Gas Prices Head Towards $5.00/Gallon

[RJF]

How will you change your driving habits if that happens?

[holemilk00]

I'll ride my bike more as soon as I move to FL.

[articdragon192]

I won't. Work is 30 miles away. If anything, I'd change my money spending habits.

[dudermagee]

I'll be going for a drive to the houses of the CEO's for ExxonMobile and ConocoPhillips.

Don't be surprised when at the end of this fical year they have record profits again.

[ronmcdon]

It won't change my driving habits, b/c gas for me is a company expense & write-off.
If anything it means less traffic on the weekends.
I'm just worried how it effects the economy on a whole & drive up the cost for other items.

Also $5 for gas is one thing, if that's as high as it goes in the short run (say within a year).
How much higher it can & will get is another.
It's entirely possible to get much more expensive at the rate things are currently going.
hard to predict how many more 'revolutions' are going to occur in oil rich countries.

[meteorite_flo]

My brother bought a honda crx HF model awhile back. That thing gets around 50 mpg on the freeway and 49 on the street I believe.

[1337]

honeybadger don't care

[holemilk00]

Originally Posted by dudermagee

I'll be going for a drive to the houses of the CEO's for ExxonMobile and ConocoPhillips.

Don't be surprised when at the end of this fical year they have record profits again.

They will, and people need to realize they are having record profits for ANY business, not just the oil industry, ExxonMobile recorded the highest profits in the history of business in the third quarter of 2010. People hear record profits and they think that is just in their industry, its not its in the world.

[Jared0934]

I'll drive my stoopid 14mpg 2JZ until it dies or I'm broke! $5/G isn't that bad considering other countries pay even more than that.. still sucks though, I remember when gas was under just over a dollar...

[nativG20]

Originally Posted by articdragon192

I won't. Work is 30 miles away. If anything, I'd change my money spending habits.

+1 on that.... moval to ontario 5 days a week... no bueno

plus i hit traffic in the morning and at night

[holemilk00]

Originally Posted by Jared0934

I'll drive my stoopid 14mpg 2JZ until it dies or I'm broke! $5/G isn't that bad considering other countries pay even more than that.. still sucks though, I remember when gas was under just over a dollar...

Other countries that pay more per gallon/liter of gas, also have a higher median income per household. Not to mention they have little to no domestic production of oil. When you look at the economical end of how gas prices are determined, and you take out oil speculators, we should be paying around $2.49

[ronmcdon]

Originally Posted by Jared0934

I'll drive my stoopid 14mpg 2JZ until it dies or I'm broke! $5/G isn't that bad considering other countries pay even more than that.. still sucks though, I remember when gas was under just over a dollar...

Yeah, but chances are 'other countries' especially if it's the eurotrash,
have much better mass transit & shorter driving distances than socal.

The argument that 'such & such' country has higher gas prices is moot unless you take into account other factors.

[enkei2k]

probably won't change much for me. i take public transportation to work Mon-Fri and only take my car out on Saturdays and drive to my girlfriends house and back most of the time (~5 miles total). Once in a while, I want to go somewhere else (Jersey, PA, etc) but I'm more concerned about the tolls at that point. $11 dollars to cross a damn bridge to get out of NYC and $6 to come back in.

[simmode1]

Originally Posted by Jared0934

I remember when gas was under just over a dollar...

Unleaded was .88 cents per gallon when I started driving in '97/98. I could fill up the whole tank for like $10.

I'm already reducing expenses, slashing my personal budget & planning on moving to a cheaper place to live. I guess I'll add moving to a place with good mass transit in the mix.

Austin, here I come!!!

[Okinawandrifter87]

Ill just ride my bicycle to work since I live and work on base and I really don't drive alot or if I do its never far distances at all. But itll be bad for when I move back to cali in a lil less than 2 years from now...

[rice_bowl]

Originally Posted by 1337

honeybadger don't care

haha win!

but seriously, gas is expensive. I'm already driving around less.

[raz0rbladez909]

Contemplating getting rid of the evo honestly, free up cash everywhere else, commuting in it aint cheap

[axiomatik]

Doesn't bother me. Work is ten miles away from home. Wife's work is less than 5 miles from work. I myself only use about 5 gallons a week commuting, so the price increases have had little impact on me.

Get used to higher gas prices, though. There's 7 billion people on this planet. Up until now, maybe 1 billion have had the means to buy their own car. With China and India's economies ramping up, they could add another 1 billion drivers to the world's population. With China's car market selling 15 million cars a year, mainly to people who never had a car before, the numbers of cars on the road is expanding quickly. Oil exploration is not going to be able to keep up with an expansion that fast unless we can figure out a way to reduce our per capita oil consumption.

For our next vehicle, my wife and I will be seriously considering the Chevy Volt to replace my wife's Expedition. She would then drive gas-free 95% of the time.

[ronmcdon]

Originally Posted by raz0rbladez909

Contemplating getting rid of the evo honestly, free up cash everywhere else, commuting in it aint cheap

Yeah commuting in socal in an evo x is not wise.
mine gets me 19 mpg if I'm lucky, plus its uncomfortably loud and sadly needs a 6th gear.
Had it for over 3 years, and I barely have 20k into it.
you cannot have realistically expected it to be a practical car, however.

Any reasonably reliable 240sx (or any other POS car) will work much better.
You may lose less money if you invest in a beater for commutes.
I'd love to pick up another old civic/crx myself.

[raz0rbladez909]

Originally Posted by ronmcdon

Yeah commuting in socal in an evo x is not wise.
mine gets me 19 mpg if I'm lucky, plus its uncomfortably loud and sadly needs a 6th gear.
Had it for over 3 years, and I barely have 20k into it.
you cannot have realistically expected it to be a practical car, however.

Any reasonably reliable 240sx (or any other POS car) will work much better.
You may lose less money if you invest in a beater for commutes.
I'd love to pick up another old civic/crx myself.

This is my exact same thought process, I never really thought the evo would be a great commuter, I just see how much money I could be saving if I got a lower car payment and something better on insurance and gas all around. Oh well I guess my priorities have changed for the better, it's just another car

[WanganRunner]

Derp Derp ride Ruckus and not care Derp

[4DOOR_LIFE]

Play xbox on my days off.lol.

I'm definitely going to limit my driving since I can take the bus or ride my bike to work.

[NissanEnthus]

Originally Posted by dudermagee

I'll be going for a drive to the houses of the CEO's for ExxonMobile and ConocoPhillips.

Don't be surprised when at the end of this fical year they have record profits again.

Isnt that F&^$#*n insane bullshit that the price goes up for any stupid reason they command which raises the barrel price but the Oil Companies record BILLIONS in profit every quarter!!

[ILoveMyRHS13]

I'm just going to keep paying for it. We still have gas MUCH cheaper than a lot of other countries. Premium just hit $4.03 yesterday, so it's only a matter of a month or so before we actually see $5, haha.

[aziankingz]

It all depends on what the speculators speculate lol.. and how far they are willing to push and ride this incline. It definitely is not due to traditional supply and demand.

[CrimsonRockett]

Won't really affect me. I already drive slow enough as it is. When my girlfriend and I go out, we keep it within a reasonable distance (about 30 minutes or so). Used to drive down to San Diego a few times a month, but not worth it anymore if it's costing us $40+ in gas alone.

My daily is a 4-cylinder with a full tune up. Average about 430 miles to a tank.

Been thinking about an older CR-X though. My dad commutes a lot to work. Figure it'd be cheaper for him to drive one of those.

[Daniel.]

Won't affect me either. I'll just start taking the free shuttle to work instead of making the 10mile commute.

Win.

[no slide]

Guess it'll motivate me to get my civic hatch running a lot sooner. Or I'll just ride the street bike. Even tho my sr does about 28mpg average, I drive 45 miles to work one way.

[holemilk00]

Originally Posted by holemilk00

Other countries that pay more per gallon/liter of gas, also have a higher median income per household. Not to mention they have little to no domestic production of oil. When you look at the economical end of how gas prices are determined, and you take out oil speculators, we should be paying around $2.49

Originally Posted by ILoveMyRHS13

I'm just going to keep paying for it. We still have gas MUCH cheaper than a lot of other countries. Premium just hit $4.03 yesterday, so it's only a matter of a month or so before we actually see $5, haha.

Read what I said earlier. Those countries that pay so much more than we do, do so because they have no domestic production. Did you know that the US produces enough oil to be self sustainable? The problem is its too profitable for those companies to sell that oil to countries that other oil producing countries won't do business with than to keep it in the states. Even still, of our oil consumption 51% of it is domestically produced, out of the 49% left, less than 17% of that comes from northern Africa (Libya) and less than 9% comes from the middle east. We import most of our oil from Canada. These numbers were form a HLN story on two nights ago. I DVR'd it to show my dad.

[dsastr_clan]

Gas over here in SLUT isnt as high as in Cali but we are getting there 3.71 per gal, wouldnt surprise me to see it going up to 4 bucks per gallon this year and we have oil refineries here, over here you need to drive to get to places because everything is far

we pretty much only have 2 freeways, i have a single cam and i go thru a full tank of gas in a week, it cost me 50 bucks to fill it up so that along is 200 bucks a month, i drive slow most of the time but i feel that the weld diff dont help MPG for some reason. Im just gonna retard my timing a bit, ill be even slower but im willing to see if that helps my MPG