| I am curious with gas now at $4 a gallon
Posted: 6/29/2008 3:51:07 AM | what changes has it made in your life?: verymad:
I know I am already driving a 4 cyl car and have been for years.
Now I seem to be
driving less, and trying to lay out a route so I can do several errands at the same time.
Also I am trying to practice hypermiling (keeping your foot off the break)
doing a lot of coasting....its suppose to save gas..
WHAT ARE YOU DOING? | |
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| I am curious with gas now at $4 a gallon
Posted: 6/29/2008 4:15:57 AM | | Driving the speed limit and trying to consolidate trips. I would love to buy something really small, not necessarily a hybrid...but maybe!! That reminds me, I need to get my tires checked, make sure they are properly inflated. | |
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| I am curious with gas now at $4 a gallon
Posted: 6/29/2008 5:10:53 AM | | I put in a post like this but I might have titled it wrong or worded it wrong. All in all, it leads right back to dating. The cost of gas can effect all things in our lives now that we are used to driving everywhere. Taking vacations might have to be curbed (of course, if you are rich, don't read this LOL). Buy food only once a week and not run to the store everyday. Try to conserve on utilities (we've been this route before). Pray that you get a pay raise too LOL. All in all, we will have to make a few life changes to cope with the rising cost of the gas and what it effects. | |
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| I am curious with gas now at $4 a gallon
Posted: 6/29/2008 5:40:57 AM | speaking of utilities I have a timer on my hot water tank and I turned town the temp a long time ago..also I bought those special light bulbs.
But my utility bills still increase every year.
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| I am curious with gas now at $4 a gallon
Posted: 6/29/2008 4:06:25 PM | Yeah...life changes..... I'm looking for a roommate.... my youngest just moved out and I have 4 bedrooms.... sooo why not? Right now I also keep my ac around 78 and use a fan, I actually prefer it that way. When more people are in the house I keep the windows open and use fans. [NOT in July or August, generally... the humidity is killer here]. [Unless the other people want the ac on, then as low as 68/70 is ok.
Aaahh....vacation, I go to Nagshead, about 3 hrs away. Drove down to Ocracoke this trip...LOVED the place, but that adds another hour of driving thus gas guzzling to the trip. [and the ferry ride was cool but the fumes the boat put out! ugh maybe we could have all rowed? haha]
I like conserving, re-using, re-cycling, living more natural ... it means you care about the earth - isn't that important? | |
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| I am curious with gas now at $4 a gallon
Posted: 6/29/2008 6:48:17 PM | Im happy that my nissan truck is paid for and gets 26 mpg highway and Im going keep driving to untill it falls apart witch may take years.
taxes on it get lower ever year and no payments so more money for gas 
gas is now 3.88 its shocks to see it that high | |
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| I am curious with gas now at $4 a gallon
Posted: 6/29/2008 7:27:41 PM | I mentioned to my boss (owner) the escalating cost of driving 22 miles each way to work and his solution was providing me with a company gas card. Damn is that nice every 10 days when the pump runs up over $70.00.....More money
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee....LOL.... | |
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| I am curious with gas now at $4 a gallon
Posted: 6/30/2008 3:39:58 AM | I have a flex fuel suv that will run off straight ethnol, i have been looking into the licenceing & tax info & been reading info on building a still to maybe go off the grid with petro gas.
I have been gathering info on building a hydrogen generator to get fuel from water, need to get to reading it all& start buying all the parts.
I have been takeing cold showers, the water is actually warm enough most days to take a shower without useing any hot water.
I have been avoiding useing the a/c as much as possible, there has been a good breese & i run a fan too, lately tho there have been a few unavoidable days that were just too humid.
Stack errends, avoid running around, kinda backed off on going to st pete & other far away locals. | |
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| I am curious with gas now at $4 a gallon
Posted: 6/30/2008 9:06:40 PM | Don't forget to at least every five fillups, remove your tag, go to an Exxon or BP station, and STEAL A TANK!
They are stealing from you, might as well shaft 'em right back! | |
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| I am curious with gas now at $4 a gallon
Posted: 6/30/2008 10:01:02 PM | i spend over $600 in gas per month in my personal vehicle.
i dont plan on making any changes other than work a tiny bit harder at work each week to make up the difference in price.
if you love cars, you gotta pay to play. | |
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| I am curious with gas now at $4 a gallon
Posted: 7/1/2008 11:58:36 AM | | Well my reasoning was actually for improved fitness, but I try and ride my bike as much as possible compared to my car. (thats bicycle) I've found myself much happier getting the exercise and I only need to fill up like once a month these days, which includes weekend trips out of town. Not to mention loving how I feel these days. | |
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| I am curious with gas now at $4 a gallon
Posted: 7/3/2008 8:29:16 PM | the steep gas prices haven't really changed my driving habits, however it kinda sucks having a fun car now, and it costs a freakin fortune to fill it up. | |
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| I am curious with gas now at $4 a gallon
Posted: 7/6/2008 9:43:29 AM | I find myself reading articles and realizing how stupid most alternative energy sources are and why we don't use them. I have read some interesting articles that look more promising, like making gasoline from plain old air (can be done).
Because of the prices gas is constantly in the news, so it makes me wonder what causes it to be so high. Seems that we have a global surplus, and OPEC is willing to increase the amount they drill, but speculators are driving up costs. So, is this the same bad investing that is to blame that caused the dot com bubble? Perhaps it is just the stupidity of this generation of investors that is unintentionally derailing our economy and if it continues, our lifestyles.
This all also brings up the global warming debate (I think to stear us toward alternative energy rather than just finding more sources of oil). So, I read alot of articles about global warming and how it is and is not caused.
So, I guess this gas issue just makes me think and read more and be more resentful of stupid people that affect our lives. | |
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| I am curious with gas now at $4 a gallon
Posted: 7/6/2008 9:47:34 AM | | Oh, and it also reminds me how stupid "hypermilers" are and how much they annoy me, they are right up there with the students that speed from redlight to redlight. Luckily you will all whipe each other out, hopefully leaving us normal drivers to the street. If you were that concerned about money, you would clip coupons before driving like a jackass. | |
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| I am curious with gas now at $4 a gallon
Posted: 7/6/2008 5:04:05 PM | if people want to drive POS econoboxes with no performance whatsoever, they can be my guest, go for it!
i just get sick of the ones trying to tell ME what i should be driving.
"you gotta pay to play"
i have a passion for performance cars, and regardless of how high gas costs climb i will continue to work hard just so that i can afford to enjoy them. | |
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| I am curious with gas now at $4 a gallon
Posted: 7/6/2008 5:44:25 PM | You haven't noticed the "hypermilers" yet? They are the ones who drive slower than everyone else and try not to use their brakes, that way you have to use Your brakes to keep from rear ending them as they are slowing for their exit five miles down the road. They don't think about what their few cents of fuel savings does to traffic as a whole, especially in already congested areas. The difference between driving reasonably and like a jackass doesn't save you much money at all. Not nearly as much as say, clipping coupons, not drinking bottled water, or not drinking a cup of coffee in the morning. Why not make a change that doesn't inconvenience everyone else on the road? I had a guy who was a "hypermiler" who worked for me for a couple of months. He drove a prius. I thought that was the reason to drive a prius, so you didn't Have to think too hard about how to save pennies on gas. No, this jackass would refuse to use the interstate, and would drive his already underpowered car with the objective of never having the gasolene engine kick in. We work in a service industry where response time counts and this jack ass thinks he is driving miss daisy, and the ironic part is that I told him that I would reimburse him for gas if he would just drive like a normal human being. I even assured him that just driving the prius was enough for him to never get laid and spend the rest of his life with a house full of cats playing warcraft in his tightie whities without the added push to piss everyone off.
You want to save gas, car pool, drive a fuel efficient car if you want, but drive highway speeds and slow appropriately, that means not coasting to a stop or avoiding using the breaks. It is dangerous and annoying. But if selfriteousness could fill a tank you could run forever without a stop at the station.
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2008/06/gas_prices274.html
That is what is driving costs up anyway, people trying to make a buck without considering the system as a whole. Too many spculating on the price of oil and buying any time someone in the middle east farts has caused this problem. We went into Iraq and destroyed their ability to produce oil, and the prices didn't rise like this. Production is rising, but so are prices, demand is not outpacing supply. Maybe having only a few in our society handle most of the wealth is a good idea, aparently its the common people who cause bank panics and drive up prices unreasonably. Who else would fall for all of the speculation. | |
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| I am curious with gas now at $4 a gallon
Posted: 7/6/2008 6:54:32 PM |
They are the ones who drive slower than everyone else and try not to use their brakes, that way you have to use Your brakes to keep from rear ending them
whatever new name you wanna tack onto them, those **stards were around long before anyone cared about gas mileage, they just drive like shit period, whether they want to save gas or not. | |
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| I am curious with gas now at $4 a gallon
Posted: 7/6/2008 9:17:56 PM | Well, now the starbucks drinking, trade your SUV for a prius, anti global warming, recycling everything in site, people have all started to do it, not just the blue-haired brittle-hipped and asian set. I think they all need a carbon footprint put right in their ass. What I want to know is if there is still a hole in the ozone layer or did we stop that by not using hairspray and not having our car A/C's pump out that ice cold air that we loved so much(I want my R12 back dammit, I miss being able to ice up the windows), like we were all told?
The name is also ironic, doesn't hypermiling sound like they would be going faster, or using some advanced NASA inspired technology? They should call it slowmiling, or maybe grannypeddling.
Maybe I should open a biodiesel/E85 scooter/ultracompact dealership or something. | |
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| I am curious with gas now at $4 a gallon
Posted: 7/7/2008 5:03:55 PM | | It's not just the price of gas but the failing economy. I find myself staying home a lot more and just having get togethers at my house or friends. I make a better Margarita than most bars anyway... | |
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