My first tank of gas less than $50.00 in a LONG time...

[Mark Wein]

I was amazed to pay just $47.00 for gas last night...the first time since I got the truck a year or so ago....


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081014/us_nm/us_usa_gasoline_price

[xqqmytude]

Amen. I filled up yesterday and it was $2.71 a gallon. I can't believe I consider that cheap.

[Phil513]

My commute takes about 16.5 gallons a week, im VERY happy to see it dropping.

It makes a big difference between me eating Chihli's wings, or top ramen.

[Prages]

It was still $3.19 this morning in Charleston. I think Mrs. P got it for $2.98 in Parkersburg, which is about 75 miles north of Charleston, right on the OH border.

[Mark Wein]

I think I paid $3.35...a couple of months ago I was paying $4.69. The first tank of gas my wife got after we got our Suburban was $98.00 :o

Luckily my commute is about 3 miles...

[Phil513]

Good lord, 100 bucks for a tankfull.

Did you just break down and cry on the spot? ;D

[xqqmytude]

I think I paid $3.35...a couple of months ago I was paying $4.69. The first tank of gas my wife got after we got our Suburban was $98.00 :o

Luckily my commute is about 3 miles...
Mine is 32. :'(

[Prages]

Good lord, 100 bucks for a tankfull.

Did you just break down and cry on the spot? ;D


You know what really made me the saddest?

When I put $20 worth of gas into my MOTORCYCLE!!!


(Granted, I use supreme in the bike, but it's a freakin' 4 gallon tank for cryin' out loud.)

I bought a 1993 Ford Explorer in 1999. I bought it used and the tank was empty. I drove it across the street and filled it up for $.99/gallon. Cost me less to fill up a Ford Explorer in 1999 than it did to fill up my Motorcycle this summer. >:(

[Phil513]

Yeah, that would be painful.

I had bikes for years, maybe its time i get another, just for my commute. probably pay for itself in no time.

[Prages]

Yeah, that would be painful.

I had bikes for years, maybe its time i get another, just for my commute. probably pay for itself in no time.


I get about 50 mpg on my bike.

I did the math though, and since I'm in a carpool, it's actually cheaper for me to carpool and drive the car every other week than it would be for me ride the motorcycle in the summer (I could really only ride it from about May to the end of September because mornings start getting too cold. Even then, there would be plenty of days where I couldn't ride because of rain.)

I did ride it to work a lot in the summers before I got into the carpool though.

My commute is about 30 miles each way.

[Phil513]

My car gets right at 27 mpg, which isnt bad for a mid-size with a V6, but 50 mpg sure looks a lot better.

[Mark Wein]

Good lord, 100 bucks for a tankfull.

Did you just break down and cry on the spot? ;D


Pretty much. We were happy to not have a car payment and then the gas turned into a car payment all in itself... >:(

[Mark Wein]

When we move into out new house we'll actually be about a mile and a half from the studio...if it wasn't for getting sweaty and then having to come home at 9:30 at night I'd probably walk or ride a bike.

[xqqmytude]

When we move into out new house we'll actually be about a mile and a half from the studio...if it wasn't for getting sweaty and then having to come home at 9:30 at night I'd probably walk or ride a bike.
Get an electric scooter.

[Mark Wein]

I'd really love to ride a bike. The problem is that all of the streets I have to travel are very high traffic...I wouldn't feel super safe without a car or truck around me.

I also need a way to get my kids around...my inlaws watch my kids in the afternoons at their business which is right around the corner from mine so I have to drop them off on the way to work...the exercise from biking would be awesome, though...

[Prages]

When we move into out new house we'll actually be about a mile and a half from the studio...if it wasn't for getting sweaty and then having to come home at 9:30 at night I'd probably walk or ride a bike.
Get an electric scooter.


Or one of these FTW!!!

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g83/CooperLilySadie/530167821_46c417fc83.jpg

[Mark Wein]

I was thinking this:

http://www.nearlygood.com/img/pics/pimpwheelchair.jpg

or this:

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c314/sportzboi/wheelchair.jpg

[Chihlidog]

2.99 yesterday. And I am HAPPY about it. :facepalm:

[Jake S.]

LOL I love the "what are you lookin at" face of the kid with the speaker-chair.

[thredlok]

When we move into out new house we'll actually be about a mile and a half from the studio...if it wasn't for getting sweaty and then having to come home at 9:30 at night I'd probably walk or ride a bike.
Get an electric scooter.


Or one of these FTW!!!

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g83/CooperLilySadie/530167821_46c417fc83.jpg

my children refer to those as "roller jabba's" as in jabba the hut on wheels ;D

[hobo]

Gas is about $5.00 a gallon here, was $6.00 last month so the prices are dropping fast. Gasoline cost about $70.00 a month for me here. I don't jog everywhere I go, I use a bicycle ;D

[Phil513]

Gas is about $5.00 a gallon here, was $6.00 last month so the prices are dropping fast. Gasoline cost about $70.00 a month for me here. I don't jog everywhere I go, I use a bicycle ;D


If i lived closer to work, i'd definately ride a bike.

But 35 miles one way, no way. hahaha

[Mark Wein]

We complain about the price of gas here in America but from what I understand we've had probably the lowest prices on fuel in the world...

[Chihlidog]

Yup, the Europeans get hammered on gas prices, which has led them to a much more efficient lifestyle. Many of their cities also are very old which helps. So many American cities were designed around the car, and so many European cities were designed BEFORE cars.

[xqqmytude]

Yeah, most Europeans/Asians don't need cars in the same way people who live in NY city don't need cars. Everything is close and if it isn't close, the local public transportation is equipped to deal with it. When I was in Spain, we can walk or take public transportation ANYWHERE. The buses were amazingly clean. COTA buses in Ohio smell like urine and have random bums and crazies hanging out. I'd take public transportation if it was efficient and convenient. To ride the bus would make my 45 minute commute a two hour commute. EFF THAT.

[Chihlidog]

Yeah, most Europeans/Asians don't need cars in the same way people who live in NY city don't need cars. Everything is close and if it isn't close, the local public transportation is equipped to deal with it. When I was in Spain, we can walk or take public transportation ANYWHERE. The buses were amazingly clean. COTA buses in Ohio smell like urine and have random bums and crazies hanging out. I'd take public transportation if it was efficient and convenient. To ride the bus would make my 45 minute commute a two hour commute. EFF THAT.


Tude, you have just summarized one of the primary reasons for American dependence on oil. To ride the bus would make a 45 minute commute into a 2 hour commute. Yes, that is true for many major cities in America. True in mine, as well.


I dont care who rides the bus or subway beside me. I care about time. My wife takes me to work in the morning because if she doesnt, I rely on a bus. If I take a bus, I must leave 45 minutes earlier, and if I am TWO minutes late getting to the bus, I wait for the next one which means I a, FORTY FIVE minutes late for work.


Take a city like NYC (and yes, I admit I am biased here because NYC is my absolute favorite place in the entire world.... But facts are still facts) if I take the subway, and am 5 mins late, I might be 10 late for work. MAYBE 15. If I am one second late here, I am almost an hour late for work.

THAT, plus the fact that IF I am lucky, and live somewhere outside the downtown area, I have to walk 6 or many more blocks to public transportation, and have NO option to bike or moped in due to traffic, hills, etc, I am plain screwed.

As I said, American cities are built around the automobile, which is equal to saying that American cities are built around cheap gasoline. PERIOD.

We FAIL without cheap gas. And our lifestyle over the last 50- 60 years has only increased our dependence on the car. Highways, malls, suburbs, poorly maintained inner-city housing stock, etc. We are a short-sighted and foolish nation.

Sorry, I quit now. My "field" is, for lack of a better term, city planning, and the U.S.A. has failed at it. EPIC fail in the truest sense of the term.

[JModius1972]

Yesterday for the first time in forever, gas dropped to $0.99/L (that's $3.78/gallon for those of you playing at home). We topped out at $1.47/L this summer ($5.55/gal) and that's when the US dollar and Canadian dollar were at par. Our van has a 96L tank in it, and there's a $100 limit per stop when you purchase gas on a credit card (we do it this way and pay it off at the end of the month to get uber air miles).

SOOOO..... we'd have to put the card in, pump the $100, put the card BACK IN and pump the rest. We were up around $600/month in gas while the wife was commuting to work. It sucked. Even now we're still around the $400 mark.

[Prages]

My commute is about 60 miles round trip.

Mrs. P's is about 100 round trip going the other direction.

If we hadn't gotten into the carpools, I'd have pretty much been working, just so we could afford to put gas in the cars to go to work.

[Mark Wein]

Ouch. For all of you :(

[Chihlidog]

6 miles to work for me. I take the bus home.

[thredlok]

If I had to spend that much on gas a month, I'd quit and find something closer.

That's too much in gas and vehicle maint. expense on top of that wouldn't make it worthwhile in my opinion :(

[JModius1972]

My wife is a teacher and the only thing that makes it worthwhile is how much they pay teachers in the school board she's in.  If she were to move to the one that we live in, the amount we'd save in gas wouldn't make up the amount she'd lose in salary.  Figure that one out.

And with that, I'm NO LONGER A NEWBIE! YAY!

[Mark Wein]

My wife is a teacher and the only thing that makes it worthwhile is how much they pay teachers in the school board she's in. If she were to move to the one that we live in, the amount we'd save in gas wouldn't make up the amount she'd lose in salary. Figure that one out.

And with that, I'm NO LONGER A NEWBIE! YAY!


Welcome, Jr. Member.

:wave:

;D

[JModius1972]

Welcome, Jr. Member.

:wave:

;D


http://x1.putfile.com/8/21511152451.gif

[Prages]

If I had to spend that much on gas a month, I'd quit and find something closer.

That's too much in gas and vehicle maint. expense on top of that wouldn't make it worthwhile in my opinion :(


We're in the boonies.

We could quit and find something closer, but the only businesses within 15 miles of our home are convenience stores and retail stores like Dollar General. They don't tend to pay as well, or have the kind of benefits that we've become accustomed to.

We live where we live because it's quiet, and it's a semi-mid point between our jobs. I've been trying to get a job in the same town Mrs. P works in (her job pays WAY more than mine does, so it only makes sense that I'd be the one looking to change jobs, even though I have the shorter commute).

[weebz]

My wife is a teacher and the only thing that makes it worthwhile is how much they pay teachers in the school board she's in. If she were to move to the one that we live in, the amount we'd save in gas wouldn't make up the amount she'd lose in salary. Figure that one out.

And with that, I'm NO LONGER A NEWBIE! YAY!


Welcome, Jr. Member.

:wave:

;D


He's not the only jr member round these parts. :)

[Mark Wein]

My wife is a teacher and the only thing that makes it worthwhile is how much they pay teachers in the school board she's in. If she were to move to the one that we live in, the amount we'd save in gas wouldn't make up the amount she'd lose in salary. Figure that one out.

And with that, I'm NO LONGER A NEWBIE! YAY!


Welcome, Jr. Member.

:wave:

;D


He's not the only jr member round these parts. :)


but where is YOUR dancing spiderman? ;D

[thredlok]

I understand, I grew up in the middle of no where. I live in the city now and really long for the good ole' serenity of "no where". I used to have and hour one way commute and that got pretty old quick.

dollar store jobs won't keep you on the right side of the poverty line :(

[xqqmytude]

My wife is a teacher and the only thing that makes it worthwhile is how much they pay teachers in the school board she's in. If she were to move to the one that we live in, the amount we'd save in gas wouldn't make up the amount she'd lose in salary. Figure that one out.

And with that, I'm NO LONGER A NEWBIE! YAY!


Welcome, Jr. Member.

:wave:

;D


He's not the only jr member round these parts. :)


but where is YOUR dancing spiderman? ;D
You know better than to ask him that.

[JModius1972]

My wife is a teacher and the only thing that makes it worthwhile is how much they pay teachers in the school board she's in. If she were to move to the one that we live in, the amount we'd save in gas wouldn't make up the amount she'd lose in salary. Figure that one out.

And with that, I'm NO LONGER A NEWBIE! YAY!


Welcome, Jr. Member.

:wave:

;D


He's not the only jr member round these parts. :)


Yes and yours happened much, much faster mister 7.5 posts per day. >:(

;D

[Prages]

dollar store jobs won't keep you on the right side of the poverty line :(


Indeed.

[weebz]

My wife is a teacher and the only thing that makes it worthwhile is how much they pay teachers in the school board she's in. If she were to move to the one that we live in, the amount we'd save in gas wouldn't make up the amount she'd lose in salary. Figure that one out.

And with that, I'm NO LONGER A NEWBIE! YAY!


Welcome, Jr. Member.

:wave:

;D


He's not the only jr member round these parts. :)


Yes and yours happened much, much faster mister 7.5 posts per day. >:(

;D


I know, which is weird because I'm usually such a shy poster. :)

[JModius1972]

My wife is a teacher and the only thing that makes it worthwhile is how much they pay teachers in the school board she's in.  If she were to move to the one that we live in, the amount we'd save in gas wouldn't make up the amount she'd lose in salary.  Figure that one out.

And with that, I'm NO LONGER A NEWBIE!  YAY! 


Welcome, Jr. Member.

:wave:

;D


He's not the only jr member round these parts.   :)


Yes and yours happened much, much faster mister 7.5 posts per day.   >:(

;D


I know, which is weird because I'm usually such a shy poster.   :)


I've noticed that about you. 'Specially since OSU aren't quite the team they were last year. Are the two connected in some way?