Have gas prices affected you?

[plthijinx]

if you can find it here. places are selling out left and right. i filled up last night and today i took my g/f's car to work to top it off but couldn't find a station with fuel.

[Elspode]

I don't think the most insane evil overlord could have designed a more disastrous one/two punch for energy prices in this country.

[EmbraceLife]

Yes, gas prices are affecting me. I'm much more aware of each and every trip. I really spend some time organizing my time, my errands and my appointments. Before such high gas prices, I didn't think anything of running from one side of town to the other or driving a couple of hours to see family and friends.

We are also considering purchasing a hybrid this winter.

[Griff]

Originally Posted by EmbraceLife

We are also considering purchasing a hybrid this winter.

Find out what kind of mileage they're getting first. I bought a used Toyota Echo for like $5300 and it gets 44mpg. I'd be really pisssed if I paid a premium price for something fancy that can't do what primitive tech can. just a thought g

[capnhowdy]

guess we'll all wind up driving a computer. Sometimes I have to leave home to go to work. Hopefully soon I'll just work here. Several of my friends do now.
Even at that stage, you still HAVE to get out sometimes. The "let's take a ride" for pleasure days are over. Transportation is quickly becoming a need to only deal and not a recreation issue. I'm sure lots of us remember the go cruisin' days. They're prolly not coming back. Of couse my 70 & 1/2 Rat ain't comin back either.

[Kitsune]

Side note: The largest major disaster? Could that be Mt. St. Helen, back in 1980? Or how about the earthquake in san Francisco back in 1901? Okalahoma bombing? 9/11? Earthquake in Alaska 1964? Colombine shootings in Colorado? Plenty of disasters to go around.

I'd like to add the Galveston hurricane of 1900.
High gas prices? Terrorist attacks? Please.

In normal times, we don't have Tsunamis, skyscraper collapses, and chains of hurricanes year after year.

Hate to tell you this, but those are very "normal" events. The peace and quiet we experienced for some years was the exception, not the rule.

You wait until mother earth gets seriously pissed off at us. With the dense population centers we have these days, stuff could be much, much worse.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Kitsune

You wait until mother earth gets seriously pissed off at us. With the dense population centers we have these days, stuff could be much, much worse.

Seems like many intelligent people are currently predicting a few hundred million will be killed worldwide by the coming bird flu epidemic. We'll see. The little nasties are usually the ones that do the most damage. It happened to the densely planted elm trees when dutch elm disease came along. It can happen to us. Hurricanes are nothing compared to a major epidemic. Of course, epidemics don't cause any property damage, so we've got that going for us, which is nice.

[BigV]

Side note: The largest major disaster? Could that be Mt. St. Helen, back in 1980? Or how about the earthquake in san Francisco back in 1901? Okalahoma bombing? 9/11? Earthquake in Alaska 1964? Colombine shootings in Colorado? Plenty of disasters to go around.

Well, 35,000 people died two years ago during the extreme heat wave in Europe. I'd call that major.

[DucksNuts]

Instead of dropping my children off at day care 3 days per week, I know drop them off on Monday and pick them up Thursday.

Yes, the price of gas has affected me, but possibly not in a bad way.

[wolf]

Originally Posted by DucksNuts

Instead of dropping my children off at day care 3 days per week, I know drop them off on Monday and pick them up Thursday.

Sleepover daycare. Great idea!!

Gas, schmas ...

It's under $3 today. At the expensive, but more convenient, station on my way to work. $2.87 at the pain-in-the-ass station.

[capnhowdy]

You may recall a previous post where our governor removed all tax from gas. It lowered our prices about 15 cents per gal. Yesterday he decided he is closing all county and city schools Mon. and Tues. to save gas. I'm not sure yet what my opinion is on this issue, but I must say he is definately a doer and not a talker.
I wonder if the school closing will actually save any fuel. Hell, it may make people use more.......

[xoxoxoBruce]

He said it would save half a million gallons of diesel fuel plus some on the operation of the physical plants themselves. I thought he said he was using two of the alloted snow days early. Snow days? Georgia?

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

He said it would save half a million gallons of diesel fuel plus some on the operation of the physical plants themselves. I thought he said he was using two of the alloted snow days early. Snow days? Georgia?

As we all know, Georgia is as subject to the wrath of God as anywhere else. I'm sure we'll be reading about the blizzards soon.

Frankly, I feel for the folks in the small, isolated communities like the ones on Colorado's West Slope or in Eastern Utah. I had the misfortune to be low on gas in Bluff, Utah a couple of days ago. $3.32/gallon, thank you very much.

Does anyone know how far Bluff is from ANYWHERE? Probably not. I can't imagine what this will do for the mentality of some folks in those isolated little Mormon towns. Wrath of God, indeed! I thought I was going to puke if I had to drive through one more teensy little town with the Bank of Zion prominently situated across the street from the local gas station with its $3.30/gallon plus prices.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Well, it did snow in Idaho today.

[Elspode]

Scenic, but not exactly noteworthy in terms of meterological oddities. Now, if they'd had a *hurricane* in Idaho...