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- starcrunchfx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+39I added 4 miles a gallon to my mileage by driving the speed limit on the highway. I was surprised.
- limpits, on 10/12/2007, -5/+35ah but how much will it cost to get your dignity back?
- gharding, on 10/19/2007, -6/+22I haven't changed my driving habits.
2005: Didn't drive
2006: Didn't drive
2007: Didn't drive
Thank you mass transportation. - torched, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19luckily my condo has everything I need within 2 minutes of walking, except for the walmart. I have to walk 3 minutes for that :(
- quomen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Yeah basically don't go over 60, don't accelerate and break like a madman, and you dont need your AC at the highest level with the windows open. I've gotten pretty obsessed over it.. Now when there aren't many people on the road I try make it so that I don't have to stop at red lights at all and I time my acceleration w/ the green lights. k i dont make sense sorry
- maximusGeek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12I would get one... if only LA drivers put down their cell phones, electric shavers, news papers, DVD players, makeup, and vibrators.
- dattaway, on 10/19/2007, -4/+15I've been riding my 150cc scooter to work. It gets 80mpg and can go 65mph.
4x the gas mileage of the car, so I'm effectively paying less than a dollar a gallon... - brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Prices went up to this level in 2005 when Katrina hit and disrupted oil supplies. Now they're just going up this high for no reason.
- jaymzx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Invest in big oil and use the dividends to fill your tank.
- dbalaski, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Who wouldn't change their habits ?
especially since the US National Fuel Price Average from Feb 2 2007 --> May 6th 2007 went up $.87 (apx 39%)
see: http://tinyurl.com/3e3qsz - whitefo0t, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I paid $3.999 a gallon this morning to drive back up to school. $60 won't will a Volvo sedan in southern California.
I'll be taking the train when I can, but Cali and a solid portion of the US need to get their act together on mass transit. Los Angeles and San Diego are years behind the East Coast and decades behind Europe and Japan when it comes to public transportation. - scispaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8The average car in this country is 8 years old, not 30 years old.
- jhnewt, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12While filling my small car the other day I thought for a second I was gonna pay more than $40 to fill up the tank. But then it kicked out at $39.98. phew.
Anyways, I'm not gonna change my driving habits until like $10 a gallon. I only fill up once or twice a month. I live in a city and could take public transportation but it would take me 4 times as long to get to work, and wouldn't actually save me money until gas is retardedly expensive. I would like to bike (in college I biked 4 miles to school and back every day) but there really is no safe route to work where I don't have to fear being hit by a car. In fact, when gas went up after Katrina a family friend started to take a motorcycle to work and got hit by a car. After the medical bills he was far from saving any money.
Long story short, I have no point and just want to make everyone read my stories. :) - jhnewt, on 10/19/2007, -2/+10@grooviekenn
I'm pretty sure he meant defiantly, not definitely. Do you just browse comments looking for misspellings of definitely in order to post that link? - saifatlast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Don't watch videos while driving, *****.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I think a lot of kids don't understand just how easy it is to get hurt on a motorcycle. I'd rather die than survive a motorcycle accident on the highway.. I had a relative who was hit while riding a bike, and died. It doesn't have to be your fault. You can hit a patch of sand, some ***** can cut you off, you could get hit.
- Lari, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7A lot of comments about peak oil and how it will signal the end of suburbia, etc. Some people even seem to be gloating over it... The truth of the matter is that if we hit peak oil - or sustained prices around $4/gallon - oil shale and coal gasification will become economically feasible. I am not saying these are good ideas or the right solution to the future of our energy. As a matter of fact, the processes would surface strip a lot of the middle Rocky Mountain areas and continue to send pollutants into the air. BUT we are sitting on a virtual Saudi Arabian oil field here in the US. So, the peak oil / roving bands of thugs / life as we know it coming to an end argument is pretty much moot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_shale - chocobomog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8So is this positive or negative? Less people on the road can be a good thing. Not mention there are other ways to travel than by cars (especially gas guzzling SUVs that aren't being used to their full potential). Sometimes it takes high prices to force people to re-evaluate their usage of a product/utility. I stopped leaving the AC on after that first $500 electric bill...
- EochaidRiata, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Miami had a population over 1 million before residential air conditioning. They survived.
- SanTe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"I would rather inconvenience millions of motorists than bring ***** to my own yard. May the gas hikes SOAR like eagles, lol!!"
Careful what you wish for. Higher gas prices will affect the price of everything for you, unless you are growing all of your own food and generating your own heating and cooling? - Antialias, on 10/19/2007, -2/+8or your life. I certainly wouldn't ride on any major streets on anything like that.
- Chompy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Good. I hope gas hits $5 a gallon, and if you have any concerns above your own wallet you'll hope for the same thing. What we are doing now is simply not sustainable, and the longer we put the inevitable off, the more painful it's going to be when it finally comes.
- railsroad, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9and a guaranteed hospital visit if you get hit by a car.
We need motorcycle lanes. - RandoTheKing, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Mythbusters already solved the Window vs AC myth. There was absolutely no difference and both vehicles ran out of gas at the same time.
Correction....the truck running the AC actually lasted a little longer. - Suits, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Get a motorcycle, they're fun to ride and get great mileage. The ladies dig them too. ;)
- maximusGeek, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7its not 70s-era cars that are the problem
- therealrico, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8I really have no problem with exxon mobil profiting from our use of gas. We have no one else to blame but ourselves. This was gonna happen sooner or later, and we could prepared for it, but instead we just keep on buying trucks and SUV's, the way I see it we are getting what we deserve.
- greenemeansgo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@doug - we're all in this together - when america is that F'ed, you'll be feeling some effects as well.
- Zoplax, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Why doesn't the U.S. government give taxpayers a break and offer them more incentives to turn in their gas-guzzling 70s era cars in favor of cleaner, newer cars?
Just a rant after being stuck in rush-hour traffic behind somebody driving a late-70s Ford spewing burnt oil. - saifatlast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4>> Try that in L.A. I dare you.
Yeah, in L.A., you wouldn't even hit 50. - PhantomZmoove, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I believe the taxes per (whatever measure unit) is quite a bit higher there than here in the US.
- Storm9, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The Chicago suburbs are great.
I live about 40 miles from downtown Chicago. This is how my commute is:
Drive to Metra suburban train station: 7mins
Metra Express to Downtown(they run every 25mins in rush hour): 33mins
Take CTA bus to office: 5-8mins
Total commute: 48mins 1 way,
96 mins total both ways.
Public transportation is GREAT in bad weather, these trains are not even a minute late in snow storms, driving during a Storm=hell.
I laugh at all the people who drive to downtown and stuck in 2hr traffic jams, while i sip coffee and read the newspaper comfortably. - greenemeansgo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5these prices are the incentive - market forces at work...finally.
- nshahzad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@remmcain
buy american? it should be 'buy quality'.
toyota is moving their factories into the USA, while the "american" companies are moving out.
my corolla was built in canada.
but many of toyota parts, and their SUVs are built in the US. they have 10 plants in the US now and building more.
so if you buy toyota, you're buying "american" more than you are with a ford. irony eh - scispaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Come on folks. This poll is so obviously biased. Readers of a blog on conserving gas are far more likely to change their habits than the general population. Frankly the poll is useless for assessing the American public as a whole.
I thought you folks were smarter than this. - Wacer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6@digitallysick
Unless Ford owns Firestone I don't think was Fords fault. I will not argue about the Explorer though. It seems to have been programmed to make the transmission and drive train break at a scheduled amount of miles. A real disappointment for me. - scispaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Try that in L.A. I dare you.
- lokoluis15, on 10/19/2007, -1/+5No, he changed his habits in defiance of paying the high prices of gas. So, he could say that he defiantly changed his habits...
- starcrunchfx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7You want to give more money to corporation and contribute more taxes dollars, power to you.
- jeffeb3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The windows rolled down can be as bad as AC at highway speeds.
Moving doesn't work for me because my wife works 1.5 hours from my work, we split the difference. - the0ckid82, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4i agree that there are plenty of A hole drivers out there who need to focus on driving and less on everything else .. i ride a mountain road every day to and from work ... luckily Ive grown up on this road and most of the people who drive it are daily drivers and pretty attentive to the road ... guess when your not on a freeway your less likely to "put it on auto pilot" but scooters are dangerous more so than motorcycles ... less powerful not as maneuverable smaller which means less visible. now if everyone rode a motorcycle .. that would just be great !
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4the sky is falling!
- VnutZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3A lot of people cite that basic rule of thumb that driving habits will impact fuel efficiency - and it does. But they rarely back it up with just how much it really affects your miles per gallon. This study [linked below] was performed by interfacing a laptop with a car's engine computer via OBDII to analyze engine performance under different driving conditions to empirically show the degree of fuel savings that can be achieved.
http://www.omninerd.com/2006/07/16/articles/57 - vocalyouth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@entropyfan
I live in the rural northeast most of the time as well (in a small town in the allegheny highlands of west-central PA), and I drive my 4cyl little front wheel drive car through everything, including 4 feet of snow, get a nice set of tires and be careful! I mean unless you REALLY live in the sticks, like, down a dirt road that doesn't get plowed or something, I don't see how anyone NEEDS an SUV. - righteousyellow, on 10/19/2007, -1/+4groove,
we don't have a soft spot for poor spellers, we have a hard spot for those with poor reading comprehension. - EochaidRiata, on 10/19/2007, -1/+4"Canada supplies most of our oil."
The US imported 9.049 million barrels per day in February. 1.84 million barrels per day was from Canada. That is not "most" by any stretch of the imagination.
- aresef, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Yay for getting student prices on mass transit monthly passes!
- jmpeagle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@sante
http://www.slate.com/id/2102031/ - jsully, on 10/19/2007, -1/+4I think that people need to realize that there are bigger, more immediate threats to our quality of life. I've never understood why people who don't drive for a living complain so much about gas prices - there are more pressing issues that impact our us all in a much more meaningful and hurtful way. The rapidly growing cost of healthcare comes to mind, which is significantly outpacing the (comparably) insignificant rise in gas prices. It costs me $40 to fill my car instead of the $25 it cost me a few years ago - so what? My friend just had a $7,000 hospital bill for a four hour hospital stay for throwing out her back. That seems more outrageous to me than paying $3 at the pump.
- the0ckid82, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4i definitely changed my driving habits ... i used to drive a Chevy silver ado with big 5.7 v8 .. then gas started going up so i ditched that and got a Kawasaki ninja clocking in at a good 55 mpg when i ride hard or 78 when I'm going nice and easy ... i went from spending about 80 bucks every 4 days on a tank to spending about 15 at most (and premium at that) for about a week and a half .. plus it gives you an excuse not to drive .. what you need a ride ? sorry i cant i ride a motorcycle.. what you need me to take something some where sorry motorcycle .. since i got my bike about a year and a half ago several of my friends have also traded in their 4 wheels for 2 and couldn't be happier
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