A friend sent me this and I thought it deserved sharing! Enjoy. ♥

[CaliforniaPeggy]

[elleng]

1. LOL! OMG! WTF!!!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. That was exactly my reaction too!

[DFW]

3. With gas hovering between $9 and $10 here

The next round of receipts will include a simple FU.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Alas, that could very well be true, my dear DFW!

How can something be funny and awful at the same time?

No idea.

[Old Crank]

7. Vacation on Crete

My gas bill for the 9 day car rental could be more than the car rental cost with full insurance. We will see.

[DFW]

17. Crete is long, but not huge

You shouldn't be needing to drive any huge distances.

[Old Crank]

19. We are almost circumnavigating the island.

We went south to a small town on the coast the east to another but had to do a n almost complete backtrack. Then we go to near the east end before heading back to the car drop off in Chania. Taking 9 days.
Rental with insurance is only €150. gas is €2.28/L. It could be close.

[DFW]

21. I never saw the eastern part.

Only the west--Chania, then the Sa Maria Gorge and Paleochora, and then back up to Heraklion. We only had a few days. We took buses, never rented a car. It was 1981, and we didn't have much money. But my wife remembered some places from a previous visit, and the food was wonderful. The beaches were marred with tar deposits from passing ships, so that part was less than agreeable. Maybe they have cleaned that up in the meantime?

[Old Crank]

22. Beaches seem to be clean.

I was stationed east of Heraklion 1975-77. USAF station, Iraklion. Closed down in 1992. So I haven't seen much of the west end. This trip was with cyclists for the first 10 days. Now we are doing the south coast.

[Old Crank]

23. Results are in

The car rental, turned out to be a FiAT Tipo Cross. was with full insurance for 9 days was Euro 159.
Fuel for the driving turned out to be Euro 135.00. Cost of gas when I topped up to return the car was E 2.248 per liter.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. Where are you that gas is so high?

Here in Santa Fe it's a bit below $4.00 a gallon.

[DFW]

16. About 6000 miles to your northeast

German Rheinland, Düsseldorf area.

[Old Crank]

20. I'm traveling around Crete, Greece

We filled up and got 36 liters for €2.28/ L.
The 9 day rental, with full insurance, is €150.

[niyad]

5. Exactly.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Thank you, my dear niyad! ♥

[Rhiannon12866]

8. It cost me $62 to fill up Thursday here in New York, and I got a 30-cent-a-gallon discount

With my grocery card at Sunoco. And it's gone up 9-cents-a-gallon since Thursday. At least my mid-sized car takes regular and not diesel - which is $6.36-$6.49-per-gallon tonight.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. I hear you, my dear Rhiannon! I spent more than that on my Hybrid Toyota!

Normally I only fill up monthly--thank goodness!

[Rhiannon12866]

12. I pretty much revealed my age to the gas station guy

I told him that I remember the time that my cousin gave me a ride back to college. We stopped at a gas station on the highway and when she looked at the price, she said it was too expensive, that we'd better find another place - and I remember that it was 47-cents!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

14. Dear lord. How large a gas tank was involved?

My Honda Fit has a tiny gas tank, and I rarely put in as much as 8 gallons. Earlier today, I paid $29.94 for 7.502 gallons, at $3.959 per gallons.

And perhaps more to the point, what kind of mileage do you get?

[Rhiannon12866]

15. I have a 15 gallon tank on my Chevy Malibu

I paid $62 for the 15 gallons, and that's counting my 30-cents-off a gallon, the full price was $4.44-a-gallon, but with the discount it was $4.14. I didn't need a full talk so I got $7 change, so it ended up costing me $55 in the end. Since I wait to use my discount, I generally fill up when it goes down past a quarter full. I'm not sure of my mileage, but almost all my driving is local, rather than highway driving.

[mvd]

9. K&R - good one

It would be cute if it had a little reminder at the bottom: blame greedy companies, not President Biden.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. Thanks, my dear mvd! That's probably a good idea too. ♥

[planetc]

18. Right again, Peggy. It's a beauty!