How much gasoline do you use?

[HungLikeJesus]

He who goes forth with a fifth on the fourth may not go forth on the fifth.

[Cloud]

she who drinks a fifth should not be driving, either

[Sundae]

I spend precisely NOTHING!
Perhaps in a onth I should factor in the cost of diesel for the occasional bus journey, but even that is >$20.

This weekend is a biggie for me in terms of fuel consumption on my behalf - back home to my parents.
Bus to North Greenwich.
Tube to Finchley Road, change, then Tube to Amersham.
Then picked up by my Daddy for 20 mile trip home.

Okay I fell into living where I live, and working where I work.
But I am very pleased about it [/smug]

[bigw00dy]

I drive about 500 miles a week for my commute. My vehicle gets about 22mpg. So i am buying 20 some gallons of gas a week.

But soon enough......I will have a Toyota Prius.

[sweetwater]

Combined, the Spouse and I use 5 or 6 gallons a week, he to work, me to errands and a twice weekly Meals on Wheels route, but if we go anywhere else than in town then the amount doubles or triples.

[Cloud]

not as much since I stopped using it to mop my floors with

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

I spend precisely NOTHING!
Perhaps in a onth I should factor in the cost of diesel for the occasional bus journey, but even that is >$20.

This weekend is a biggie for me in terms of fuel consumption on my behalf - back home to my parents.
Bus to North Greenwich.
Tube to Finchley Road, change, then Tube to Amersham.
Then picked up by my Daddy for 20 mile trip home.

Okay I fell into living where I live, and working where I work.
But I am very pleased about it [/smug]

You use it alright, you just pay for it differently, and more cheaply and efficiently. Good on you.

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

You use it alright, you just pay for it differently, and more cheaply and efficiently. Good on you.

Oh yes, I'm not being holier-than-thou
It's more luck than judgement, but I am pleased about the outcome

[skysidhe]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Having 3 kids on the payroll sucks. But I did promise to support them in college. We only pay for school related gas. Any trips they want to take with their cars, they have to pay for the gas and all expenses related to the trip. All 3 cars are paid for so it beats three car payments.

I'll be doing the same next fall. He has been good about taking the bus this year but next year he can drive to college. I'll have the vehicle paid off in a year so I can maybe recoup the cost of gas.

Does anyone think the price will ever go back down? Even a dollar reduction would help.

[HungLikeJesus]

I tend to agree with this guy (from Newsweek):

...
But America's top car dealer says what we really need in this country is high gas prices—something in the neighborhood of $6 a gallon—if we ever really want to tackle the critical issues of the day: global warming and our oil addiction. "The biggest lie in America politics today is to say you care deeply about global warming and advocate for the price of gas to go down," says Mike Jackson, CEO of the AutoNation car dealer chain. "Those are mutually exclusive concepts."

The fact is, as much as we gripe about gas prices, we're pumping just as much of the precious liquid into our tanks as ever. Every day in America we burn through 391 million gallons of motor fuel. That burn rate is the same as last year, when gas prices were 70 cents per gallon lower. And gas consumption is up 18 percent from a decade ago. The federal Energy Information Administration just predicted we would finally begin to curb our consumption this year for the first time since 1991—by an underwhelming 0.3 percent...

(there's more at the link, above)

[sweetwater]

Hey, Newsweek stole the very arguments I was making a couple of days ago, except I recall I said $8/gal, with excess profits subsidizing mass trans, 2-wheeled vehicle lanes, work from home jobs, alt energy, and other proactive research. Yes, I would complain about the price with everyone else but take a bit of comfort believing the bucks were going to a better cause than one industry's bottom line.

[xoxoxoBruce]

And gas consumption is up 18 percent from a decade ago.

I wonder how many more cars on the road from a decade ago?

[Buffalo Bill]

I drive 750 miles per week just to go to work, I'm supposed to get a new car soon, a Toyota Yarris, supplied by the company I work for, but until then I have to ride my Jeep to work and it's costing me around $120.00 a week . That put a dent in the budget.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by skysidhe

Does anyone think the price will ever go back down? Even a dollar reduction would help.

I think it may continue to go up and down by .25 cents with a continual average increase till it gets around $5.

[Cicero]

So this is my fault now? Fuck that. How to: put the blame back on the American people for the intentional lack of access to alternative fuels. Spin.

So it will be my fault too when there is a food shortage to go along with the gas hikes too, I suppose.

When that happens I will say "screw that" too.

I will not accept blame for big oils greed. I don't care how you would like to spin it.