has the cost of gas slowed your summer plans

renovation · Post by **renovation** » Fri May 23, 2008 9:05 pm

i know for me and the wife it has. just last night we were asked if we be interested in going to Munising ,Michigan for a week, with the wifes sister & brother in-law. but with the price of gas. we decided to pass this year. its like 375 miles each way and gas going to be maybe around $5 gallon we said sorry. figure it cost us like $150 just for fuel .then theres hotel, meals ,extra spending cost. was easy to figure we might be talking $600.-$1000 for the week. plus i know we will rent a pontoon boat for a day. can't go up there with out looking at picture rocks national lakeshore without doing this it's a must see!
so we figure we just do some local getaways this summer with the price of GAS.
it just cost us like $250 to drive the inlaws car back to michigan one way from Clearwater ,Florida last week. and gas was as low as $3.65 to $3.95 gallon on are way up I-75 .

DoPeY5007 · Post by **DoPeY5007** » Fri May 23, 2008 9:37 pm

nitro237 · Post by **nitro237** » Fri May 23, 2008 9:42 pm

smb · Post by **smb** » Sat May 24, 2008 12:08 am

nope. i'm relocating next week to boise idaho.

Invisible Evil · Post by **Invisible Evil** » Sat May 24, 2008 7:59 am

nope, still loosing money.

b-man1 · Post by **b-man1** » Sat May 24, 2008 8:13 am

it's not affecting me yet...i have a short commute to work, so one-off trips don't matter much to me. the other effects are what suck...stock market effects...food costs, etc. just the cumulative is what will get us.

on the GOOD side of this: less teenage punks cruising around town polluting the neighborhood with ghetto boom-cars, etc.

mile hehehehe

Pugsley · Post by **Pugsley** » Sat May 24, 2008 9:33 am

b-man1 wrote:on the GOOD side of this: less teenage punks cruising around town polluting the neighborhood with ghetto boom-cars, etc. mile hehehehe

You know your right. I have noticed less of that around here this season.

tunis5000 · Post by **tunis5000** » Sat May 24, 2008 2:16 pm

nope I don't worry about it, I don't drive a 5 tonne SUV

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Sat May 24, 2008 2:41 pm

Nope, of course, my mother would kill me if I didn't visit her at least once a year. Being 1000 miles each way is killing me though. Even if I get a fuel efficient car.

on the GOOD side of this: less teenage punks cruising around town polluting the neighborhood with ghetto boom-cars, etc. hehehehe

That was the same thing I was thinking. I guess the kids in my neighborhood have more money though, because they are still driving around.

Karchiveur · Post by **Karchiveur** » Sat May 24, 2008 3:21 pm

Not at all.
I work at suncor.
Free gas/diesel everyday

And I drive 3200km to go home and back. I'll be doin that twice this summer.

Edit, and yeah, it's a boom box aswell, quality though, not those garbage toneless subs.

impuresoul2k3 · Post by **impuresoul2k3** » Sat May 24, 2008 9:48 pm

Yeah it sucks(Jeep Grand Cherokee), and I bitch and moan, but I still pay it. I mean gotta get to work somehow and I don't want to get there all sweaty from biking.

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Sat May 24, 2008 10:07 pm

I'm in a carpool currently with 3 guys. We switch each day. I do have to drive 2 miles to the central location, and its a total of 28 miles to work one way. We are planning on adding one more person to the carpool, so the pain in filling is not that bad for my 2001 Ford F150 Crew Cab.

eGoCeNTRoNiX · Post by **eGoCeNTRoNiX** » Sun May 25, 2008 12:00 am

I went from driving an F-150 w/5.4L V8 to driving a Dodge Magnum with a 3.5L V6.. I get twice the mileage, so no complaints from me..

eGo

DoPeY5007 · Post by **DoPeY5007** » Sun May 25, 2008 12:24 am

We went from a V6 2005 Dodge Stratus to a 4-Cil Civic Hybrid, 17 mpg to 42 mpg.

So yeah, no complaints

eGoCeNTRoNiX · Post by **eGoCeNTRoNiX** » Sun May 25, 2008 12:39 am

DoPeY5007 wrote:We went from a V6 2005 Dodge Stratus to a 4-Cil Civic Hybrid, 17 mpg to 42 mpg.

So yeah, no complaints

I think your stratus was busted or you have a heavy foot lol

My F-150 got almost that kind of mileage.. I went form 16 to 28 lol

eGo