$2.99 gas. GUARANTEED! The teevee just said so!

[Systematic Chaos]

I can... hardly... contain my... um... excitement? :eyes:

Yeah, so anyway, I'm sitting here with the TV on, and during a commercial break one of the dealerships here in town comes on with an ad promising guaranteed $2.99 gas for a certain period of time if you come buy one of their cars. And they had all these puppets almost like on Sesame Street, and people all google-eyed going "What are you going to do with YOUR savings? Why, I'm going to drive up to the MOUNTAINS this weekend!"

Someone just fucking shoot me now and put me out of my misery.

Do they really think people have forgotten that just two years ago $2.99 was our worst nightmare?

[babylonsister]

1. $2.99 sounds good now. nt

[roguevalley]

20. $4.24 where I live.

[ColbertWatcher]

27. You've seen this haven't you?

[RL3AO]

2. Its not just your dealership, its coming from the top of Chrysler.

[Systematic Chaos]

4. I thought I had heard something about that, now that you mention it.

Ah, well. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Kinda makes me glad I don't have a car. :P

[and-justice-for-all]

3. Oh gag!!! We have those fucking commercials here too..

They make me ill!!!!

Cheaper gas sounds fine, but a total electric vehicle is better!

[orleans]

5. i had to check to see if you were from illinois

i've been hearing that commercial on radio (i think) lately.

$2.99 if you buy a gas pig

what crap, eh?

[AlCzervik]

6. Dodge is running a big promo here as well about $2.99 gas, and the vehicle

their pushing is one of those land yacht sized trucks.

[dysfunctional press]

14. not just the big trucks...

THEY'RE offering it on most of their cars and trucks.

[Double T]

7. It is called BRAINWASHING.

The organized crime corporate criminals are conditioning YOU and ME to believe that the HIGH and HIGHER prices of EVERYTHING are OK. The RW corporate media will keep repeating it UNTIL WE believe it.

[htuttle]

8. Stop complaining!

The choco-ration has been increased from 30g to 25g this week!

[w8liftinglady]

9. so fuck them..let's ;\liv e together

[magellan]

10. We have the same commercial in FL

They're desperate to move their cars.

My favorite commercial by far of late has to be the Burger King "Indiana Jones" scratch card one. You could win a new Hummer! Yeah...no thanks.

[DCKit]

34. I think a Hummer is bigger than my apartment.

Guess I could always move into it, though I don't know how I'd afford the parking - or the gas if I had to move it more than twice a week.

[ColbertWatcher]

11. No kidding, and how are the dealerships able to do this?

Where are they getting the money?

Are they getting subsidies? Are we actually paying for this in the long run?

FSM, I hate oil whores.

[dysfunctional press]

15. it's not the dealerships- it's a sales promo by chrysler.

http://www.chrysler.com/en/refuel/index.html

[ColbertWatcher]

22. Okay, so how is Chrysler paying for it? n/t

[dysfunctional press]

23. how does any car company pay for their promotions?

:shrug:

they're apparently betting that gas won't crack $10 within 3 years- and they may be very wrong about that.

[KillCapitalism]

28. What happens if they are wrong?

I wonder if that will bankrupt them?

What a foolish gimmick.

[Nickster]

29. I'm sure there's some legalese in the agreement about terms being subject to change with or without

notice. There's always a loophole.

[datasuspect]

24. the frightening implication is that they seem

certain that we will never see gas lower than 2.99 for the foreseeable future

[dysfunctional press]

25. why is that "frightening"?

we WON'T see $2.99 gasoline EVER AGAIN. it's unfathomable to me that people don't see or understand that.

[datasuspect]

36. it's frightening because many, many people

will continue to make between 6-10 dollars per hour. it's frightening because the U.S. is so large.

we haven't had to use horses and buggies as primary modes of transport in my lifetime. there would be an initial shock, but i suppose a person could get used to it.

[dysfunctional press]

37. we won't be going back to horse and buggy days.

:eyes:

[ColbertWatcher]

26. That's a good point. n/t

[whopis01]

33. Car companies give rebates all of the time.

It is always just built into the price of the car. Now instead of getting $3000 cash back when you buy a new car or $3000 for anything you can push, pull, or drag onto the lot you will get a card that lets you buy 12,000 miles worth of gas a year for 3 years.

I'm sure they estimate that using their best mileage estimates so it is the fewest gallons... it really isn't that big of a deal.

[w8liftinglady]

12. i've rec'd you,...!!

[dweller]

13. This just came up in conversation w/ my daughter and i

last week as i was returning her from end of semester 3 yr. college. She brought up that she'd heard these commercials advertising $2.99 gas if buying a vehicle. Her question to me, rather innocently: Are carmakers and gas co's tied together??

i looked at her askance w/ raised eyebrows...waiting...waiting... and she put her head in her hands and said... 'oh i knew it anyway, just couldn't believe it would be so obviously blatant!'

this from the young woman who doesn't drive, takes public trans and walks everywhere, and only depends on me and her mother and sis and friends to make the driven hauls between. In her favor, she does keep busy w/ her schoolwork - Dean's List this whole year in Early Childhood Ed. .. but it was nice seeing the film lift from her eyes and we laughed at it. If just for the moment, it was funny. As the truth sunk in...

life is so much simpler in college, then the real test begins.
dp

[progressoid]

16. Yeah, yesterday I heard Hannity pimping some GM SUV

It got 21 MPG!!

WTF?? This is supposed to be a good thing? 21 MPG?

[Junkdrawer]

17. ...and our chocolate rations have been increased again!

:applause:

[enki23]

18. gotta unload those suckers (onto the suckers) somehow

hope they read the fine print.

[tblue37]

19. Most have forgotten. The attention span thing, you know.

People are busy trying to survive--or even just entertaining themselves. They aren't thinking, "$2.99 was our worst nightmare two years ago." They are thinking, "Wow, that's almost $2 less than I am paying right now--and if gas prices go up again, as they inevitably will, I can lock in even greater savings!"

[Bluebear]

21. The campaign is called: "LET'S REFUEL AMERICA"!!!11

http://www.chrysler.com/en/refuel/index.html

:eyes:

It should be "Let's re-fool America" into thinking this is anything helpful.

[Divine Discontent]

31. DUzy! refool! good 1! EOM

[Dukkha]

30. What would really be funny

is the deal is $2.99 for 3 years. What is President Obama in 1 year brings the average down to $1.99?

[Blue_In_AK]

32. $3.99 today in Anchorage

up from $3.89 yesterday. This is really insane.

[proud2BlibKansan]

35. A car dealer in this area is offering $250 worth of free gas or a gun

with every car purchased. And most of the customers are going for the gun.