|
|
|
|
purple hayes
Frightened Inmate #2
|
|
|
Joined: 14 May 2002
Posts: 14462
Location: ON YOUR LEFT!
|
| Back to top
|
|
 Posted: 08/08/03 - 17:18 Post subject: How expensive would gas have to get before you quit driving?
Since gas prices have crept back up again, I thought this might be timely.
Is $2.00/gal too much?
How about $5.00/gal?
Everybody's got a breaking point.
|
|
|
|
|
BamBam
Member
|
|
|
Joined: 05 Sep 2002
Posts: 2974
|
| Back to top
|
|
Posted: 08/08/03 - 17:22 Post subject:
what if you were a truck driver?
|
|
|
|
|
purple hayes
Frightened Inmate #2
|
|
|
Joined: 14 May 2002
Posts: 14462
Location: ON YOUR LEFT!
|
| Back to top
|
|
Posted: 08/08/03 - 17:24 Post subject:
| BamBam wrote: | | what if you were a truck driver? |
Leave the question askin' to me son. 
|
|
|
|
|
Sandy Cheeks
Member
|
|
|
Joined: 14 May 2002
Posts: 4605
Location: in the city that never sleeps
|
| Back to top
|
|
Posted: 08/08/03 - 17:28 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | BamBam wrote: | | what if you were a truck driver? |
Leave the question askin' to me son. |
Are you some kind of Socratic-method bigot?
I would quit driving right now if I could. I'd love to walk to work or take public transportation.
|
|
|
|
|
omega lambda
Member
|
|
|
Joined: 14 May 2002
Posts: 4691
|
| Back to top
|
|
Posted: 08/08/03 - 17:52 Post subject:
A lot. Probably more than 5$/gal. At $5/gal, it would cost me $80/week for gas just to go to and from work. Public transportation would cost about that much and it would add 2 1/2 hours of commute time. If I rode my bike to work, it would add 1 hour each way. I consider my time to be worth a lot, at least as much as I earn per hour, so it would cost me more in time than in gas at the end of the week.
|
|
|
|
|
crazyfrog
Kermitologist
|
|
|
Joined: 31 May 2003
Posts: 7610
Location: atlanta
|
| Back to top
|
|
Posted: 08/08/03 - 19:25 Post subject:
depends on how far i had to commute and if MARTA was involved. probably more than 5 buck a gal...
|
|
|
|
|
AlaninTX
Member
|
|
|
Joined: 14 May 2002
Posts: 6582
Location: Austin, Texas
|
| Back to top
|
|
Posted: 08/08/03 - 19:43 Post subject:
At $5 a gallon we will have a hard time affording many more important things than gas.
|
|
|
|
|
airehead
Oompa Loofah
|
|
|
Joined: 12 Nov 2002
Posts: 18788
Location: Between here and eternity...
|
| Back to top
|
|
Posted: 08/08/03 - 19:51 Post subject:
We already paid $2+ a gallon on the trip over here. That hurt!
(But I'd pay anything to make it out of Joisey!!)
Fortunately, most of our driving is for pleasure so we don't do a lot. (BC lives 2 miles from work) I think at $3.00 I'd tone down pleasure driving a little, at $5.00 I'd prolly stop all pleasure driving and go out only when absolutely necessary.
|
|
|
|
