Can You Give Up Gas Or Start Saving?

[Janet]

I'm with you about staying home even more than I did. I try to make the one trip and there are times I have to run back to town. Sometimes I wish we lived just a tad bit closer to town, but still in the country.

[Marilyn]

Thankfully I drive a company truck so my gas is provided, and I can use it for reasonable personal use. I try not to abuse it. My husband however has changed from driving his big diesel F350 to driving my old 1500 Chevy truck. It gets much better gas mileage. Our poor children are being much more careful with trips out of town. We are buying more online now too rather than driving to another city for items. I really don't understand what drives the price of gasoline. We don't have a shortage at all. Please, I'm not trying to turn this political. I really don't understand and don't see that who's in charge makes much difference in gasoline anyway.

[2tiredmom]

I live 6 miles from work but it takes me 15 minutes to get there. So i take my lunch and stay at work. Then i only go to the store once a week if that much depending on if i need anything i had forgotten.
Also Hubby will not be coming home on the weekends.

[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.