Hi,
How are you dealing with gas prices? ?
I think I have a good reason to stay home now.
I'm locking myself in my apt and catching up on sleep while saving the environment.

Also, I am going to have some repairs done to my 97 Geo Prism rather than run it into the ground so that I can get a new car sooner. . . . .cheaper to repair and gas milieage on the geo is ok anyway.

M.

It's been awful to pay just over fifty to fill'er up. I just hate this, and over the past week groceries went up about ten percent, the first of many soon to come increases, it's terrible. Families everywhere must be struggling like mine is to keep food on the table and gas in the car. I hope this ends soon.

I am trying real hard to get better gas mileage in my insight.
I get about 50 mpg+ more if I don't run the air conditioner full blast.
I travel in my car to clients homes so I am on the road a good bit of the day...some days it's 60 miles other days it is only 10 miles.
Gas is at $4.00 a gallon now....don't know when it will stop.
bizi

It is an outrage. I can't even think of things like the fact that there is plenty of supply, and therefore why these prices? Somebody is putting a lot of money in their pocket. I don't know who and I won't point any fingers but if you follow the money, something starts to really stink.

The environmental aspect is a different side. This is also very important to me - fossil fules should only be a short term source until a practical alternative is ready for mass implementation. This will require cooperation and support from the kindly folks in the industries that make our vehicles as well as their fuel. I have no doubt that a reasonable and practical solution would be readily adopted by folks at large. If it is too sparsely supported, and too expensive to service and maintain it will never work. As long as we have a government that is heavily subsidised by forces to whom the adoption of alternative energies would be detremental it will not work. Perhaps you see where I'm pointing the finger.

My wife is currently assigned to a client, not too far away, over the bridge in NJ. She must drive to reach their location. We bought a new car because our 12 year old Volvo was just nolonger worth trying to maintain. It served us well. Of course the gas mileage was important to us, but it was far more important to me that the car have enough power to get out of it's own way merging onto the NJ Turnpike and that it be robust enough to be safe. We settled on a Honda CR-V, while not the most fuel friendly vehicle, it was a great compromise between safety, power, and fuel efficiency.

Driving 250 miles per week at $4 per gallon you will save $40 per month for every additional 5 mpg you increase your mileage.

One of the biggest and easiest ways to improve your mileage is keeping your tires properly inflated. Keeping your air and oil filters new and fresh also help.

Drive with the windows UP and the AC off if you can stand it. Otherwise crack one window in the front and one window in the back slightly.

Drive gently and use the cruise control.

I did a little math:

50 miles per day, 5 days per week = 1000 miles / month

At 20 mpg, this is 50 gallons

At 25 mpg, this is 40 gallons

At 30 mpg, this is 30 gallons.

At $4 / gallon this is $200 or $160 or $120

So savings are from $40 to $80 per month depending on the mileage of the car give or take... Clearly Bizi has this mileage beat!

Oh - and the urban legends about buying gas in the morning, etc are completely false - at least very insignificant dealing with common volumes and temperature changes. The physics do not add up. (I did some math on that one too but I won't bore you with it here). If it were 20 below in the morning and 120 in the shade in the evening and you bought a few hundred gallons we might be talking about some serious dough... Gas is stored underground. The temperature does not change much.

in the UK its currently £1.20 per Litre

thats 4.5 litres to the gallon= £5.40 per gallon

thats $10.66= to my callculations. [ thats nearly $95 every three weeks to fill our car]


What with food costs inceasing and fuel bills estimated to go up 40% in winter [ on top of 38% we are are already paying in additional costs from Jan 08]

And a government telling workers not to ask for pay rises...Where will it all end.

I dread to think

David

hi David,
You folks have been paying higher gas prices for a very long time...this is new for the usa folks.
WE just took a day trip, 200 miles round trip, $20 in gas, it was a great trip and worth every penny.
bizi

It affects everything, not just at the pump but the price of everything else...and our paychecks sure aren't increasing for the cost of this living increase. We are just hard working, low-end middle class folks, but would like to continue to survive...and we are starting to wonder. especially with all the medical bills...we shouldn't have to put off going to the doctor because we worry not to have the money for the copay AND fuel to drive there.

...and that's the truth....pththththth!!!