Originally Posted By jdub Typing of grocery warehouses, it kills me how there are long lines of cars at the Costco gas station--hordes of people who drive miles out of their way to this remote part of town--in order to save a few cents on gas. And then let their engines idle as they wait. Before driving all the way back to civilization.
Originally Posted By DyGDisney LOL, jdub. This is why I opted out of the Costco membership, which is across town, and went for Sam's which is close to Target where I frequent anyway.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains I don't go to Costco for anything other than food - as they don't sell Diesel - For DH and DS19 Safeway with the discount is usually the same or less than Costco anyway - we know this because DS19 goes to Jr College next to Costco!
Originally Posted By dsnykid The gas prices are bothering me enough that I just bought a bike to get to and from work. As for groceries, I get free breakfast and lunch at work, so I only have to buy supper type stuff, which is a very nice perk.
Originally Posted By avromark All I can say is, I don't see why the oil companies should be making money through the you know what and make people suffer for it. I write off a lot of my miles but I'm at over 60k (km not mi though) this year. When I had my mid size I didn't feel comfortable. I now drive a CUV and find it doesn't use much more gas. However the cost now...
Originally Posted By EighthDwarf My commute is about 75 miles each way. The higher gas prices are making me work out of the home more often, which is a perk. I can wear my Fight Club t-shirt and sip tequila while on conference calls. The higher the gas price, the more often I can do it.
Originally Posted By cmpaley I've started taking the Metro to work again and I only work 2 1/2 miles from my house.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip My wife bought a new car yesterday. She traded in a 2007 Dodge Caliber that was coming off lease and leased a 2008 Dodge Nitro. The mpg figures really aren't that much different and my wife really liked the styling of the Nitro. I was fine with whatever vehicle she wanted to buy... after all, it is HER car. I have to admit though... it was kind of fun to see my wife choose a car that required some balls. I'll love her no matter what she wants, but one of the reasons I love her is that she's a ballsy-babe! ;-)
Originally Posted By DisneyFreak96 Eighth Dwarf, are you my boss? cmpaley, I am also taking a lot more public transportation. Its just so much cheaper. I also carpool a lot more.
Originally Posted By cmpaley The 75% subsidy on the transit pass from work doesn't hurt. I'm certain I'll save more than the $15.50 I spent ont he pass in gas going to and from work among other errands I don't need the car for.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo >>>I refuse to pay more than $2.<<< Wow, most boxes of cereal here in the Uk is $5 a box
Originally Posted By Mrs ElderP Right now ElderP has a 25 mile commute (one way) and he doesn't spend too much time in idle because he's commuting at off hours (He has to be at work by 5am and gets off at 2:30pm). Also, unlike the baloos or some of you in the CA bay area he doesn't pay any tolls or for parking. He also drives the littlest of little cars, a Chevy metro at 30 miles a gallon. Even so we are starting to talk about moving in closer to his work. If we lived in an apartment I think we'd do it next month, but to move we'd have to sell our house. That is even scarier to me than what we are paying for gas each month. If I could snap my fingers and sell my house and break even, we'd move next month. That's sad to say because we love our house, but that's the truth. Over all, though, I DON'T want a "gas tax holiday" and I think that overall expensive gas is good for america. It's forcing Americans (like us) to make better choices, moving closer to work, buying smaller cars, developing energy alternatives and so on. Though it sure would be nice if "everyone else" would be forced to make these changes and MY family could stay with $1.25 a gallon gas!
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn <Still annoyed at how much money the oil companies are making though!!!> Oil companies in the US aren't making nearly the same amount of loot compared to Saudi. You can invest in Exxon and share the wealth. You can't invest in the sheiks. It may be distressing to some that we have "an oilman in the White House". Well, imagine if we didn't - the domination that Saudi would gain over us. Sure. Record the measurement that gas prices have raised during Bush's term. Let's see what happens during President Obama's reign.
Originally Posted By DyGDisney I wish my dh could carpool. His hours are to erratic to do that. His work even has a vanpool from the next town over which won't work for his hours either. <<sigh>>
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>Not if you live in the SF Bay area - there are many small highways with major head-on problems << If would avoid such roads, regardless of what kind of vehicle I drove.
Originally Posted By fkurucz <<I don't think my husbands truck will roll easily. It is a very low model and is pretty evenly distributed. It has very good safety rating as far as roll-overs.>> All full size pickups have a higher center of gravity than a car, hence they are far more likely to roll. Mini pickups are lower, but still taller than cars. Same is true for most SUVs and minivans. I see rolled vehicles on I-25 very often, and I would say that 95% of the time they are some flavor of truck/SUV/minivan.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains <If would avoid such roads, regardless of what kind of vehicle I drove.> Unfortunately for some smaller - but growing town - don't have many options of getting out of town to work - sadly if people would stay on their own side and not speed or tailgate there would be less of a problem.
Originally Posted By DyGDisney LOL fkurucz. Some times it would add at least 1 hour to a persons commute to avoid those roads. My dh used to travel a stretch of highway that was known for head-on crashes. They eventually put a concrete center divide on that road, but for him to avoid that divide it would have added an hour to his already one hour drive. The bay area has crazy freeways and highways, terrible traffic congestion and horrible housing prices (not as bad these days) that make it impossible for some to live any closer to their work. We couldn't have afforded to buy a house close to dh's work back then because the cost of a one bedroom apartment in Marin county was more than our mortgage payment 47 miles away from where he worked.
Originally Posted By fkurucz ^^It is also my understanding that roll overs cause most of the fatalities, in large part because so many people don't buckle up and are ejected from their vehicles as they roll. If this happens you will almost certainly be killed.
