Comments on: How Will $5 Gas Affect Your Summer Plans?

By: Mattheosis

Mattheosis — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:40:36 +0000

Sadly, it has affected our transportation. Company subed free transportation has been brought into the picture, helping costs stay normal. But time is also of value and my wife, and I, now have longer waiting periods for each other from work. Also, those just takeoff and go somewhere trips have minimized to planned trips, as well as consolidating stops into one big trip. Yet, sometimes that may be a positive thing, with less time driving from place to place.

Regards, Matt

By: guitarkeaven

guitarkeaven — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:25:02 +0000

John, today a guy next to me on the bus had a marine buddy coming back from Aftganistan to JFK NYC. I heard him say…I’ll try, but its $180 bucks to fill up my tank. Nice for a marine who just “served a tour” near “Oil-land” to here “coming home” to the USA.

By: John

John — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:51:15 +0000

Good for you! Vacations are important. You need to clear your mind!

By: Erica @ Cook Quick Easy Recipes

Erica @ Cook Quick Easy Recipes — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:53:42 +0000

It’s a shame the prices are as high as they are but it won’t stop my vacation plans.

By: John

John — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:24:46 +0000

Good points Blake.

By: Blake

Blake — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:15:13 +0000

CheddarFix- “But we could stop the world if we stopped using their product. We don’t have to rely on them.”

Really? You don’t have to rely on transportation, consumer products, food at the grocery store, anything with plastic in it……

I would love nothing more than to stick it to them, but it’s going to take massive overhauls. Our entire society has been built on cheap oil, and the oil companies are simply filling that demand. Granted, we could cut back our demand greatly right now simply by making small changes, and it looks like Americans are finally starting to do that at these prices.

By: Genie

Genie — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:25:35 +0000

I agree that it is necessary for the good of our planet to cut back on our gas usage. If we don’t, we will run out of gas entirely in our lifetime anyway. But I also resent the big US oil companies making so much profit off working people. I buy Citgo gas in order to avoid mideast oil, and Exon/Mobile, with the worst environmental record of all the companies. Citgo also tends to be cheaper, although the American middlemen are making a killng. Gas in Venezuela just hit 49 cents per gallon today.

By: cheddarfix

cheddarfix — Fri, 30 May 2008 14:58:03 +0000

Time for some grassroots home made fuel!!!!!!

Time to put all those rich oil corps out of biz. There taking advantage of us thinking we are the ones in the hole with no way out. But we could stop the world if we stopped using their product. We don’t have to rely on them.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 30 May 2008 10:42:01 +0000

I love the ‘Arm and a Leg’ logo - so eloquent!

By: Gupta

Gupta — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:14:48 +0000

Well…how long can you put off a vacation? Has price for anything in this world really rolled back? Last summer we were all pondering this same question when gas was below the $3 mark.

It was not too long ago that a barrel of gas was quoted under $40. At that time $50 was the high mark for the tide…that quickly inched its way up to $100 as the high tide mark - today we are hovering near $130 and $150 is the new high tide mark.

So you got to do what you got to do. Everything costs more now..including food. So what do you do….eat less or put off eating?