As for me when I went to buy a new lawn mower I bought one than ran on muscle power instead of gas. I am staying home for my vacation and doing work on the house, I may go to a local lake and do some fishing or swimming.
It seems to me that the people doing the loudest screaming are the ones that are least likely to do anything to use less fuel.
2007-05-25 02:56:03 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I have an SUV which I did not buy until I moved to Vermont and it's necessary here. But I don't let my tank get empty. I use my halfway point as my empty point so gas is cheaper for me to fill up...I make all my trips at one point...no going home and going back out so mostly I'm out for work and that's it.
2007-05-25 03:27:30 · answer #1 · answered by ☮ wickey wow wow ♀♀ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gas Prices are being artificially supported on two level. The first is on the Crude Level... OPEC restricts oils supplies which effect global petroleum commodity prices. That's one. Two, which I feel is kinda sinister, is that OUR companies have been running this new racket or consolidating (merging) and than systematically reducing there own capacity to produce gasoline to artificially drive up prices and profitability by either demolishing complete refineries and letting maintenance go on refineries and pipelines to allow shut down. The strategic plan that is working and profits are at a record level.
The market can fixed this...but the only thing that drive down prices in the market economy is COMPETITION. Congress must side with the CONSUMER and keep these entities from forming monopolistic cartels. But these current events remind my of the middle ages with the Silk Road Trading (EUROPE AND CHINA) where Persia in the middle would restrict the road and to drive up the prices of goods for their own profit. The market would always find another way...and Christopher Columbus discover a new world looking for China and the Persian Empire became a second rate nation. Oil is sewing the seeds of their own demise, they creating a market condition for an alternative fuel and when one is found I hope they are screwed in the process.
2007-05-25 10:15:31 · answer #2 · answered by Laughing Man Copycat 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I ride my bike 2.5 miles to work and 2.5 miles home when weather permits. In 1961 gas was .31 cents a gallon. With pay raises and adjustments to inflation an economic fact is it took more out of your wallet then than it does today. Cars where getting 10 MPH then.
2007-05-27 10:31:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What you are doing is a waste of time. The soaring price of gas is not the result of a shortage. It is the result of OPEC cutting back production to raise the price of crude oil and wall street speculators buying up oil stock thus driving up the price of oil. No amount of "saving" gas is going to lower the price. OPEC has determined the world consumer has been getting oil too cheap for too long. So any personal rationing will be met by further cut-backs in crude oil production by OPEC spurring further stock market speculators to drive the price higher.
2007-05-25 10:04:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I recently bought a bicycle and a bus pass. I drive my car only when I absolutely have to and have inflated my tires. I have cleaned my car and cleaned it out to reduce weight. I removed the passenger seat and the back seat. I have a manual transmission which I shift below 3k rpm. I coast as much as possible. I try to stop as little as possible. I drive 45 on the highway in the right lane with the windows up and no A/C, only vent on. I taped the gaps on the front of my car to increase aerodynamics (doesn't look gaudy). I try to fill up on cool evenings when the fuel is denser.
2007-05-25 10:03:49 · answer #5 · answered by NX2K 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not spending more than I always did on gas, yes that means getting fewer gallons in my tank but I make it last just as long by not making unnecessary trips and combining all my errands into one trip. Joyriding is just out of the question.
2007-05-25 10:14:55 · answer #6 · answered by robotchic 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of things seem don't they.....
I walk to work and to the grocery store and pretty much everywhere and gas near 4 bucks a gallon is a crime.
2007-05-25 10:28:21 · answer #7 · answered by Franklin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
GOOD FOR YOU. I'M DRIVING MY SUV FROM NYC TO VIRGINIA. THEN I'M GOING TO FUEL MY COUSINS BOAT AND GO OUT TO DO SOME FISHING IN THE ATLANTIC. SATURDAY I WILL DRIVE A BIT FURTHER DOWN TO THE DRAG RACES, TO WATCH THEM BURN RUBBER AND FUEL. THEN IT'S A DRIVE TO THE CARNIVAL. SUNDAY WE WILL GO TO OLD DOMINION ANOTHER DRIVE IN MY SUV. ON MONDAY IT'S BBQ AT MY COUSINS AND ANOTHER DRIVE IN MY SUV TO NYC AGAIN. I FIGURE TO FILL MY TANK ABOUT 4 TO 6 TIMES IN THE WEEK END. GOOD LUCK WITH THAT HAND POWERED LAWN MOWER.
2007-05-25 10:13:32 · answer #8 · answered by strike_eagle29 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nope; I'm screaming really loud about it and I use gas almost exclusively to get to and from work. When I'm going elsewhere, I carpool as often as possible.
But I have to fill my gas tank twice a week to get to work, and right now, it costs me about $40. I do not drive an SUV; I drive a small car.
2007-05-25 10:00:49 · answer #9 · answered by Bush Invented the Google 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
I bike and walk, I don't have much grass, I use an electric weed wacker.
I could go away to the shore, but I hate the crowds and traffic.
2007-05-25 10:11:04 · answer #10 · answered by Global warming ain't cool 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋