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Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: Mini 9
Date: April 20, 2011 04:31PM
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Of course, the bubble/prices will pop with all the talk about it, now.
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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: mattkime
Date: April 20, 2011 04:37PM
i ride a bike.


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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: mikebw
Date: April 20, 2011 04:48PM
Weather is nice enough now I will probably start biking anyway, but no, not really looking forward to $6.
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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: Lew Zealand
Date: April 20, 2011 04:50PM
I cut out the basics like cable TV, cell phone contracts, and daily Starbucks just to afford the luxury item knows as gasoline.

No, wait. I drive a 28 year old car that requires minimal maintenance because a monthly payment on a new car completely swamps the negligible cost of gas, even at European rates.
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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: DharmaDog
Date: April 20, 2011 04:52PM
How does one prepare for it?
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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: John B.
Date: April 20, 2011 04:59PM
I've been keeping an eye on prices of used late '90s/early '00s Accords and Camrys on the off chance that I get a new job requiring a longer commute, and the prices have trended up steadily as the cost per gallon of gas has increased.



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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: davester
Date: April 20, 2011 05:05PM
Not a problem. I'm used to paying $8+/gal when I visit friends/relatives in Europe, and I ride my bike to work about 1/2 time. We intentionally picked a living situation close to work to reduce our fuel usage (not to mention commuting aggravation).


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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: Z
Date: April 20, 2011 05:16PM
Inexpensive, reliable used car that I can maintain myself that is reasonably efficient (mid 20s mpg).
Live close to work (in town - just moved to new office 6.5 miles away versus former 3.5 mi jaunt).
Ride bicycle (~13 mi RT).
Ride motorcycle (50+ mpg).
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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: dmann
Date: April 20, 2011 05:20PM
I drive for a living. I paid $4.29 yesterday in suburban Chicago ($4.49 in the city) so yes, I am prepared. I will be traveling as little as I can and still keep my job.

DM
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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: steve...
Date: April 20, 2011 05:24PM
I put about 4 thousand miles a year on my little truck, so it's not such a big deal.

I think we'll see lots more like this for sale...




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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: Mike Johnson
Date: April 20, 2011 05:32PM
I love how a modest increase in the gas tax would be a calamity.
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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: Paul F.
Date: April 20, 2011 06:01PM
I wasn't "prepared" for Federal Gold Medal Match .308 ammo to go to $36 a box either...
And yet I coped.


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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: davester
Date: April 20, 2011 06:38PM
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Lew Zealand
No, wait. I drive a 28 year old car that requires minimal maintenance because a monthly payment on a new car completely swamps the negligible cost of gas, even at European rates.

There is a happy medium between those two extremes you know. Most of us who care about our money buy newer used cars. Monthly payments on cars are generally for the less thrifty.


"In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion." (1987) -- Carl Sagan
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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: M>B>
Date: April 20, 2011 07:09PM
MILES PER DOLLAR

To put a different perspective on it calculate how many miles you can drive for a dollar?

(My car gets 36 mpg so I am driving 9 miles for a dollar! Based pm 4 $ gas.)
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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: Acer
Date: April 20, 2011 07:12PM
As a Prius owner, I feel more smug every day.
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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: Black
Date: April 20, 2011 07:18PM
I feel prepared. Hopefully it will translate to more demand for transit build-out not too far down the road.
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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: Dakota
Date: April 20, 2011 07:19PM
Thomas Friedman can't contain himself.


After you discover you're riding a dead horse, your best strategy is to dismount.
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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: decay
Date: April 20, 2011 07:20PM
it's not a calamity, but it has wide-reaching effects.

for one, less money in everyone's budget for other stuff.
less discretionary spending means other things suffer, like restaurants - where people work. people get laid off.

cost of stuff like food starts to go up because shipping costs increase. now people have even less money to spend.

recession, good to see you again! it seems like we just left you!

of course, those segments of the economy that the very wealthy spend money on are barely affected. like Tiffany's - they saw almost no drop in business over the past few years.


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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: hal
Date: April 20, 2011 07:24PM
yes, I'm ready - bring it on...

Work at home. Live 1 block from the grocery store. A mile away from nice nature area for hikes and such.

My car may site idle for a week at a time.

And you can't believe how many times I find notes on my old 94 corolla wagon asking me if I wanna sell.

NO!!!

What I'm NOT ready for is price inflation of EVERYTHING ELSE that will occur then.
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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: space-time
Date: April 20, 2011 07:27PM
buy oil stocks
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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: Z
Date: April 20, 2011 07:39PM
Work in the oil sector?
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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: sunfalcon
Date: April 20, 2011 07:48PM
It will not go to $6.00. I remember a few years ago when everyone was talking about $9 gas - never made it.

What gets me is the last time gas was near $4.00 - oil was over $140/barrel. It's all ridiculous!

Love my civic - but it still sucks!
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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: Rick-o
Date: April 20, 2011 07:53PM
Everything is going up, except the working class's income. Why is that?

Have YOU had a raise in income in the past five years that was enough to keep up with all the price increases of late? Or maybe it's worse. You may have even lost your job.

Stuffs getting better? Yeah, for some. eye rolling smiley


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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: Mini 9
Date: April 20, 2011 07:54PM
My raises, if any, did not keep up with cost of insurance + cost of good and services we consume at home, over the past decade, I think.
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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: blooz
Date: April 20, 2011 07:58PM
Well I'm 20 miles from anything except the excellent deli here in town which already has higher prices on most things because of size and location.
I'll be growing veggies in the summer, but winter will find me huddling in front of my fireplace gnawing on root vegetables until next April.


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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: decay
Date: April 20, 2011 08:17PM
my only good news is i don't have to drive 130 miles per day to work; instead it's 10 miles to/from work.

miles driven for work are reimbursed at 50 cents per.
which is the main reason i can't ride my bike to work - must be ready to drive at a moment's notice.


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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: space-time
Date: April 20, 2011 08:21PM
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decay
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which is the main reason i can't ride my bike to work - must be ready to drive at a moment's notice.

leave your car AT work. Bike to Home.
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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: space-time
Date: April 20, 2011 08:23PM
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Rick-o
Everything is going up, except the working class's income. Why is that?

Have YOU had a raise in income in the past five years that was enough to keep up with all the price increases of late? ...

I just had an 8% raise (on top of the 4% I got in January).



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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: Dakota
Date: April 20, 2011 08:35PM
Note to all. Oil will crash as soon as National Geographic comes out with cover story End of Cheap Oil. Again.


After you discover you're riding a dead horse, your best strategy is to dismount.
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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: sekker
Date: April 20, 2011 09:26PM
$5 WILL happen this year in some places. $6 is completely within reason.

What I am sorry is that we do not have many, many other no-oil options - like truly competitively priced electric cars.

I drive a 6 year-old Honda hybrid. I purchased it because it's a ULEV - ultra low emission vehicle - rather than on pure economics in 2005. The hybrid component of the original price has long since paid for itself.

I expect to keep this car for many, many years. I'm looking at a Nissan Leaf for a commuter car.
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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: decay
Date: April 20, 2011 09:36PM
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space-time
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decay
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which is the main reason i can't ride my bike to work - must be ready to drive at a moment's notice.

leave your car AT work. Bike to Home.

i might try that now that the weather's getting warmer.

except i have a backpack with a 17in macbook pro, and i like to pack a lunch to save money; my lunch bag is unweildy to carry on a mountain bike. i don't have a rack on the back. might take some planning.

thing is, i won't save much on gas by not driving 10 miles round trip, even at $6 a gallon. 30 MPG car, so 3 days on $6 is cheaper than most bus fare.


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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: Grateful11
Date: April 20, 2011 09:52PM
My wife had to buy 200 gallons of off road Diesel yesterday for the farm. $765.00, ouch! At least it only had 1% sales tax on it.


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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: decay
Date: April 20, 2011 10:10PM
premium is one cent shy of $5/gal in Connecticut.

and it's over $5/gal in D.C.

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my next car:





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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: Speedy
Date: April 20, 2011 11:06PM
Not a problem for me, I enjoy shipping my money to the middle east. And making speculators even richer as the oil companies screw me over.


Saint Cloud, Minnesota, where the weather is wonderful even when it isn't.
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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: C(-)ris
Date: April 20, 2011 11:22PM
I picked up a 2000 Saturn about 6 months ago, it gets around 32mpg if I drive it normally. If I drive like I want to get run off the road it can get 36. That replaced a 2000 Police Interceptor that got 14 to 18mpg. I did the math and at $3.50 a gallon the Saturn completely paid for the purchase price in gas savings in 25,000 miles. That is less than a year of driving for me, mostly in the city.

My wife commutes about 30 miles a day to school, she was driving the Suburban. That was getting around 10-12mpg. Got her a 1996 Toyota Camry right after I got my Saturn. That gets about 32mpg for her. That one paid for itself in 4 months in gas savings.

We still have the Suburban, and use it occasionally to haul large items, pickup project cars, or help people move. But I make them pay for gas now. Takes $150 to fill the tank these days.

I was amazed at how quickly a car that gets good gas mileage pays for itself. I was also amazed at how much I was spending a year in gas. nuts smiley


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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: modelamac
Date: April 21, 2011 07:36AM
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DharmaDog
How does one prepare for it?

I was about to ask the same.


Ed (modelamac)

I think I will just put an OUT OF ORDER
sticker on my head and call it a day.
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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: trisho.
Date: April 21, 2011 08:05AM
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decay
i might try that now that the weather's getting warmer.

except i have a backpack with a 17in macbook pro, and i like to pack a lunch to save money; my lunch bag is unweildy to carry on a mountain bike. i don't have a rack on the back. might take some planning.

thing is, i won't save much on gas by not driving 10 miles round trip, even at $6 a gallon. 30 MPG car, so 3 days on $6 is cheaper than most bus fare.

You can get what are called panniers to go on your bike so you carry your laptop, lunch and other things you may need: [www.google.com]


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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: billb
Date: April 21, 2011 09:15AM
gasoline/diesel prices are also the home heating oil prices in the Northeast.


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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: maco
Date: April 21, 2011 10:06AM
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Acer
As a Prius owner, I feel more smug every day.

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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: Lew Zealand
Date: April 21, 2011 11:42AM
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davester
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Lew Zealand
No, wait. I drive a 28 year old car that requires minimal maintenance because a monthly payment on a new car completely swamps the negligible cost of gas, even at European rates.

There is a happy medium between those two extremes you know. Most of us who care about our money buy newer used cars. Monthly payments on cars are generally for the less thrifty.

I was thinking just that when I posted but I just don't do used cars (yet?) because I like the control of knowing how the car has been used and abused because I'm the one doing it. Buying a generally reliable make & model will of course mitigate that concern somewhat.

Even so, a decent $8-12K used car is still a lot of $ compared to how much gas costs. Mrs. Z and I made a different compromise: we live in greater LA-LA land but we hate commuting so we bought <4 miles from work and we work at the same place. So our gas use is smaller due to less driving, not high MPG.
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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: the_poochies
Date: April 21, 2011 11:58AM
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billb
gasoline/diesel prices are also the home heating oil prices in the Northeast.

That's what is killing me. I walk to work and I only drive approx 5,000 miles/year, so I really don't car much about high gasoline prices. When home heating oil costs $4.29/gallon and I have to fill up my 275 gal tank 4x/year, it can get obscenely expensive just to maintain the thermostat at 68F when we're home.



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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: AllGold
Date: April 21, 2011 01:37PM
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C(-)ris
...We still have the Suburban, and use it occasionally to haul large items, pickup project cars, or help people move. But I make them pay for gas now. Takes $150 to fill the tank these days.

I was amazed at how quickly a car that gets good gas mileage pays for itself. I was also amazed at how much I was spending a year in gas. nuts smiley

Smart moves.

What gets me is people who continue to drive land yachts because they "like a bigger vehicle" or "feel safer in a big vehicle" or whatever AND simultaneously bitch about the price of gas.

It's a free country; you can drive whatever you want. But if you choose to drive a gas guzzler as your commuter vehicle then @#$%& about gas prices.
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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: hal
Date: April 21, 2011 02:13PM
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sunfalcon
It will not go to $6.00. I remember a few years ago when everyone was talking about $9 gas - never made it.

What gets me is the last time gas was near $4.00 - oil was over $140/barrel. It's all ridiculous!

Love my civic - but it still sucks!

yer nuts! :-)

I remember when most people believed that gas would never reach $1/g and if it did, they'd never buy gas again...

It's a finite supply, of course it'll reach $6... then $10.... then $20

forever is a long time....
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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: decay
Date: April 21, 2011 03:59PM
don't forget to boycott XXX gas on XXX day to show them our power...

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Re: Are you prepared for $USA 6/gallon gasoline?
Posted by: Z
Date: April 21, 2011 04:17PM
So I shouldn't talk about the Alaska bush, where fuel is $7-10/gal, at least?
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