Can You Give Up Gas Or Start Saving?

[Janet]

If Gary doesn't come home on the weekends, when will you get to see each other? Maybe get a vehcile that uses much less gas? Hopefully you guys can work something out.

Marilyn, I feel the same way. I just don't understand how the gas pricing works, maybe we're not suppose to, but the fluctuation in price all the time is crazy.

[DianaB]

That's too bad, Linda. I'm sure that's disappointing.

Marilyn, I'm sure that it doesn't matter who's in office either. The oil companies are just determined to keep prices high. It will just make people look for other resources to save money. Every one is hurting.

[Lindsey]

Marilyn, I don't understand gas prices either. Here in the Canadian prairies, we are basically living over an ocean of oil. It's everywhere. Every farmer's field has oil rigs on it. From what I understand, we sell it to the US to be refined, and then buy it back for higher prices. But still, the prices fluctuate so much within a few days, it just doesn't make sense. They are using the same tank that they paid one price for, so why the fluctuations?

We can't really change our gas useage. We drive our Camry for our daily commute and it's pretty good on gas. Since we don't live in the city we can't use public transportation because we have to drive there every day to begin with. We don't really do much extra driving besides going to work, because we're boring and we just stay home lol.

[Blueyes]

We live in town, but it's a small town. Any real shopping or good doctors are at least 30 minutes away in any direction. I'll have to say that we pretty much go wherever, but there are lots of days we don't leave the house. We do tend to go in my convertible when it's just the two of us since it gets much better mileage than the Expedition.

[Janet]

Saw a 2005 Cavalier for sale in the paper and it said it got 32 mpg. I would love to get better gas mileage, but just can't afford another car right now. The cable on my garage door broke Friday and now we can't get the door open. Rick's getting a new cable today so hopefully I can get my car back in the garage soon.

[gja1000]

My garage cabale broke this past year. Gary must have been out of town, because I had to call the garage door company out to replace it. I ended up just getting new garage doors!

The price of gas is the main reason I got my Prius, but I still try to combine all my errands so I don't do so much driving.

[Janet]

Garage door is all fixed now so the van is back in the garage. I'd really like to trade it in on something that gets better gas mileage, although it doesn't do horribly. Maybe someday.