Have you limited your driving due to rising gas prices?

JQ Public · #1 Postby **JQ Public** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 2:08 am

Well have ya?!

sunny shine · #2 Postby **sunny shine** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 2:12 am

I have limited mine. It is really going to hit hard on tourist destinations this summer if something is not done about gas prices soon. Another blow to the economy.

JQ Public · #3 Postby **JQ Public** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 2:16 am

Yeh in some ways its good. I kinda hope this will help out many tourist desitination in our state, just b/c many people will have to travel in state or very close to it due to high gas rates.

#4 Postby **streetsoldier** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 2:54 am

I only use the car rarely, and then for trips to see my doctor; the wife, on the other hand, goes to college 5 days a week, and even she has one fellow who drives here and "pools" with her twice a week to save his gas (he lives 45 miles away, while we are 28 miles from her school). He does pay her a nominal fee for the extra gas...

#5 Postby **wx247** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 7:42 am

It has not limited my use of how much I drive --yet. However, if it continues to rise I could see it becoming a problem during the summer for me. We will see!

Rob-TheStormChaser · #6 Postby **Rob-TheStormChaser** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 11:52 am

Actually the weather has slowed me down with all the cold and snow. I will have a large travel Spring this year it seems, and once you travel so much a few dollars is meaningless when you have so many miles to go.

Amanzi · #7 Postby **Amanzi** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 11:57 am

I have tried to combine my trips and have put off a few long distance trips we had planned. My hubby has decided to sell his van and buy something which is lighter on gas, then we will more than likely resume our travel plans... I have to travel or else I start growing mold

(I have a good giggle every time I say the word gas. Back home it's petrol, gas is something you get from eating too many beans!)

Rob-TheStormChaser · #8 Postby **Rob-TheStormChaser** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 12:04 pm

lol and to think we always called it 'fuel' in the military.....either it was MOGAS or DIESEL....and diesel is $2.18/gal here yikes!

mf_dolphin · #9 Postby **mf_dolphin** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 1:04 pm

I answered No because our driving is mostly necessary. We will still make our out of town trips this summer, it'll just cost us a little more. Life goes on

chadtm80 · #10 Postby **chadtm80** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 1:06 pm

Not realy

firefighter16 · #11 Postby **firefighter16** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 1:07 pm

Nope. Gotta get to work.

Stormsfury · #12 Postby **Stormsfury** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 1:18 pm

I have had to drive more lately with work making me do double 4 hour shifts during the week. So I voted no of this poll.

Guest · #13 Postby **Guest** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 1:44 pm

I am watching where I drive and how often. I know I combine all my errands together now. Can't say I have stopped - took a road trip yesterday to Victoria which is 157 miles one way to pickup hot rod parts for the hubby. If gas gets to $2 a gallon - my perspective will definitely change.

We are cancelling our trip to Colorado in the first of June because of the high prices and etc. Plan to take local trips.

I got laid off last year from a job where I was driving 100 miles each day - now I work only 8 miles from work - so God was looking over me and knew what the future held and saving me tons of money now.

Patricia aka Ticka1

JQ Public · #14 Postby **JQ Public** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 5:48 pm

Sorry about you having to cancel your trip to CO. That is some beautiful country...i wanna go there so bad. My friend, she went to Idaho for spring break...must be enjoying the snow up there!

Rainband · #15 Postby **Rainband** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 5:51 pm

Yea sorry Ticka, I always wanted to go out west. I don't drive alot of long distance trips so this hasn't affected me thus far..

Johnathan

azsnowman · #16 Postby **azsnowman** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 7:14 pm

With our business we travel WELL over 1000 miles a week, we cover almost every square inch of White Mountains and every square inch of the Rodeo Chediski Burn area doing our enviro impact studies and assessments. Personal travel is WAY down.

Dennis