Baby you can drive my car...but only if you fill the tank.

[reprobayt]

Interesting conversation around here.  One I think a lot of people are having:

How much did it cost to fill your car with gas - and how are the higher gas prices affecting your life?

I definitely know that I'm driving less to make the gas last longer.

Comments

[onceupon.livejournal.com]

If I'm on dead empty, then it costs $30.

This kills me.

I used to be a big believer in the long, wandering drive. Sometimes I like to just get on a long, straight road and burn up a few miles. Clear my head. Do some thinking.

That's not so much happening very often anymore.

[zorathenne.livejournal.com]

Aye, I so miss the times I could just grab my keys, pick a destination, and go when I just had to get away for a moment and think, or just.. get away.


*sigh* It's hard to 'get away' when you can barely afford these days to just 'get' *grumble*.

[terminusvox.livejournal.com]

With me out of work and my Wife home for maternity leave we've just parked one car (didn't have AC anyway and here in Atlanta that sucks.) It's going to be tough when I finally get a job to pay for the gas to get there until the first paycheck.

[deusinnomen.livejournal.com]

It's not killing me yet, but it's definitely burning away at my buffer. I'm up to $30 to $33 for 12 to 13 gallons of gas, and that's if I can get it at the lower rate of $2.67/gal. Some areas up here have it as high as $2.90 and up.

If I didn't live 32-ish miles away from work, this wouldn't be as big of a deal, but it's 2 to 2.5 galons of gas a day to get to and from work. It adds up fast.

[canuckgirl.livejournal.com]

It cost me $22 to fill my car last weekend (had never been more than $20 before).

Not affecting me yet.

I am still considering buying a Prius next year though. :)

[vernard.livejournal.com]

I have an 11 gallon tank so its costing a bit under $30 to fill it.

Not affecting me at all. I'm one of the few folks that wishes that the price of gass would go up. I think that until we get hit where it hurts, there will be no serious investigation into more environment-safe alternatives. We are just *now* getting hybrids out. *sigh*

[solledrache.livejournal.com]

2.59/gallon here in Albany, NY

[solledrache.livejournal.com]

I have a tiny rice burner... so about 17 bucks.

$2.69/gallon

[ordinary.livejournal.com]

And that's one of the cheaper ones. I'm still kicking myself for not stopping when I saw $2.54 yesterday, but with a truckfire on the freeway, I was already late for work. So at lunch I went out and paid $38.75 for 14.4 gallons. I've had to rearrange my budget in order to pay for gas and right now that means less cash to take to Hawaii.

[copycatjsh.livejournal.com]

I've been pushing off long trips out of the office already, which means less mileage on gas but less mileage given to me. At $.26 a mile, it still pays for gas, but I don't have the cash flow to support it between the time I fill up and the time I get that money. Short 5 miles trips? no problem. M and I are considering the carpool thing, for that'd really help, but leave her here at the office in the afternoons. We'll manage.

[crystalrowan.livejournal.com]

I drive A LOT (I live about 35 miles from work) and I can't avoid it and refuse to avoid it or stress out about it. But then again, I have a fairly fuel efficient car (it's small and it's a manual - gets 27-32 mpg).

That said, with a 12 gallon tank, it took me $28.80 to fill it up today (I wasn't on "E" but I was definitely getting close).

*sigh* I remember when it cost me $10 to fill my 12 gallon tank.

[starbrow.livejournal.com]

Here in the UK, it costs approximately £4 ($7.25) a gallon.

[10dimensions.livejournal.com]

owwwwww.

[sibylla.livejournal.com]

It was made clear to me the other night just how much havelyard spends in gas alone to come visit me. I blanched and now feel horribly guilty. That wasn't the point, though. I think the point was that extended visits on my part to Maryland mitigate the high cost of gasoline.

[kaliwohi.livejournal.com]

It used to cost me about $12 to $15 to fill up my gas tank. Now it can cost as much as $30. It's affecting my life in the sense that it's not as worth it to drive all around town for massage appointments anymore.

Filling up the car two to three times a week just ain't fun, even when gas was cheap. So I've been more reluctant to take appointments, and it's become one more factor on the side of getting a regular job rather than trying to run two businesses simultaneously.

I have a combination audition/interview tomorrow. Cross your fingers for me. :-)

[damn6inchheels.livejournal.com]

It costs us between 40-50 dollars to fill up the tank. J drives about 110 miles a day four days a week, 70 two days, so we spend between 350 and 450 a months on gas. Good lord.

[trillian42.livejournal.com]

$2.65 a gallon. Today was $42.00 for a full tank.

[paradoxicalme.livejournal.com]

The last time I filled up, it cost $18. I've never paid that much before; usually it's about 7 gallons at empty.

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

As a Brit I shouldn't answer stuff like this, because everyone knows our petrol prices are silly, but it cost £25 for just under half a tank today at the supermarket where its about the cheapest. Thats 45 bucks, so would be 90 bucks for a full tank... *sigh*

[zorathenne.livejournal.com]

The cougar used to cost about $20~25 to fill.. and the Jimmy used to cost $30ish (both use premium only). I used to call the cougar my cheap date when I took her driving because it only cost bout that much to fill her up..

Now.. good god. They are now respectively $35 and over $40 to fill up, so I obviously drive the cougar much more often even through the AC is busted in it. Damn happy that I'm now working at the Gwinnett store instead of the Decatur store for a time. Only have to drive like 5 miles roundtrip instead of over 30. Best thing about it is that the Decatur store is my "Home Store", so I get paid mileage from that store to the Gwinnett store roundtrip. I look at it as getting reimbursed for the miles I've had to put in driving roundtrip from my house to Decatur.

As for how it affects my driving.. Well yeah, I try to only drive anywhere other than work if I really have to. I only earn but a speck and so much. vernard I admit, does most (actually all) of the driving if we go anywhere together, but I insist on filling up his tank when I can.

And I show my appreciation in various other ways as well, of course *purr* =).

[10dimensions.livejournal.com]

I {heart} working from home. ;)

Altho, school starts next week, so that'll mean 2 days a week of driving downtown. I {heart} my Acura for still getting the same gas mileage it did when I bought it, even tho that was 9 years ago.

[popchex.livejournal.com]

I'm thankful we don't have a car right now, in some ways, because we're around $5 for a gallon of gas down here...

[jerseygirl1.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty much living at Dan's apartment right now.

Round trip to work from my house: 50 miles.

Round trip from Dan's apartment: 8 miles.

Even my kitty is living at the apartment now.