How much would you pay for gas??

[4dsc]

http://www.energybulletin.net/12040.html

The author ask a simple question of some Irish drivers that I thought I would ask here..

How high would gas or desiel have to be before you stopped driving??

I gave it a long though and I could see myself paying upwards of $10 a gallon before I stopped driving.. I must be nuts!!



However the most telling response was to the question of how high the price of road fuel would have to rise before they would stop using their car to get to work. A staggering (and touchingly defiant) 29% claimed they would never ever give up their car no matter how expensive road fuel became (lucky, old, well heeled and optimistic them!) and 32% just “didn’t know”!

To paraphrase the author of the report “ … the vast majority cannot imagine any price increase that would change their behaviour. i.e. they either don’t know or they simply refuse to change. ” (my emphasis).

[Maine-ah]

1. a couple of weeks ago gas was down to 2.18

this week it's at 2.48. WTF is going on? I don't know how high it would have to go b/f I stopped driving. I'm currently too far away from work to walk or ride a bike.

[Omphaloskepsis]

2. Well, I don't drive.. I'm 28 and have never had a car..

But, I would have a hard time answering this question. If work was 20 miles away I imagine I would pay what ever it cost to get there. Assuming it was reasonable end economically beneficial to pay. Gas would have to be really cheap for me to rationalize paying anything for the five block trip to the store.

[4dsc]

3. Unlike most people

I suspect that more people, including our lovely DU'er crowd, drive rather then walk 5 blocks to do anything.. I have been guilty of this myself but find myself walking more to the local store which is about 5 blocks away..

And yes this is a hard question for someone to answer!

[Deja Q]

4. It's a pity then that all decent-paying jobs are being flushed out

of the US and replaced with part-time retail crap that only certain people qualify for.

In other words, demand is going to drop, one way or the other.

[justabob]

5. well....

3.00+ for a gallon was almost enough to force me to quit my job that requires me to travel about 10 miles in a car that gets pretty good mpg. I don't like driving as it is and I have VERY limited means. I have gone without a car before for about five years, but it required serious planning. I lived across the street from a grocery store, had an ancient washing machine in my apt to do laundry, lived a block from the bus line and within a 3 dollar cab ride from my work for the nights I had to work late. This city is difficult to live in without a car.

[Nikia]

6. In some areas, people have little choice

In some areas, there is no public transportation. In some areas, there is limited shopping and services for even the essentials. In some areas, if you want a job, you are going to have to drive.

[xmas74]

7. I sometimes walk to work right now

but if I find something that pays decent money I will have to commute. I have a grocer w/in two blocks so I walk in nice weather. If I have to stock up I take my daughter's old red wagon w/ me (and get funny looks for it). Everything else right now is planned out. I figure out what I need from what side of town and wait until I have enough stops in that area to make the trip worthwhile.
I can't completely quit driving since there is no public transport in town but I can make it more efficient.

[Gatchaman]

8. I'll pay what it takes to go to work

but I've already cut out at least half of my discretionary driving. More cuts to come, most likely.

[xmas74]

9. I've cut out enough that I no longer take trips to "the city"

(as we call KC in my area). I keep my travels in town and try to walk much of that. I no longer visit my friends because they all live an hour or more away, which means I spend a lot more time on here for interaction of some sort. Most of my purchases are w/in a few blocks of my home-grocery and a Dollar General close by. I drive across town every few weeks to stock up at places like Aldi's and (unfortunately, since it is the only game in town) Walmart. And I suspect it will only get worse.

[SammyWinstonJack]

12. More tax cuts for the Greedy Wealthy!

Anyone think that the rich bastards worry about how much gas costs? Anyone think that they plan their trips for the necessities of life, around the price of gas? Anyone think that they even concern themselves with what A LOT of their fellow Americans are going through due to the ever increasing cost of fuel? LMAO! As if!

[xmas74]

15. I know they don't care

and they never have.

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Hmm... usually costs me about $5 at Taco Bell.

[Deja Q]

11. Or $1.20 if you buy the beans directly from the grocer's...

Nice twist, Rabrrrrrr! :D

[supernova]

13. I'm not sure

I live in the country and I have to drive everywhere. The store, and all the rest are simply too far to walk.

If I wanted to radically alter my lifestyle and do without a car. I'd move to a European city in a heartbeat. I didn't miss having a car then.

[wildhorses]

14. at this rate I figure

I will have to tame these wildhorses and start riding them....cost of hay remains stable at the time of this posting...