If Gas Was Twelve Dollars per Gallon…
Oct 10th, 2007 by msdanielle
Would you:
a) Go on a personal gas strike
b) Continue buying the same amount weekly
c) Write to your Congressman and complain
d) Do nothing. You don’t buy gas
e) Fill in the blank…
Just some food for thought. I don’t drive into Los Angeles five times a week anymore, so I fill up about once every week and a half. I’d probably consider buying a fuel-efficient car, like a Prius or something. What do you guys think? It might happen someday.
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Fuel in the uk is over $7 per gallon… couple of years ago truck drivers almost stopped the country by blockading fuel depo’s… but the tax keeps going up, of that money I think over 80% is tax.
I dont drive any more as its too much hassle… roads are congested, speed cameras everywhere to improve “safety” though its known that this is not the case… I have been fined, have points on my license, git tired of congestion and the cost and now get the train whenever possible…
wow, $7/gallon! i think it’s about $2.85 where I’m at, probably around $3 in los angeles. sounds like you’re saving yourself a lot of money, not just on gas, by not driving. if i were to take the train in to my work in LA, i’d have to drive 15 mins to the train, which is $10 round trip and half an hour ride, then transfer in downtown LA to a bus (another $1.50) to my office, which takes the same amount of time as driving and costs almost the same as gas + parking… i’d rather have my car…
My last two jobs were an hours drive away, if I get the train I can read / use laptop / sleep… its not such a waste of time.
The one place was a few miles from the station so I did 14 miles per day on my mountain bike also, that meant the overall journey was longer, but it was good exercise… again time well spent IMO… A lot of people drive to the gym after work….
Train is a lot cheaper, we got rid of our second car, saved all the costs on insurance, road tax, fuel etc….
The main problem with trains is you catch every virus going… if bird flue ever takes hold I’m gonna be in big trouble!!!
I would probably end up filling the amount I need but I would find alternative ways like carpooling or something considering that my drive to school daily is around 66 miles. My fill up nowdays is anywhere from $40-$60!
if you can find people to commute with to school, that would be your best bet. i carpooled most of my freshman year, which was about 55 miles round trip… too bad it doesn’t work out that way when you’re in the working world… (orange county to los angeles)
I’d buy a scooter, then get run over by the rich jerk who doesn’t care how much gas is per gallon.
I’ve saved about $225/month in gas since my wife works close to our house now, and I drive her Honda Civic to work.
I do miss my SUV though, a 230 lbs. man isn’t meant to fit nicely in a civic.
$225/mo in gas is great savings. have you tried a scion?
@keith - i’d like to buy a scooter, but the 50 mile round-trip in and out of downtown LA on streets probably would take forever…
I`m thankful owning a car in Japan isn`t even and option for me. My monthly bills are at the lowest they`ve been in my life ….. it`s amazing how many other costs come with owning a car. Guess it helps to live in a country with a world class transport system like Japan. I do miss the actual `Driving` part though.
My prediction for the popular crime of this century will be stealing gas out of other cars while they are driving down the road. It’s only a matter of time before it becomes really practical.
Great topic. That’s a toughie to answer. Since I work from home, I rarely take my car out unless it’s a real short trip, or a Monday night race to the bar for football. I guess I’d carpool when I could. But the downside is we have 2 kids and the typical minivan gas guzzler. So not sure exactly what we’d do there to conserve, except to try planning our trips a lot better and maybe combine errands together (or I’d do them in my Honda Civic) and save the minivan purely for bigger trips with the kids.
I can’t wait for the electric hybrids to come out full force with th rechargeable batteries that you just plug in to your outlet. Then we can all stop complaining about high gas prices, and instead point to insane electric bills.
where i grew up it was 10 cents per gallon! when i came to north america, it threw me for a spin! so i guess i will fill in the blank, move back to where the gas is 10 cents per gallon!
I would move to a city that does not require me to drive a car, New York, San Fransisco, etc. and start a movement to boycott the major gas companies until it actually impacted the prices.
They are even thinking of making you pay per mile driven in the UK, on top of the ridiculous prices maybe it’s a good signal that regular driving needs to be cut back on and people need to start using as much public transport as possible.
If gas was twelve dollars a gallon I would do two things:
1)Move closer to the office. I’m already planning on doing this now. Our old offices were only about a mile from my apartment–now they’re five and I miss my ten minute commute.
2)Bike to work a lot more. Austin is a fairly bikeable city and I’ve already tried biking to work once. It didn’t kill me and if I did it everyday it would quickly become easy.
Uggh here its like $3.85 for Regular and $3.99 for Super and I feel sorry for the diesel peoples because they need to fill up every day and its $4.50 a gallon for them. I’m a teen now but when I get older if gas is like 6 dollars a gallon I would just move by a lot of stores so I could walk easy.