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How has the gasoline price crunch affected your driving habits lately?

How are gasoline prices affecting your driving habits?

  • Not at all. I drive just like I used to do.

    Votes: 33 62.3%

  • Reduced driving somewhat, but not a lot.

    Votes: 18 34.0%

  • Driving has been a LOT but still do some fun trips.

    Votes: 1 1.9%

  • Only drive when absolutely necessary and no FUN trips.

    Votes: 1 1.9%

  • Don't drive at all and use public transportation until this ends.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    53
Not much and my vette is not my daily driver either. But I am going on a two
driving vacation and look to put a good 3000 miles the last two weeks of June.

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It's affected me somewhat. I used to drive home for lunch each day. Now I either walk next door to the Thai place, or drive someplace much closer. In retrospect it seems kind of foolish. I'm probably spending more money eating out than I spent on gas to drive home each day.:rolleyes:
 
GAS CRUNCH

iam just a weekend driver. I drive about 3000 to 5000 miles a year, so gas tends to last me a little while. I work in Plant city and live in TAMPA,so in my work car i burn about a tank a half a week.my work car is also my get a round car, so i try not to do too much driving.I'am doing some cosmetic work to my 90 -c4 so i can start doing the cruising scene with TBV. i'am dying to get out and hang out with you guys so the gas wont be much of a problem me once i"am ready to ride.
 
I'm really getting sick of the gas prices. I might just get a motorcycle to drive to and from work. It's not that I don't have the money to spend on gas, I just don't think I should. The big oil companies aren't getting too much of my money. So, I'd probably get about 45mpg on the bike. That would help. Some people say it's not worth it because you have to lay out the money for the bike, so you aren't saving anything. It's not so much about saving as it is about who's getting the money.

Rant off.
 
I really wish I could stage a protest by just not driving, but honestly, lately I only go places I NEED to go anyway. Very little optional mileage being put on anything at all. Heck, more gasoline probably evaporates from my Jeep then I use for driving each year.... :eek: Tomorrow I have to run to the post office, get a hair cut, go to the bank, and stop by an office supply store.

I've had people say to me that I'm lucky living in Florida where the weather is nice most of the time. Heck, for as much as I get outside this time of year, I could be living in the Arctic Circle for all the difference it would make. But there should be a light at the end of the tunnel somewhere around the bend up ahead......
 
i still drive the same but when i go to the pump or see the news about another excuse why prices are going up i get pissed off. record profits every quarter in the oil industry makes me think there is a little funny stuff going on. the best excuse so far was " fear of terrorism " wow being scared can really make a price go up! i do have a ducati 916 for sale if anyone wants it. the price is right.
 
Yeah, but you know what? They have us by the short hairs and they know it. And there isn't one damned thing we can do about it, either.

A long while back when I lived in Maryland, the wife and I were thinking about moving to Tampa. So we got the local newspaper delivered to us. I remember an interesting article itemizing all of our representatives in Washington D.C. showing all those who had stock in the oil companies. The list went on for PAGES. But I guess conflict of interest doesn't matter up in the ivory tower.......
 
(Wondering how this post popped up under "new post" today) My driving hasn't changed, but I only use my cars to haul kids to Soccer practice and Kenpo twice a week. I use my company car the rest of the time. I fill up the truck and the Vette once or twice a month. The thing that ticks me off is the price of diesel fuel! Why is it 30-40 cents a gallon higher than regular gas? I've heard the old excuse that it competes with home heating oil in the winter. If we know this why don't we make more of it so the supply is not so tight? Oh, that's right, then the oil companies wouldn't make so much money! Those XXXholes are laughing all the way to the bank!
 
Although my 06 A6 is my DD I only drive 7-8K a year and use only 7-8 gallons of gas a week. If petro goes to $5 a gallon I will still drive the same distance and with the same habbits.
 
Who cares about $3 gas when driving a $50K Corvette?

If I were concerned about the price of gas I'd conserve in other ways and probably wouldn't have spent $50K for a Corvette.
 
85vette said:
(Wondering how this post popped up under "new post" today) My driving hasn't changed, but I only use my cars to haul kids to Soccer practice and Kenpo twice a week. I use my company car the rest of the time. I fill up the truck and the Vette once or twice a month. The thing that ticks me off is the price of diesel fuel! Why is it 30-40 cents a gallon higher than regular gas? I've heard the old excuse that it competes with home heating oil in the winter. If we know this why don't we make more of it so the supply is not so tight? Oh, that's right, then the oil companies wouldn't make so much money! Those XXXholes are laughing all the way to the bank!
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My "guess" and it's only a SWAG, is that most diesels get double + the mileage of most gas powered vehicles of similar design. For example, my 98 Landcruiser gets 9.5 regardless. A Diesel version of the same vehicle gets upward of 25-30!!

I just figured the companies jacked up the prices to make up the difference in use:(

As far as my driving habits? I probably drive less for work (I now deligate a lot of this BS), and when I have to take out of town business trips, unless I know I'm going to the boonies or the weather absolutely sucks!, I take the vette. It again get's double+ the fuel economy:thumbsup:

A little off topic, but where do train in Kenpo up there?
 
85vette said:
(Wondering how this post popped up under "new post" today)
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Someone probably voted in the poll but didn't leave a written message. I see it all the time in the radar detector thread poll. In that one I think yankeedad was the last one to post but it still pops up in new posts sometimes. I think they vote and stop there but it makes the post show new.
 
When I first acquired my BB I recall asking,:shrug01: what (pray tell) might I expect for gas milage from this beasty? :shrug01: An unremembered friend on the forum advised me and I quote "Its not milage you get from a BB 454 it's smilage". And I live by those words of wisdom each day.

When I want to drive I drive. Carrie might have to eat peanut butter and sardines for a week but "Goldie" will be driven (she didn't hear me say that did she?):rolleyes::lmao:
 
Kap142 said:
...When I want to drive I drive. Carrie might have to eat peanut butter and sardines for a week but "Goldie" will be driven (she didn't hear me say that did she?):rolleyes::lmao:
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Ssshhhhh!! You're secrets safe here....:lmao:
 
My European patients think gas is cheap in the USA. One of my patients from England said he paid the equivalent of $8.00/gallon there! I guess from that perspective, we do have a good deal. I wish it was below 2.75 like everyone else but what the heck are we going to do if have to pay Euorpean prices in the future. May be a good time to pump up my bicycle tires!
 
I think it gripes about anyone's butt to pay so much for gasoline, and probably especially so if you are REQUIRED to drive a certain amount for a living. Since I basically work out of my home, I really don't drive all that much, so a gastank full of gasoline goes a long way, timewise. Heck, we have a Chevy Astro van that only uses a couple of tankfulls a year, since we don't drive it that much. But getting that 30 gallon tank filled is a real sock on the chin when it happens.

Any tax experts out there? Any way I could draft members here to put CorvetteFlorida stickers on their cars and have them deduct some of the cost of driving by helping to advertise this site? I would imagine they would have to show that it was a method of generating income to offset the expense, so I would need to find a way to offer them some sort of financial reward. Maybe free contributor memberships for new members they get signed up? Heck, I'd be willing to do it if it wouldn't become a colossal headache managing it.....
 
Shadow said:
My "guess" and it's only a SWAG, is that most diesels get double + the mileage of most gas powered vehicles of similar design. For example, my 98 Landcruiser gets 9.5 regardless. A Diesel version of the same vehicle gets upward of 25-30!!

I just figured the companies jacked up the prices to make up the difference in use:(

As far as my driving habits? I probably drive less for work (I now deligate a lot of this BS), and when I have to take out of town business trips, unless I know I'm going to the boonies or the weather absolutely sucks!, I take the vette. It again get's double+ the fuel economy:thumbsup:

A little off topic, but where do train in Kenpo up there?
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I had a 1988 Chevy C2500 with a gas 350 with the 5 speed transmission that got 19 mpg empty. It didn't pull loads really well (13K pounds) so I bought a 1998 6.5 H.D. Turbo Diesel with an automatic trans. It pulls MUCH better than the gas burner but only gets 17 mpg empty. (wish it was a standard shift) The diesel weighs almost 6K pounds empty whereas the old gas burner was around 4200 pounds. I'm not really complaining about the mileage, a friend had a truck like mine with a 454 and only got 10 mpg. Even paying 30-40 cents a gallon more it's cheaper to drive my diesel than his 454. So I just drive the Vette more, it gets 19.5 mpg. Only problem is when I take both my boys to Kenpo or soccer we have to take the truck.

We go to Masters Shaolin Kenpo here in Crawfordville, which is affiliated with Kenpo Karate and Kickboxing Center Inc. of Tallahassee. Our Sensei is Carmen Williams, 3rd degree Black Belt. KKKCI is owned by Master Jerry Ingle, 6th degree Blackbelt, and we test with him. If you're familiar with Kenpo I'm sure you've heard of him.
 
Ever since gas went over 1.40 a gal i've been pissed. But i only drive one mile to work and one mile back, and do a Vette cruise once a month.

I put just over 3k miles on my 06 a6 as of today, bought it Jan 6th 07.
 
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