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Cutefrog
641 posts |
#298538 2008-05-20 14:15 GMT |
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OutOfSpace
630 posts |
#298539 2008-05-20 14:20 GMT |
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i'll be walking my happy ass everywhere, rofl
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Lucky
595 posts |
#298540 2008-05-20 14:21 GMT |
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Shamelessly beg my husband to stay in the military. There is NO way that we can afford getting out if that happens... we really can't afford getting out now with $4 gas!
I'll also have to get a full time job and cancel my plans for going back to college, the military pays for it, but I'm going to have to work to make ends meet rather than waste my time at school if that happens! |
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Jules
664 posts |
#298541 2008-05-20 14:23 GMT |
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nothing different i dont use enough gas for it to affect me really
actually i have started geting better deals on large displacement cars and i only see the selection getting better so i will probally have to build a bigger garage to put my toys |
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TeeOff
623 posts |
#298542 2008-05-20 14:25 GMT |
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When it gets that expensive, it will still only cost me 12-14 bucks a week in fuel to get around.
PIAGGIO for the win. |
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thruthelookingglass
642 posts |
#298543 2008-05-20 14:25 GMT |
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Nothing, suck it up and pay for it. Not that I'll be happy about it.
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Gothicbunny
658 posts |
#298544 2008-05-20 14:26 GMT |
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I already commute by bus and my husband is a tele-commuter, so we don't spend too much on gas. I suppose the bus will increase fares at some point, though, so I'll probably ride a bike to work.
For non-work trips, I guess not use the AC as much, try to batch my trips by how many places I can get to in the same trip. I suppose if it got really bad I'd catch the bus to do errands instead of take the car. |
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NightCrawler
655 posts |
#298545 2008-05-20 14:30 GMT |
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The sensible answer is the same thing you have been doing - perhaps in a new vehicle. Hybrid sales will skyrocket, as will motorcycle sales. Public transportation and mass transit, ignored for a decade, will boom in volume (one of our local bus lines, from the rail station, saw riders increase by 500% in the last few weeks). People will still work, they will still take vacations. We just will look more like Europe - which has had higher prices for decades.
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Beanie
663 posts |
#298546 2008-05-20 14:33 GMT |
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You create a smaller world. Simply you find businesses, restaurants and hopefully work closer to home or pay the going rate. I used to live in a small community outside of Detroit, MI where my annual mileage was about half of what it is in Houston, TX where everything is spread all over hell.
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ChocolateDrop
676 posts |
#298547 2008-05-20 14:33 GMT |
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i would commute using the train and bus which i always do it's it's not that expensive i'm actually saving alot of money, but then the fares for the buses and trains will go up and then if it's too expensive then i will jus bike or walk anyways everything here is within walking distance and dowtown boston is just 15-20 min away by train
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MortalKombat
620 posts |
#298548 2008-05-20 15:05 GMT |
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I ride my bike, I roller skate, I don't drive no car, I don't go too fast but I go pretty far....
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FeelingHot
625 posts |
#298549 2008-05-20 15:07 GMT |
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same thing, drive back and forth to work, i have to make a living. We have to pay, there is really no alternative.
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SilentHunter
605 posts |
#298550 2008-05-20 15:13 GMT |
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Nothing,I already prepared last year by buying a IDI Mercedes diesel,and converting it to run WVO or WMO.
People should climb off their high horse and ditch the new vehicles and retrofit like I did. I have to drive to run my business.I'm too disabled to hold a 8 hour a day job.But I work and pay taxes,no begging from the Government. |
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Flutterby
620 posts |
#298551 2008-05-20 15:24 GMT |
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What do mean? Are you trying to drive the price up even higher? Someone will come up with an idea for vehicles to operate with less cost. You know gasoline is not the only answer for fuel use.
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Sunflower
640 posts |
#298552 2008-05-20 17:02 GMT |
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down here in Italy we are at 8.5 dollars/gal. Salaries are half then the US. So we feel it 16 d/gal !!!!!!!
I ride my bike to work, but best thing is TELECOMMUTING..... BTW, I found out that most of the CO2 I emit is actually from house heating, not from commuting. But the state didn't tax that. |
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RadicalRodent
645 posts |
#298553 2008-05-20 17:15 GMT |
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I will be doing what I am doing now, take the train and have no life.
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Gunship
656 posts |
#298554 2008-05-20 18:16 GMT |
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Same as I do now. Commuting on my motorcycle. Riding bicycle for many errands. Limiting my trips. Driving slower. Saving my money as much as possible. I believe things will get worse.
I rode to work this morning on my motorcycle in the rain with temps at 50 degrees F. Beats driving the 18 mpg van. |
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Herdleader
619 posts |
#298555 2008-05-20 18:57 GMT |
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Host a party for all the people willing to change their way of life in order to avoid spending any more than necessary on gasoline.
Those that refuse to adapt will be broke - wages will have to go up to keep pace with products... those of us without a major gas bill each month will have even more extra hidden income! Sorry to be so cutthroat but I feel that 16 miles a day on a bicycle breathing auto exhaust and nearly run over every day gives me the right to be tickled over auto-dependent folks current plight. |
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Eclipse
710 posts |
#298556 2008-05-20 21:20 GMT |
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A new revolution will occur well before that happens.
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