I never thought the day would come that gas prices would ever get to $4.00. Many people I speak with says they never thought they would see $3.00 Gas. I didn't really notice much of a difference when gas shot up to $3.00. Now that gas is $4.00 +, I have noticed a big dent in my pockets...along with food prices. The state of the economy these days have really affected many people from the rich to the poor. Families are trying to make ends meet and circumstances don't seem to be getting any better. Sometimes I silently laugh at myself because I am literally driving around looking for gas that just a couple of cents cheaper...probably wasting more gas doing that. I look at things in a whole different way now. I am sure many others are having to change their spending habits...especially those that are driving the Gas Guzzlers.
This is a web site that I use to find cheap gas in my area...maybe this link can help someone else.
http://www.gasbuddy.com/
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While we wait for Congress and other "powers that be" to get off their respective butts and actually do something meaningful about the situation, here are some things that anyone can consider:
* Consider telecommuting; maybe once per week or more, or twice per week every other week; the options are endless
* Consider a 4-day work-week, where 4 days are worked 10 hours/day
* Consider alternate transportation, such as scooters (http://www.scootdawg.com is a great place to start). For under $2,000 in a lot of instances, you can get a 250cc-type engine scooter that can be safely driven even on interstates and you could get upwards of 75 mpg on, say, a 3 or 3.5 gallon tank
All the best,
-Phil
I think that scootdawg would be a very cost effective way to travel...giving you won't be able to travel too far. Great Info.
I never thought that gas would reach $4. People have rearrange grocery and bill money just to buy gas to get to work. It is hard on a lot of people. If I could, I would ride the bus everyday to work and only work on the weekends. When I pay $3.85, I think that I am getting a deal. I wonder if gas will ever by $2 again? Remember when that was high. Gas was $3 last year, too, but I don't remember all this going on.
You know what gets me, though? My neighbors absolutely REFUSE to carpool with me, even though neither one of them has had a job in 10 years. And it gets better. Their son drives to the high school every day and they drive the other son to THE SAME CAMPUS. Don't ask me how they afford it.
I traded my Expedition in back in 2005 because gas was around $3 a gallon. I couldn't afford to fill it up because I was working 50 miles from my house.
From that trade in I bought a brand new Ford Focus. Oh yeah, I did a huge down grade. I ended up quitting my job that was so far away and became a stay-at-home mom. Now, I work 10 miles away at a small town restaurant a few nights a week for grocery money and gas money.
Thankfully, I only spend about $50 a week on gas, if that. I'm lucky though because both my husband and I work so close to our home.
We have cut back something serious on our grocery bill. Along with a million other Americans, Wal-Mart is where we save most of our money. We have decided to buy the Great Value brand and we save SO MUCH MONEY by doing that. Also, we have a Dollar General Market in our town. It's a Dollar General with groceries. It's all off brand items and most of them are great! We probably spend about $100 a week on groceries and that's eating good.
You learn to cut back where you can. Our main focus is getting our credit card debt down. We got ourselves into a pickle and we're slowly but surely coming out of it.
Sorry for the long post, lol. :o) I posted a blog about how I save money on my electric bill on my blog, check it out.
http://happy-sahm.blogspot.com/2008/06/turn-off-lights-for-one-hour-every-day.html
I think Dr. Charles Krauthammer sums up the rationale of most Americans quite nicely in a recent Washington Post piece.
Per one of his stats at the beginning of the article, American driving habits continue to show a downward slide in terms of percentage of those driving on the roads (though, in my view, I think this is more attributable to not as many vacationers traveling long distances).
Eventually, one or two things will break: (1) the American economy, (2) DC politicians allowing drilling and/or nuclear, et al. technologies to move forward in a major way.
-Phil
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