I drive a Toyota Tercel... tomorrow it will cost me $50 to fill the tank

[HEyHEY]

WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT ABOUT?

If this continues over to October, I'm telling my boss I need a raise.
It will now cost me $120 to drive to Vancouver for a weekend... a return flight is roughly that much...
yeesh.

Anyone else in a sistuation where the price of fuel really will hurt their wallet? What are your plans?

[kerryin2004]

1. yeah baby..

Everyone is hurting.. I live in a good climate so I will try to get rid of the truck and find me a cheap motorcycle.. Unfortunately how much demand will I find for a truck that only gets 18 mpg?

[still_one]

2. I highly recommend the Toyota Prius

either the first or second generation

without trying you can get 40-45 MPG, you won't do better than that with a motorcycle believe it or not

[kerryin2004]

17. yeah but I can buy a new motorcycle for 4000.

I am a on a budget that wouldn't afford a PRius.

[still_one]

20. understand

a user 2001 prius would cost you about 12000 - 13000

[kiraboo]

3. Yup. My husband has to drive an hour to work. We are sending

him with an air mattress, a toothbrush and a change of clothes. He will spend much of the week either in his office on campus, or at the homes of friends who have offered to house him. And I am terrified of what it's going to cost to heat our home here in Maine. I have only a termporary job which runs out in January. Then we're screwed.

[sundog]

4. $40 to fill up tonight

i'm sick with it, i really don't know how i feel right now

[HEyHEY]

5. What are you driving?

[sundog]

7. a mini van

i was completely empty

[JVS]

6. I live a few blocks from work, so I can walk

I drive a bit each week for church, groceries, quick runs to the office at night and hanging out with friends. I think I might start taking the bus to friends' houses.

Get one of these http://www.vespacanada.com/index.cfm

[Reverend_Smitty]

8. I'm in college

and I have to commute to a high school every day as a major requirement...the college is certainly not giving me any money for gas. I drive a Maxima with 150,000 miles on it so I am in no financial position to buy a hybrid car. I topped off my tank at $32.50 and it probably would cost me at least $40.00 to fill the damn thing. I'm honestly not sure what I'm going to do if this is a long term thing.

[mitchum]

9. It cost $30 to fill my freakin' Civic!

I remember when it was $9.25

[LisaL]

10. And that's why I use a bus.

:evilfrown:

[HEyHEY]

12. Yeah, I would if there was one here

That's why I miss the city.... from where I lived it was a 45 minute drive downtown...plus gas insurance...on and on
But for $125 a month I could get a month transit pass and take teh Westcoast express, looking at a gorgeous view of ocean and mountains, relax, listen to my walkman and read the newspaper.... flirt with cute girls with good careers... and get downtown in 25 minutes

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

11. Cost $37 to fill our Mitsubishi Outlander (it was on "E")

We can afford it, thank God, but it's still thoroughly disgusting. I'd like to get a hybrid of some sort when our lease is up in 2008 (if the world still exists at that time).

[dolo amber]

13. I plan to find some Canadian

who has the same birthday as me, strap his ass to a rickshaw and YEEEE-HAW!!!!!!! :bounce:

Oh...and if he does a good job, I'll show him my panties. ;)

[HEyHEY]

14. Rickshaw work would be good for me

I could use the exercise

[tigereye]

18. I saw people in SF who were pulling rickshaws or

pedicabs. It was kind of disturbing.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

15. I have my mom's Camry

It's a great car, but it cost me $44.00 to fill it up last time. Thank God my mom has a good job because between that and my $6 required medication I. Am. Screwed. I have started biking. Which is good, but I don't know how people who don't have that option can cope.

[BiggJawn]

16. $44 this AM. Glad I didn't wait until AFTER work!

Then it would have cost me $49.50...

Wish my gig was such that I could "Telecommute".

Guess they're gonna have to get used to my rinsed-out Lycra bike shorts dripping in the back room...

[enigmatic]

19. What's the gas prices there?

It's going up 20 cents tomorrow; 1.25-30 a litre on average here now..

[HEyHEY]

21. I paid 109.9 here today..supposed to be about 1.25.9 tomorrow

[Hand]

22. Was 1.10.9 yesterday morning in Halifax....

...this evening it's 1.38.9.

US DUers: That's per litre--works out to roughly $5.50/gal.

$60.50 to gas up my Ford Escort from empty...

[no name no slogan]

23. But that's Canadian dollars, so it's not "real" money

:o

I just put 12.5 US gallons in my Mercury Sable this afternoon. That was the first time I've EVER paid over $30 to fill the tank-- damn near $40.

Gas at the "cheap" station was "only" $2.99/gallon today. That means it was at least $3.10/gallon in the poor neighborhoods. Bloody oil companies gouging the poor. meh.

[derby378]

24. That's why I filled my tank on Monday evening

It was my wife's idea. ginbarn is so smart.

[hippiechick]

25. I'm parking my Sentra when this tankful runs out ...

... gonna start biking back and forth to work (6-7 miles each way).
I should have done it when prices hit $2.00/gal last spring.

It's a nice time of year, and the exercise will do me good.


:)

[Jamastiene]

26. I drive a Nissan Sentra. I can remember when about $13 would fill her up.

It's a rant, but I had to say it.

I'm outraged. They have suspended new gas shipments in NC and now they are saying that when NC and SC run out of gas, they are going to stop all gas sales for 3 days. I have some news for them. If they do that, I'll quit driving to the college and start emailing teachers directly for assignments. If anyone, and I mean anyone tries to kick me out for it, I'll be contacting someone somewhere to take care of it. I don't care who at this point. I'm furious and as hard as it is to say this, I don't think it's all Bush. I think he's the sorriest excuse for a president we have ever had, but I've seen too much price gouging, news media filming dying people, but doing nothing to help them, rock starts performing concerts to throw money at a situation once again to no avail. They've already raised 93 million dollars. How much does it cost to take a freaking fishing boat and paddle around and rescue people if nothing else? Where are the rescuers? Why has it taken 5 days before a few have even bothered to try? And where the fuck has that money gone.

And as angry as those people who are trapped at the Superdome have been, don'tcha think the news media would have been lined up with cameras rolling when the so called rescue attempts were made with the helicopters? And if those gunshots were really fired, don't you think they would have had some footage of it? Let's stop apologizing and making excuses when we know the truth. If the majority of those faces on the cameras for the last 4 days had been upper middle class white faces, rescuers would have been there by Monday night, Tuesday morning at the LATEST. I'm not buying the bullshit. Even ABC has had an editorial piece on about how news media is covering the "looting" going on down there. The white people are "finding much needed food and water at a local grocery store" while the blacks are "looting grocery stores". How much clearer does the racist reaction need to be before someone will admit that it's as clear as the red bloodshot nose on Bush's face?

And yes, if someone prods me a little tonight, I'll diss the Red Cross too. As much money as they constantly collect and as much blood as they suck out of people, how come there is never any blood or money to help when someone needs it?
:mad:

[fortyfeetunder]

27. Riding a bike and carpooling

This week I am riding my little ol' bike to work. Once the kid's school starts, guess I'll carpool with the spouse to offset some of the fuel bills. Can't really bike when there are kids to be picked up from school. My work schedule will change but that's the way it is.

[TroubleMan]

28. I just got a 2005 Aveo....gets about 30 miles to the gallon

My old clunker broke on me. I can't afford the Prius or Insight.

Also....it's got an MP3 player. :)

[miss_kitty]

29. That $50 *Canadian*, right?

:evilgrin:

[u4ic]

30. That's about $1,869 USD

See, what are y'all complaining about? :shrug:

[politicat]

31. We have a 40 MG hyundai accent... and yet, we're moving.

This weekend, we're finishing up the renovation on the house; Next week I pack, next weekend, we move to about 7 miles from DH's work and onto the bus line (this house is not on the bus line). The renovating house is .5 miles from a grocer, post office, lumberyard, hardware store, thrift store and less than 2 miles from a library, the community center, etc.

The car will get used on weekends and in really bad weather, when waiting for the bus in the rain/snow would likely be dangerous.

The cats can come on the bus with us as long as they're in their boxes. I have a little old lady shopping cart.

Katrina was the cure for obesity, I'll give her that much....

[Not_Giving_Up]

32. I paid $29 to put just over 10 gallons in my Corolla tonight

I filled it all the way up. I wasn't empty yet, but I was afraid to wait one more day...the way prices are going up. The good news is, I'll get nearly 400 miles of driving out of that.