AAA is claiming that Americans drove 4.3% fewer miles on public roads in March — the first year-over-year decline since 1979, and that for the first time since 2002, Americans said they planned to drive less this Memorial Day weekend. So, with the national average at $3.936 per gallon, did you actually drive less?
Holiday travelers paying more for gas [CNNMoney]
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I get 36mpg in my Elantra so no, it didn’t affect me all that much.
My grandmother having her gallbladder out did as I had to basically help take care of her house and what not.
@chewiemeat: As for food. What are you guys smoking? Or maybe you live in some sort of impossible to get to region of the country, because I’m not having any trouble finding food at the store and it’s not absurdly expensive. It might be slightly more expensive than last year (maybe) but I wouldn’t know for sure. I definitely haven’t noticed it while shopping though.
Dittos. Granted, we shop a lot more at BJs than we used to. We’re getting pork ribs at $2 a lb and hamburg not much more. Heck, we even got steaks for not much more than that.
Oh and rice being out of control? They had a 25 lb back for around $22 for Jasmine.
The drive-by media wants this economy to be bad and have everyone panicked. If you guys want a recession, that’s your business. I will not participate.
Nope! Drove 1,200 miles round trip in my SUV, thanks much!
Family drove from Indy to Chicago over the weekend. Have to say…gas is obviously keeping a lot of people at home. The Skyway and Dan Ryan Expressway were empty coming up and going home – made record time! Up and back on one tank of gas ~ $65 – cheaper than taking the train.
Plus, the Cubs won. Doesn’t get much better than that.
My husband and I began carpooling to work. When I have to drive separately, I buy only the gas needed to get me to my destination.
We are combining errands and doing as much shopping as possible on Thursday nights.
We try to use the Toyota ECHO when we drive instead of my Suburu Forester. The ECHO gets 41 mpg, and while it’s not that comfortable, I’ll live.
This weekend, we chose to stay in instead of going out to the movies. We did visit friends, but we traveled together and combined trips.
I’m not so sure it’s completely about the price of gas. It’s also about the price of food and everything else that has eroded our budget.
@Git Em SteveDave:
That logic only works if all you do is drive to go on vacation. Problem is, every time you fill up your car, the rising cost of gasoline is taking money away from that which you could have spent on vacation. So it isn’t just the $100 bucks extra to drive somewhere on vacation, but the money that is being pulled out of your vacation fund to pay for the rising cost of gasoline, food, energy, etc.
Gas by me was $4.18, I stayed in town instead of going up north camping, most of my friends did also.
@Git Em SteveDave:
If your not concerned about the gas prices or the economy you must be somebody with plenty of money? Or maybe you are one of those making money off the gas prices?
That extra $100.00 that would have been spent on gas could have been put towards an extra night in a hotel room.
At this time people have a hard time putting gas in their vehicles to make it to their jobs. Not to mention buying groceries for their family.
If we keep dishing out the money for the high priced gas it will only keep going up. If everyone would stick together & refuse to go on their vacations maybe we would see prices drop.
Despite trying not to drive anywhere all weekend my genius of a girlfriend decided to go for a drive for 3 hours wasting about half the gas I just put in the car.