What Happens When Gas Runs Out
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- Опубликовано: 9 мар 2022
- The 1973 gas crisis didn’t just mean prices at the pump spiked. It meant a sea change in how Americans thought about their relationship with cars, and how U.S. auto manufacturers designed them. Luxury and V-8 dominance had been the signifiers of car culture for a generation, but suddenly, fuel-sipping economy and the nimble joys of compact imports had changed the game. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the old dogs of Detroit didn’t exactly knock their first experiments in competing out of the gate.
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@@Clubloosedriftguy here in europe its getting more expencive than ever, here in Portugal its 2.10 for a litre of gasoline, and our minimum wage is 705€ a month so yeah we are fucked
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Great Video! Also as a German or well anyone from over here, US Gas Prices atm are still cheap compared to here. Just to give Americans in the Comments an Idea:
I paid 2.10 euro (2.42 USD) for 1 liter (0.25 gallons) here a few days ago.
Which means over here 1 Gallon of Gasoline is almost 10 USD
This is why you never vote for democrats even if you've seen 6 years of propaganda all of which was proven to be lies. This is a stupidity tax on the people for being fooled and electing criminal dems again with the help of the cemetery of course
During the 1973 gas crisis, I was and worked at a gas station. Unlike most of the gas stations in the area, we had gas. We were receiving 9000 gallons per day and had a line 1/4 long. My best friend was shift manager. He designated one island for fleet vehicles and took kick-backs from the fleet owners. I worked the island and got a dollar of 2 tip from every driver. For a brief period I was making more money than my father.
"I was and worked at a gas station" How was the transition from gas station to human? Lol
@@kyleoden3015 hi Kyle Oden.
Hopefully your father has better syntax
@@tomchillen3039 you beat me to it🤣
@@kyleoden3015 times where different back then, you wouldn't understand;)
I have been waiting for this one for so long, literally in the middle of every episode of up to speed “and then the gas crisis happened…”
ON GOD
There is no crisis but fear Russia would team up with its buds to short the prices. Or overwhelm supply.
🇬🇧 has lots of oil feilds it hasn't even started tapping yet. Inc the Falklands.
🇬🇧 always had expensive petrol ⛽or refined petroleum not a gas.
🇺🇸 but the the the engine turns the liquid into a gas dummie so its gas 🤷
🇬🇧 no you fun boy you the engine vaporizers the liquid into a mist a vapour. Still not a gas.
@@TrollingHistory I'm sure you know this but gas is short for gasoline and its history goes back to a British inventor john Cassell. He marketed cazeline as a powerful means of artificial light and someone else sold a knockoff called gazeline in the 1860s.
That's actually true "and then the gas crisis happened" one of the most used phrases on the program
@@shevoy_000 about like Rob Pitts' famous line "let me stop this car story,to tell you another story" 😂
I’m 61 years of age and witnessed the entire epoch.
Your selection of wave top events in characterizing course changes is as worthwhile as any -
MOREOVER all amusingly and memorably conveyed.
Thank you
how old are you
@@sagargupta1827able When did the war of 1812 happen?
@@NitwitMN you legend 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😂😂😂😂
I remember paying $1.09 a gallon after 9/11. My 93 Toyota Tercel (4 speed stick shift) was full with $13-$14. I got 35 mpg city, 45 mpg highway and 60 mpg coasting down the road!!! Times have changed
I drive a 2012 Toyota Yaris 5 speed manual stick shift, used to fill it up with $ 26. Todays price $ 38 a 9 gallon tank. 360 Mike range.
@@xcaret-ns3pb Damn that's tough
I remember 'gas wars' between stations, and the lowest price I personally saw was $0.19, yes 19 cents per gallon. We would pull in with our big 1968 Chrysler Newport and fill from EMPTY for LESS than $5
How is it now cause here it's about 2.7 dollars for 1/5 of a gallon my Subaru Forester from 05 is a bit thirsty now
If only gas was still 19 cents today😓
Damn the lowest I ever seen a gas price is 0.99 per gallon...🤦♂️
I remember those days too and i had a 68 Newport with a 383. Those where the days!
Currently $3.70/gal for premium at a PA costco
Considering our current situation with gas prices today, the timing of this Up to Speed couldn’t have been better.
History repeats itself.
Great to know I turned 18 at a great time 🙃
Why do you think they uploaded it now?
@@alecvip7562 have fun. It sucks. Live and have fun before it all runs out
Indeed
So funny, we here in germany pay now around 2.10 Euro per liter - converted to american units: 8.38 per gallon. And thats for E10 Gas - so the lowest grade gas you can get here. Shell ultimate or something like that is 9.89 dollar per gallon. Gas crisis seems pretty chill compared to todays standard
how much was your permit to be allowed to comment on youtube?
Rw shut up respect the man
@@Rw-bt1iz $200, plus a 5% overall tax raise
It amazes me we haven't learned our lesson on domestic energy production. Well, some of us have. It IS possible to go "greener" and be energy independent. We don't have to pick just one. Very relevant episode and I'm sure our current situation is just getting started and will be talked about years down the road like the past oil crisis.
Good luck with dat
@@matiasfpm France wishes to speak
@@devontaelafleur3841 about nuclear energy? Yup. Greener, but not THAT greener for teh librulz
It would be nice to go green but it can t happen overnight. No charging stations. Nobody can afford these expensive E cars except rich people. Our country is the only one going green what s the point? Its a mess!
@@nancyhomick7276 Absolutely! I completely agree my friend. Calling this a mess is an understatement.
That's pretty cool that donut media sends James to neat places like Egypt and Saudi Arabia to film an episode.
Fake lols
@@ryanlemons3255 figured that one idiot that can’t read sarcasm would be here. Thanks for not disappointing.
Even sent him back in time, too!
@Orcwithaspork i was there definitely real i can vouch in.
@@ryanlemons3255 bro it’s real. I was on the flight with him.
I think the "oil crisis" of the '70s should have taught everyone about energy independence. But times get good, people forget...
It's even worse now. We're not even manufacturing independent. Hell, lots of food is imported. The US is screwed as soon as the world wants us to be.
We were energy independent a year and a half ago
@@TheImtoomuch lol we make alot of food, lumber, and oil. Do you work in production?
@@TheImtoomuch The U.S. Is the biggest exporter of food in the world. What the fuck else do you think that massive great plains region we have is doing?
@@Mika-ph6ku we import food that we can produce here.
I own a 83 gmc with the 6.2L diesel that James was taking about. It’s actually not a bad engine it’s gutless but it has tons of torque. And it’s pretty reliable
Um isnt the 6.2 a detroit?
The 6.2L diesel is not the same as the 5.7 Oldsmobile diesel at all.
My son found a '94 F250 4x4 ext cab with a rebuilt 7.3 IDI Diesel and a rebuilt tranny. Paid $3k for it about a year ago. He gets 20+ mpg in town. 24+ in the highway. It'd be better if he didn't drive at 75+ mph. Not bad for a beast of a truck.
@@robedmund9948 Well.. It depends who you are asking? I think that is pretty much. I have 2 cars. One is wolkswagen polo 1,4 turbodiesel. It takes abaut 4 litre for 100km. It is same as 60 miles for gallon. I have allso audi a6, V6 turbodiesel, and that one takes something like a 15-20 litres to 100km. And thats the same as 12 miles per gallon. There is a difference. When diesel costs here abaut 2,25€ per litre, I choose the polo.
@@robedmund9948 my 2012 diesel passat gets like 40 mpg in the city lmao
My granddad took my dad and rest of their family on a roadtrip up and down the East Coast during the gas crisis. He didn’t really care and just found sketchy places to buy gas lol
To be fair, GM's cylinder deactivation still sucks today.
So does ram
@@The412Devil I heard Ford is doing it with their V8s now too. Nobody is safe.
It’s really good in the C8.
Imagine how much worse it was when it was just de-activating the injectors, not decompressing the cylinders like AFM tho.
@@TheLouisianan I think it's a good concept the but both chevy and dodge are know for valvetrains issues already. Then they try to add a smart lifter
We still haven't learned that buying fuel from foreign countries that we don't like (or they don't like us) still puts us in at a huge disadvantage to power our cars and country. I would have liked to think we'd learn from the 70's but we dropped the ball, and we are re-learning that lesson and paying for it again!
The United States in a net producer of oil….
Accurate!!
@@adamhayden5152 Not anymore... hence why the language changed to "energy" if you go back and listen in.
Sadly that's just not how it works though, and this is not just an U.S thing every single country with a "power grid" including north korea the literal isolationist state relies on outside sources of oil/energy among many other things.
It's not that we haven't learned as citizens. It's that politicians have no obligation to serve the best interests of the country anymore. If the pipeline would have been finished we would be in better shape. Biden doesn't lay down the pipe Trump did. But it's all a joke anyways because once the country went off the gold standard the consent of the governed vs the governing went out the window.
My grandpa still has a running 82 diesel olds in mint condition sitting in a garage. Its nice to have a "prestigious" piece of automotive history in the family.
I love this channel. Just keeps getting better.
ABOUT TIME! You’ve opened up this story arc, let’s talk about the malaise era and how we rebounded from that dark period in terms of automotive engineering and design
Any american car that doesnt have a huge V8 or isnt a giant pickup truck sucks lol
FJB
Haha, yep I'll never forget riding in my dad's malaise Buick with the BROWN velour, while he complained about how gas was going to be over $1 a gallon soon!
@@NoNORADon911 based profile name
@@anydaynow01 BROWN! A fellow RCR fan, I see. Nice!
"Pinto: Leaves you with a Warm Feeling." -- A real Ford advertising slogan.
Was it really?
@@CrimsonKage - Yep. And the Chevrolet "Nova" translates into "Doesn't Go" in Spanish.
@@pacificostudios Nova translate to "Not going" 🤣as in "we're Not going to make it to the gas station. The "Doesn't go" was normal haters changing the meaning of words to show how much they love their brand of cars/trucks.
Damn bro
That's...pretty sick considering internally Ford knew the car was prone to bursting into flames in rear-end collisions.
It'd be super time sensitive but would love one of these comparing mpg/fuel regulations around the world with current/future targets.
Bruh James braking the table and the the up to speed intro mixed together was freaking awesome!
The weird thing about Ford and GM finding it hard with fuel economy is that they had Ford of Europe and Opel/Vauxhall who could have helped them.
Whilst the Pinto was blowing up, maybe they should have imported some Mk1 Escorts and Fiestas?
Yea. I drove a Suzuki Reno and they are a Daewoo Nubira with a Corsa 2.0 engine. Really fuel efficient and endearing car.
They did import them. I had one. Amazingly unsafe by modern standards.
@@paul5683 oh yea didn't the escorts have that engine shut off thing when it hits bump as a safety feature
We did have the fiesta (just not until the 80s and not really the same car). It was just cheaper to rebadge Japanese cars than to completely change all the tooling and casts required for manufacture
@@georgepacheco9983 Yup, I remember having to go into the back of my Escort and resetting the Fuel cutoff safety switch a few times. Later models didn't have that issue.
Donut: Reviews older cars
Car asking price: Goes up
Donut: Talks about gas
Gas prices: ...
Those things were already in play, Donut just knows what's trendy at the moment.
I need to tell them details about my bank account
@@Spikeg7 hi SpikeGreen.
@@baronvonjo1929 yes. I got it.
Donut does not influence car prices 🤡
I like to rock the Joy of Cars Tee with the Cars are Pain hat and a Gas Crisis lapel pin. Really sums up the conundrum.
I recently discovered this channel by pure luck, its absolute GOLD!!!!! Thank you for existing!!!
Going to need an oil crisis world tour part 2 shirt lol. Still waiting for the ford maverick up to speed
COMEBACK STAGE!!!!
@@mycosys here's everything to know about The 1970's oil fuel crisi story.
Too bad for didn't bring back the car version of the Ford Maverick.
@@kskip4242 agreed 100%. It had classic lines and sold very well, ask anyone older they all seemed to have one or had someone close that did. The new one, much like the bronco sport it shares a platform with, is just very very meh… just boring as hell and unattractive. But I’m not an urban youth with a rooftop garden so I’m not the target audience. That’s what I got from all the commercials anyway lol. They could have even went with the original premise of the car, a cheaper more efficient rwd entry mustang. Make it rwd, coupe, and give it the ecoboost (which I’m not a fan of but still) and make it a cheaper mustang basically and have it compete win the BRZ and Toyota 86 category. There’s barely any competition in that sector and nothing from the Americans. I think they’d sell well enough. Those cars were a huge hit and sell really well according to how short of time they spend on the lots, even used lots they sell very very fast.
Wonder if we'll see the end of the SUV craze with this crisis if it gets bad enough
One can only hope...
The silver lining
If history is any guide, when gas prices get high enough people will abandon SUVs en masse and the resale value of those SUVs will plummet
Value of my Fiesta ST is just going up, and up, and up.
I'd like to hope. Aside from the gas guzzling problems, aren't there safety problems as well?
IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOREVER!!!
If gas runs out I will never sell these precious artworks
Almost 50 years ago we learned how bad it is to be dependent on foreign oil. Fast forward to today and someone thought it was a good idea to reduce domestic production. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Except, we the people are the ones suffering.
Wait a minute!!! Wasn't biden around 50 years ago???
@@daveyoung3857 It was Clinton pushing globalization more than Biden. Biden was busy trying to galvanize public support by jailing more black americans at the time.
@@svnpointsixtwo1436 we are buying from the Russians and Venezuela. Uncle Joe's kid is all connected to the eastern block. Its just a conspiracy theory so I don't really know, but I'm convinced that they are literally working for our enemy's.
Dude, let it go. We’d lead the world again if we could figure out renewables
@@macdurden412 N U C L E A R
Great topic, I love when Donut does broader history where cars are a major factor. Keep up the good work!
Gas going up has nothing to do with gas running out💀😂😂😂
This history lesson makes more sense than the ones when I was in school
James living the life out here traveling the world for one video 🔥🔥
UP TO SPEED ON THE OIL CRISIS, *FINALLY!*
Theres no oil crisis, just war profiteering privatized oil and gas industries failing to reallocate resources in fear of losing out on a bit of profit.
@@ryanthompson3737 yes, an oil crisis
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@@marcusrichards6117 there is no oil crisis, period.
@@TheImtoomuch A political crisis that happens to involve oil?
My father told me with these outrageous gas prices, We might as well take a loan for gas and ride tricycles or bikes around town.
What’s the loan for if you’re riding bikes
@@jacobpie3692 a joke
Bought an ebike. Hybrid car broke down. Hybrid brake parts = expensive. Many x's more expensive than filling up an ebike battery (+/- 30 cents/night). Scrapped hybrid. Built custom ebike. Beat everyone driving around town. Scared Karens. Got in shape. Learned how to carry all my groceries. Now I talk to girls on their bicycles. They come up to me. Ebikes are cool. Cars are cages.
@@journeyman1126 Im planning on strapping a 49cc 2 stroke kit to my city bike. Should get me great MPG for just 200 bucks.
An E bike is not only slower, but around 1000 bucks more expensive AND we dont have almost any electric infraestructure here.
So homemade scooter it is
@@journeyman1126 Sounds great and all, but I live 38 miles each way from work (by choice, I love it out there and am nearing retirement). I live in the country, and work in the city. It takes me over an hour each way as it is. I don't think I am brave enough to drive any type of a motorcycle or bike in the city. Hell, something like 5 of the last 7 cars I have owned have been totaled out by someone hitting me. Without that cage, I likely wouldn't be here writing about it...
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10:45 that jeanterior though
As a kid growing up In The 90’s I remember my parents could fill up their truck 20-30 bucks! And that was 25 gallon tank. Pretty crazy… I filled up 25 gallons today and it was 100 bucks. Thankfully its a company truck and I get to take it home 😅
My ram cab chassis has either 40 or 45 gallon tank I don't remember. But yesterday I got to $150 and just stopped pumping.
Like the old quote if we allow the bank to control the money of the nation your kids will be born slaves
Now imagine, that in europe, a gallon of gas is around 9,5dollars. so...for 25gallons, you would pay around 235dollars here for the basic fuel, don't even get me started on premium. Thank god my car for example gets 10l/100km mileage, which is 23,5mpg. The tank is only 13gallons, so i fill up for 120 bucks.....you're welcome, i converted everything to illogical imperial format. cheers
After Sandy, I still remember the lines for gas in New Jersey. A lot of people said it reminded them of the 70s Oil Embargo. I can see the parallel.
All.of these guys are amazing. Even their ads are entertaining. Top tier entertainers the whole lot of em. I wish I was able to work on cars and bikes like I use to but I was hit by a drunk driver on my motorcycle a couple years ago and was injured pretty severely. I broke everything except my spine among other things.
My state says I don't even qualify for disability even though I can't walk anymore so life is pretty rough
I live in Sweden and right now there is a gas crisis, as of right now (march 10th) it's nearly 9.8USD/Gallon of gasoline. Diesel is even worse with nearly 11USD/Gallon. What's worse is that it keeps rising by about 0.3 Dollars a day💀
Same in france
I’m Saudi oil price is 2 dollars a gallon
But Europe doesn’t have any oil they need to import all of it
Okq8 ökade ju bensinpriset med typ 150 öre sist, very nice
I feel you man.. We’re in the shit too here in Finland 👎🏻
Same everywhere :( same in the UK it's scary how fast it's climbing. £1.61 a litre today where I am. That means about $9.60 a gallon.
That Oldsmobile diesel is also why small fuel sipping Diesel engines never caught on in America like they did in Europe
as an Oldsmobile owner other than that little hiccup with gm rushing them to put a diesel to market the 2nd Gen Olds V8s have been one the most reliable engines I've owned
That also means us europeans tend to have a completely different perspective of diesel from the us
I do find America’s love hate relationship with diesel very odd. For a country that is obsessed with burning fuel, high power/torque engines and doesn’t care about emissions relative to Europe it is weird that diesel didn’t take off.
It’s probably because it costs less to make. It’s why the British flogged to diesel. Then the government realised they were losing out on tax money and taxed the shit out of it making it more expensive than petrol. And now we’re at a medium where it’s more expensive but you get similar mpg per unit cost for similar displacement engines
And you can make your own diesel at home
Somebody should swap a current Duramax into one of these.
my uncle was telling me about the Arab oil cut in 1973. I appreciate your quick yet detailed summary of multiple events
That is the kind of energy from the intro I have been needing
this really hits home right now, given the current events and how they are driving up prices currently!
I hope someday someone will design a completely synthetic form of gasoline. I'm no expert with gasoline so I don't know if it's possible, I just know it's already been done with oil.
@@theonlyMoancore except the issue in the current situation isn't not being able to get the gas to meet demand, it's bullshit politics, and people for some reason don't want to produce our own oil here in the US, but for some reason think it's okay to buy gas from other countries. If we just dropped the politics, this situation wouldn't be happening.
@@dumpsterjedi9323 '' People for some reason don't want to produce our own oil here in the US, but for some reason think it's okay to buy gas from other countries '' That reason is called liberalism. It's not really worth producing oil in the US because the US does not have a comparative advantage in oil production. As such, the local oil price would be higher than the world price which means buying from other countries would be cheaper than buying local. Same reason why Canada has oil but imports nonetheless. It's not about understanding politics, you just don't understand economics.
@@dzelloIs that why the Keystone XL pipeline was cancelled-? Because its investors didn't understand the economics of Canadian oil sands?
@@dumpsterjedi9323 yeah but USA doesn't have slave labour so producing hydrocarbons is expensive.
Cadillac used the Olds Diesel in the Fleetwood as well. I remember a family member bought one. I was amazed that the price was $14,000 which was nearly 5 times what my dad paid for a car.
Love this channel so much dude
I liked the vid. It gave those who weren't alive at the time, some context along with the facts. But you missed something huge.
It was the fuel crisis that gave impetus for the speed limit being reduced to 55mph. We once were able to drive on many state and local highways at speeds only now can be driven on little more than major interstate systems.
We are going with over $2 a litre here in Australia right now as of 11th of march. Massive bummer!!! Great work as always Donut Team! Cheers from Melbourne!!
We are going over R$7 a litre here in Brasil, depending on which state you live in, it reached R$10 a litre, our best fuel is called podium (ferraris, lamborghinis and cars like that must be refueled with this fuel here in Brasil) and it maybe had reached R$20 a litre. Well, it’s time to move to electric cars and put some recording of nice sounding cars lol
Up here in NSW i seen premium hit $2.50/l yesterday ($9.45/G for the US folk). Maybe scotty from marketing can help us out at the pump by cutting those fuel excises.
@@TM-bg8lh you mean the fuel excises that the qld government pays for us, yet *somehow* nsw stations can still price match?
@@thomasa5619 yep :) i dont care labor liberal or clive i want it back at $1.50
Belgium 2.29/liter for diesel. 2,1/regular petrol. As of 11/03/22.
I remember when gas was .45 a gallon and we were outraged when it hit 72 cents!!!! Then it hit .89! Then $1.10. How odd they made this episode weeks before the current crisis
Man 45 cents. I'd have a car right now if gas was that cheap. Even a damn Corolla could be seen as a gas guzzler with these prices.
Weeks before?
Weeks before? ...We are in it right now, dum-dum
Being uploaded today this video was likely filmed and edited and waiting to be uploaded on Monday -Tuesday
Crisis started last year. Go Brandon!
Kool stuff guys. Good job. Thumbs up on this video
Great vid, didn't quite answer the question I was looking for though.
Bro y’all literally inspired me to write my last school report about the gas crisis. I’ve always heard James talking about it for years and this is WHERE I even heard about it in the first place. Love the video🤙🏽
We in India had Price of Petrol at ₹95 yesterday and today it is ₹115!!
And 95 is already too high, normally it's ₹60.
Same with Diesel. 😢
Its per litre so multiple it by 4 for a gallon
Blame Russia for it.
@@saswatsethi2739 We are
@@saswatsethi2739 Blame the politicians for imposing an embargo on russia.
@@TheSuperBoyProject Yeah, no. Russia has started a literal war.
@@propellergarage even though i dont support russia starting an all out war, they were still pushed to taking that extreme step by the us and nato
Good video!!!! Very educational!
12:50 basically the so hated Ecoboost on the mustang. Pretty amazing engine.
Prices for non-premium gas have reached 2.30€/L here in germany where I live, that's over $9.50 per gallon. it's inane.
Welcome to Germany.
Where the government kinda wants to force people at gunpoint to go to work by bicycle.
Not that it's bad to try to do something about the whole environment fiasco...
But sometimes the people who are pressing forward on the "green train" don't completely think through their stuff
In Italy the methanol ha reached 10.50$ per gallon, the gas reached 9$
Their gas is subsidised. Your public transport, healthcare, decent education etc are. Who you think wins, even now?
@@mycosys I pay shitloads of money for the healthcare every month and Germany has the 2nd highest taxes in the world, right behind Belgium. No, we're not even. You got no idea how good you have it over in America. Even cars built in Germany are way cheaper in the states, comparing prices without taxes of course. In terms of purchasing power Europeans got way less than you folks.
@@cy9nvs Yeah most americans and even some europeans don't seem to realize europe isn't some kind of heaven of free everything. Yeah, you have free healthcare on paper, but in reality you'll be going private for anything more serious than a toothache. We have some better labor laws, but our spending power is still less and quality of life is only high in the richest of western european countries, while the rest of us scrape the bottom of the barrel
These videos makes our days better
**owns a Tesla**
"I fail to see how that's my problem"
Only when you have to eventually pay 20 to 35k to replace the batteries...and take 6 to 12hrs to charge🤣
Great history! Well done!
I feel like we were already up to speed with how often this is mentioned, but it’s still nice to have an official episode on it.
I always enjoyed watching and listening to James Pumphrey tell stories. Funny yet very interesting, very trivial..thanks @Donut Media
James, I love all the DONUT shows. Being a Kentucky boy with an all numbers matching 70 SS Monte Carlo, I Love The Kentucky Sweatshirt. Keep up the great shows. Also as a doctor, I'm glad you have quit smoking. Stay healthy my friend. The car world needs you!
Amazing and informative video! Will be subscribing.
We should all try to be more efficient drivers in times like these to keep prices in check collectively. Chill out, keep your speed up, keep your revs down, time lights and just avoid braking as much as you can. I guarantee you can alter your driving and see huge improvements in your fuel bill regardless of what you drive. Find your vehicle's highway rated fuel economy and aim to beat it on every drive. That is your mission should you choose to accept it...
So true. Make traffic lights a game. Coast early and time it right, you scoot on bye the other drivers and barely use any go juice. And treat RPMs like golf and keep the score low as possible.
No, thanks! If the government cared about fuel efficiency they wouldn't install a new stop sign or traffic light at every new housing development.
I've been driving efficiently for 2 weeks now and it's so painful but it's saving my wallet
You have a pretty binary relationship with your gas pedal, don't you? Driving efficiently might help you learn some fine throttle control if anything. Give it a try! The real Jesus would...
@@kiefershanks4172 binary? LOL WTF this is a video about cars not weird sex change shit. I think the word you are looking for is digital. Throttle control would be analog. SMH
Day 307 of asking Donut to bring old B2B back
@James - We love you brotha. I think I speak for many when I say, we want to see you on this show for a long LONG time. Hope you're well and taking care of yourself
At the 11:20 mark, there was an advertisement about the new Ford Explorer, after he bashed Ford for their exploding vehicles. How fitting.
I really enjoyed Jame’s mood this episode in particular, and very well written, too. Per usual
I'm so happy that Up To Speed is slowly going back to its old format. The past few episodes felt like an extension of D-List. Keep up the good work, James. I love you, too man, with or without homo.
That intro with the table breaking actually made me laugh out loud.
Good video, very informative 👍
I’d like to leave a moment of silence for those v8 owners rn 😪
GMC 2500 XLT gas engine.
You have no idea :,)
Yah Starting to realize a classic v8 truck wasn't a best car for me to drive during the 2nd oil crisis
And Biden voters who voted for this
My brother is currently trading in his Silverado, less than 100K miles, because he just can't stomach it.
I knew he was sitting there watching gas prices just getting rock hard with the history of this channel.
9:17...That's one of my beloved Herbie Generation(1958-1963) bugs! (wind-up key N/A)
After being in the petroleum industry for the last 30 yrs. I can tell you that we have oil wells
producing 10,000 barrels a day. We have leases that have not been explored yet. But with this Administration
has caused all the delays. This Administration shutdown anymore development in natural gas and oil wells.
Where do you think the products come from mining those resources? We need heavy equipment running on
diesel and gas to get those products to make those batteries? California had also proposed not plugging in your
vehicles because the demand is great. The power grid is slowing down. We have resources for next 140 yrs in the
ground by that time will have an alternative to power and energy.
I just walked by a gas station here in Finland. Diesel was about $9.70 per gallon. Gas was a tad cheaper at $9.35 per gallon. Pure madness.
So about 2,56$ per litre in Norway a few days ago it was 3$ or 27NOK per litre for diesel.
I love donut media man, you guys put out such good quality funny informative videos. Keep it up
This was funny as hell. Also informative
The lincoln constantly sitting in the back like “hey what about me?” is gold
Every up to speed is great, but this one was perfection. Keep up the good work donut crew
Great video as always. Good point about fuel being a national security risk. We are seeing something of that right now, pretty much all over the planet.
Underrated comment.
People need to free themselves from being such slaves to the pump. Alternatives are plentiful. Some people cover their ears and put the blinders on, choosing to stay stuck and susceptible to the direct effects of oil dependency.
Much like a drug, the dealer controls you and can raise the prices based on your dependency. And some people continue choose to keep killing themselves over this dependency. It’s not the dark ages. They have choices, but complain and blame others about the choices THEY made and continue to make.
What a fitting time for this video
this week has felt like the longest week of my life
This video was awesome, would love to see more like it.
Man, I love my 5.7L v8 hemi. But with it being 15 years old it only gets 13 -ish mpg. Now with gas getting to be $5 a gallon where I live... 27 gallons is $135. Ouch
your kidding right?? 135, holy shit
Same
That's what it costs to fill up my 1.6 VW now xD (Europe, 50 litres btw)
I’ve got the 5.9L 360, when I drove a v6 my tank was always close to full but now I drive that and it’s barely went over 1/2 tank since prices went up
5$ a gallon is pretty cheap. In Portugal it's already about 8,65$ and going to 10$ a gallon very soon I imagine. Next week it will do up by almost a dollar. It's insane
Great video!
No gas? Easy, ethanol. The Original Gas for tractors
Now I know why I have suffered with my 2012 Honda Fit for 10 years. The only sound financial decision I have ever made. The truck and full size SUV drivers have got to be crying right now.
I am
It depends if it's powered by a diesel. That's why in Europe we don't have huge engines and use diesel cars, it's cheaper
Ikr. I'm tired of these big ass cars, I swear half of em here act like dickheads and park/drive horribly. It's like they're compensating for something, they wanna be big "intimidating" or cuz their short lol (jk I don't care about height).
Most trucks and suv's get better mpg than my 4 cylinder car lol
@@ianholmquist8492 how much does it weight? Also, you redline it often?
I did not expect you to punch the table in half in the beginning lmao that effect was incredibly well done
Super Great effect!!! I cracked up at that part!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣♥️♥️♥️
in 1972 i was making $1.25 an hour at mcdonalds. gas was .25 cents a gallon i could go most of the week for 75cents on my motorcycle. i thought 14 dollars to fill up my mercury land yacht was a lot. now 70 dollars to fill up my car seems unreal. after 1973 muscle cars and land yachts were cheap. i still have a muscle car i bought back then, 1969 mustang fast back for 500 dollars. life was good. you could get a nice land yacht for 100 dollars. life was good
That white '73 Cadillac coupe was some bad ass machine...at least we have some vids of good rides.
Large cars. V8s. High power. Excessive consumption. Long ago, those four were the cornerstones of American Automobiles.
Then, everything changed when the fuel crisis happened...
Heh. I see what you did there 😏. Very nice
Americans are so short sighted, complain about rent and buy trucks
That's why in Europe we use diesels sedans and have smaller engines. In the USA most of the cars are like 3.7 V6's and most of them are gasoline powered engines, so... Yeah. Not to mention the diesel engines of the Semis are worse than the European lorries since they still use diesel V8's instead of Inline 6 engines. So yeah, I think it's the good time to bring the real diesel to America.
Wish I could give 2 thumbs up for the reference very nice 👌
If they want electric cars, make better accessible cheap options, or stop signing bs bills and make gas cheaper, the government needs to pick a struggle omfg
Bicycles quickly looking like not such a bad idea after all 👀
Never Were
@@fishworldaquariums6741 Facts, and it's a good exercise
@@CloroxGodThe1st Well, not on muh eBike. It's like minimum exercise. Which is my preferred kind.
Road bike = like jogging & an existential crisis caused by absolute misery crammed into your asscrack and thighs
BMX = like playing football in the yard. Short sprints between a lot of standing around and a possible injury
750w eBike = like going for a long walk, but more fun. Because it's illegal to ride a motorcycle through the park
Biking over 30 miles to your job sounds terrible.
71% of Americans over 20 are overweight or obese. We could use it.
Great episode peeps!!
Whoop whoop to that faygo bit
Any day donut posts it simply makes me happy
Donut Media: Get up to speed on the gas crisis!
Me: so....the first one....or this one?
That Pump Dump joke was S tier 😂
This is special. I really want to see another special about James's dad. *Loveyou