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04/21/2008 04:51:20 PM · #26 |
I've been taking the bus to work for nearly 12 years now. Sure ... it takes more than twice as long to get to work. Sure it's not nearly as convenient as driving. But the savings in the cost of fuel, vehicle maintenance, gray hairs, etc, has all been worth it. :-)
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04/21/2008 05:02:09 PM · #27 |
Trading down to get a better MPG can be fun, 1200 miles around Wales returned 56MPG and 1800 miles to the Inner Hebredes returned 53MPG.
Four Star and less than a pound (sterling) a gallon - who remembers that? |
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04/21/2008 05:17:38 PM · #28 |
I am stuck.
I drive a Nissan, 6 banger PU Truck. I love Nissan. I love PU trucks.
In the industry I call my career, I don't have a 9-5pm, one stop place of business to call work.
I am all over S.CA.. The saying is "all of LA is a stage".
Luckily, I am starting an HBO show tomorrow, and it is being shot right here in my kneck of the woods. First time in 21 years I am working close to home.
Now if Nissan built a hybrid PU truck....that would be cool.
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04/21/2008 05:28:08 PM · #29 |
Urban sprawl and overpopulation don't help the matter. I work about 12 miles from home - but I know people that drive over an hour each way to work. They complain about prices.
Personally I fill-up about every other week or so. It's usually about 35$ or so.
My car is rated 44/37 mpg which is good by today's standards - but to help mileage a bit I usually pop it into neutral whenever I hit a long downhill or am getting off an exit. I also try to avoid revving too high. |
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04/21/2008 05:30:47 PM · #30 |
| My two personal vehicles are a VW Jetta diesel (47 mpg) and a Honda ST100 motorcycle (46 mpg). I used to commute 208 mi/day, 4 days per week (832 mi/wk), and I've shortened that to 54 mi/day, 5 days per week (270 mi/wk). As a family we're still lacking in coordination to eliminate/combine trips as well as we might, but with fuel costs continuing to rise we will certainly be looking at that. In the winter, I also may look at ride sharing, although I work for a small company and have a variable schedule that does not lend itself to that. |
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04/21/2008 05:34:41 PM · #31 |
Originally posted by Tirasco:
Actually, I'm comparing the cost of Feed to the cost of Gas, and looking in to buying a Horse. |
I'm paying $ 7.50 for local hay/bale, $ 12.50/bale for alfalfa. |
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04/21/2008 05:35:20 PM · #32 |
I haven't changed my habits because of the price of gas.
I'm getting fat, so I'm hoping to ride my bike to work (about 3 miles one way). However, I drive a commuter bus for a living and am helping numerous other people save money (does that count)? |
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04/21/2008 05:43:27 PM · #33 |
My wife and I have already cancelled our trip to see my family over Memorial day, we've also scrapped two planned trips to Utah this summer.
I work from home all the time- saving a 60 mile roundtrip to the office five days a week, really four days because I still have to make the drive for groceries.
Speaking of groceries. I figured up that compared to April 15, 2007, we now spend $80 per week more on groceries. The truly scary thing about this is my wife and I are on a get healthy routine. More vegetables, less meat-in fact our calorie intake is 2/3 of what it was a year ago. We also have switched to generic on everything we can. Last saturday when we went to buy groceries we tracked what we used to buy, and discovered if we hadn't become healthy our grocery bill would have increased almost $120 per week. I hope the oil companies enjoy their profits as they put the rest of us into bankruptcy.
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04/22/2008 01:35:39 AM · #34 |
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04/22/2008 08:38:50 AM · #35 |
Originally posted by pix-al:
Originally posted by paynekj:
Here in the UK it's reckoned that about 80% of the price at the pump is tax.
Here's something I just found Gas Prices around the world |
I think it is around 50ish%...
That link is 3 years out of date. Be interesting to see an updated table. |
I should know better than to quote urban myths! - According to The AA fuel price report April 2008 the average tax burden on UK bought 95 octane unleaded is about 62%. (UK average price £1.081 per litre)
The report also has Europe and USA prices.
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04/22/2008 08:50:38 AM · #36 |
Originally posted by paynekj:
I should know better than to quote urban myths! - According to The AA fuel price report April 2008 the average tax burden on UK bought 95 octane unleaded is about 62%. (UK average price £1.081 per litre)
The report also has Europe and USA prices. |
According to that report the US pays about HALF of what Europe does for gas. And we whine twice as loud about it. ;) |
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04/22/2008 08:51:40 AM · #37 |
Originally posted by zeuszen:
Originally posted by Tirasco:
Actually, I'm comparing the cost of Feed to the cost of Gas, and looking in to buying a Horse. |
I'm paying $ 7.50 for local hay/bale, $ 12.50/bale for alfalfa. |
The crazy thing is that prices on hay have gone through the roof as well. Everything and anything is being inflated due to gas prices. |
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04/22/2008 09:31:01 AM · #38 |
Let OPEC pay for our fresh drinking water, $300 a barrel.
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04/22/2008 09:42:15 AM · #39 |
Cost of fuel + cost of food = a large part of why I don't shoot much anymore. I can't spare the money to get the few miles to the places I shoot. Only "my" beach is within walking distance for me, and y'all have seen that a gazillion times... I live on a fixed income and it is shrinking precipitously.
R. |
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04/27/2008 03:59:24 PM · #40 |
Coming back to this thread....
On Friday (4/25) the lowest price per gallon I could find was $3.71- an increase of 20 cents per gallon over the previous week.
Message edited by author 2008-04-27 15:59:46.
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04/27/2008 04:06:28 PM · #41 |
Originally posted by Ecce Signum:
Trading down to get a better MPG can be fun, 1200 miles around Wales returned 56MPG and 1800 miles to the Inner Hebredes returned 53MPG.
Four Star and less than a pound (sterling) a gallon - who remembers that? |
I remember back in 1973, I could fill the tank of my Austin A40 for less than £1!!
I pay 10 pence to pump up my tyres, but I guess that's inflation! :)
Message edited by author 2008-04-27 16:06:55. |
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04/27/2008 04:08:26 PM · #42 |
Why the heck don't we drill up in Alaska for oil, thats probably the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
Why should we depend on oil from the Middle East, from where most of the countries leaders don't exactly like us all that much. It would be much more efficient/cheaper to be self dependent.
eta: I want this car
Message edited by author 2008-04-27 16:09:16.
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04/27/2008 04:19:59 PM · #43 |
| Right now in Montreal, Canada, I'm paying 5.23CDN per US gallon. And it seems we haven't seen anything yet. Great. |
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04/27/2008 04:28:31 PM · #44 |
| My wife works 30 miles to the south and I work 45 miles to the north, so we log about 150 miles/day on our vehicles and there's no easy way around it other than one of us quitting our job, sell the house & move. We also have irregular schedules that require travel as orchestra teachers, so commuting with others doesn't work :( Hybrid cars keep seeming more and more economical. |
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04/27/2008 04:32:24 PM · #45 |
Originally posted by ZeppKash:
Originally posted by paynekj:
I should know better than to quote urban myths! - According to The AA fuel price report April 2008 the average tax burden on UK bought 95 octane unleaded is about 62%. (UK average price £1.081 per litre)
The report also has Europe and USA prices. |
According to that report the US pays about HALF of what Europe does for gas. And we whine twice as loud about it. ;) |
And today the cheapest petrol in York was £1.07 a litre :¬( |
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04/27/2008 04:41:38 PM · #46 |
well we do a lot of energy conservation around my house to make up for the extra increase in fuel. We try to live GREEN as possible. But I drive a Tahoe that takes way too much gas, and I have no other option at this point (cant go get another car.)
I try not to drive as much... only to and from my son's school. So I dont get out as much to do photography like I would like.
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04/27/2008 04:50:08 PM · #47 |
I've been taking the bus to work for about three years. When I started my new job, I figured between gas, tolls and parking, I'd save about $2000 a year. I just recalculated and it's now $2500. Somehow, it doesn't make me feel any better to be saving $500 more.
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04/27/2008 05:50:20 PM · #48 |
My commute to work is 1.5 miles. So 3 miles round trip. So I have no complaints.
Message edited by author 2008-04-27 17:50:35.
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