysler, R.I.P.

Unread postby cualcrees » Fri 31 Oct 2008, 22:58:34

"It's an ignominious end for the company of Lee Iacocca and once-hot models like the Dodge Viper, PT Cruiser and the Hemi 300C. Daimler, which paid $36 billion for Chrysler in 1998, put a fitting coda on its investment last week. It valued its remaining 20 percent stake in Chrysler at zero."

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Re: Newsweek: Chrysler, R.I.P.

Unread postby frankthetank » Fri 31 Oct 2008, 23:08:14

Currently i don't think you could give me any Chrysler product. They are the standard for junk.

although...

[dream]I wish i had one of those old "Road Runners" with the 440 sixpack and the hood that popped up when you gunned it. Just one day is all i would need and about $500 in gas and at least 3 sets of tires (1ply). You can't imagine the burnouts i'd do in that, the smoke i'd create, the girls with their tops of screaming my name as i let that rear end loose... [/dream]
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Re: Newsweek: Chrysler, R.I.P.

Unread postby Daniel_Plainview » Fri 31 Oct 2008, 23:14:16

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '"')Chrysler as we know it will cease to exist very soon," says auto consultant Kimberly Rodriguez of Grant Thornton, which predicts half of Chrysler's 14 factories will close. *** So why would GM want a worthless automaker? Well, it certainly isn't about Chrysler's cars. It's about the cash. Chrysler said it had $11.7 billion in the till this summer, and GM desperately needs that money to survive. It also wants to get rid of one of its crosstown rivals so it doesn't have to match the outrageous rebates Chrysler puts on its models any more. "The real reason GM is doing this is to get their hands on that cash," says auto economist Sean McAlinden of the Center for Automotive Research, "and to put their competitor down. It's called 'buying the business.' In that way, you save GM."


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Re: Newsweek: Chrysler, R.I.P.

Unread postby Kristen » Fri 31 Oct 2008, 23:31:00

Well I guess we'll have to take Chrysler out back and shoot er right in the head. 1 down two more to go. :P
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Re: Newsweek: Chrysler, R.I.P.

Unread postby BigTex » Fri 31 Oct 2008, 23:42:57

I'm actually surprised that Chrysler is only valued at zero. I would have thought it would represent a huge net liability with many claims from creditors, retirees, landlords, dealerships, parts manufacturers, etc.
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