http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/5/7/1088/94928 <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.chryslerllc.com/en/">Chrysler LLC</a> has a problem.  They have a whole bunch of fuel-inefficient pickup trucks, vans, and SUVs in their inventory and gas prices show no signs of retreating from the neighborhood of (US)$4.00 a gallon.  What the company needs is a way to make operating a gas guzzler attractive to the motoring public.  In a sort of "turning lemons into lemonade" way, Chrysler says it's <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/auto en-us Thu, 8 May 2008 06:25:35 EST Sat, 10 May 2008 21:01:19 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/5/7/1088/94928#9 Yeah, must be all the MTBE they put in the gas in all the rest of the country in 2003, right, right.<p> In addition to high taxes and low volatility limits which you also have in some other areas of the country, you also have high market concentration and Sat, 10 May 2008 21:01:19 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/5/7/1088/94928#8 Hey--don't knock the prius. There's never been a car more fun to cut off. Fri, 9 May 2008 19:05:13 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/5/7/1088/94928#7 My Opinion in 2 parts: <br> <ol><li>Anyone who buys a gas guzzling piece of shit from an American car company deserves whatever easily foreseen misfortune follows from that decision.  <br> <li>Any American car company that hasn't spent the last 5-10 ( Fri, 9 May 2008 15:57:40 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/5/7/1088/94928#6 <i>The State of California operates <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/analysis_publications/primer_on_gasoline_prices/html/petbro.html">its own reformulated gasoline program</a> with more stringent requirements than Feder Fri, 9 May 2008 14:14:18 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/5/7/1088/94928#5 <i>California and Hawaii, the rest of us feel your pain</i><p> I can't speak about Hawaii, but can someone explain to me why gas is so damn expensive in California?  I live less than 20 miles from a gigantic oil refinery, and yet my gasoline is among Fri, 9 May 2008 13:46:18 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/5/7/1088/94928#4 If they've studied the wetkarma school of economics, they expect the cost of gas to be under $2.99 within six months...making this an absolutely brilliant strategy today. Fri, 9 May 2008 12:40:17 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/5/7/1088/94928#3 My gf (who is a little pissed about this because she just bought a jeep last month) had a very good point--the chances that there will be a chrysler in 2-3 years to continue holding up this guarantee aren't fantastic. Money you don't have to pay out until Fri, 9 May 2008 03:11:12 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/5/7/1088/94928#2 Why not just the price of the car? I'm not sure that Chrysler is trying 'to pull a fast one' -- its not as if they can roll out new higher mpg vehicles on a dime (usually takes 3 years), but I question this marketing approach. It seems entirely too laden w Fri, 9 May 2008 02:56:19 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/5/7/1088/94928#1 <i> With gas prices heading towards the $4.00 a gallon threshold in most of the nation (California and Hawaii, the rest of us feel your pain) this offer of three years of $2.99 a gallon gas sounds too good to be true.  There might be a reason for that Thu, 8 May 2008 09:37:37 EST string http://www.treesandthings.com/search/