Who Still Pays for Gas?
Anyone?
I quit about a month ago and started riding my bike. I figure I still have to fuel myself, whether I fuel my car or not. Now, I feel great, all the money that I would be spending on gas goes straight to my savings account, and there's one less car on the road creating traffic and exhaust.
Is gas still worth the price to you? If not, how low would it have to go in order for you to start paying again? If so, how much are you willing to pay?
It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
Sadly, all of Ohio seems to have been designed with Gasoline in mind. We can't just stop using cars.Hopefully, non-gas cars become more popular, and thus, become cheaper.
I walk everywhere.
My bike is broken. I guess I should get it fixed.
I'm learning to drive, though. It's fun!
"I work in one of those humble call centres... Apparently, what we're doing at the moment is 'sprinkling our magic along the way'. It's a call centre, not Hogwarts." ~ Caroline Garlick, Ayrshire, BBC News Magazine
Some people can't just get a bike and ride it. I walk most places I need to go, but sometimes I can't avoid driving.
Signature by rubah. I think.
Everywhere that I need/like to go to, such as school, work, the gym, and Starbucks, is at least 2 miles away, so I always drive. Yes, gas is very expensive, it's nearly $4 in these parts of NY. But I still manage to pay for it, with only a tutoring job and a minimum wage job that gives me 4 hours a week.
Sometimes I have to drive also, but it's usually for other people. I run a lot (no really, a lot) or errands for my parents and my grandpa and it usually involves picking other people up or dropping them off, but they've agreed to pay that gas as long as I pay for my personal gas, which I do. But I don't spend that much. I don't think I'll start regularly paying for gas until it goes at least below $3.00/gallon. I've also come to really like riding my bike. It's fun.
It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
Oh no, not another 'Americans whine about their incredibly cheap petrol prices' thread
Yes, I am going to bring this up every time until everyone feels my rage
there was a picture here
Yes, just... ZIP IT, already.
ZIP IT!
how many people drive SUVs and big trucks in the UK? I recall there being very few on the motorways around london, but I don't know about other areas than that (and this was two years ago).
NOT A RHETORICAL QUESTION GOSH just tell me plz
ahem.
I last paid for gas on saturday (3.52) it proceded to go up to 3.66 about four hours later. It was a huge 'wtf?' moment.
I can't really walk anywhere because it takes an hour just to get down into town. A town that has a gas station, a sub shop, y poco mąs. That's about 2.5 miles (mountain miles!)
I can't bike anywhere because I'd wear out my bike's brakes going down the mountain, and then I would be stranded unable to go back up.
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Seriously.Originally Posted by Old Manus
Oh no, not another 'Americans whine about their incredibly cheap petrol prices' thread
Yes, I am going to bring this up every time until everyone feels my rage
I put £10 of petrol in my car today at £1.12 per litre. :grr: It filled just a quarter of a tank. The prices are getting ridiculous, but I pay for it because I drive everywhere. The nearest shop to me is like 2 miles, and my college is about 14 miles away. My car is only little, and it's only a 1.3 engine so it eats petrol slower than others but I still need to fill up with £5-10 every 3-4 days. Arghhh!
Is gas really so cheap in America compared to the rest of the world? I'm paying roughly $4 per gallon. It's costs me $60 to fill up my tank and that lasts me about a week. No matter which way you cut it, that's EXPENSIVE.
It's bike to work week in LA, and I read the sign and just burst out laughing. As if biking to places in LA was a feasible idea. If a subway system can't even function efficiently in LA, what makes them think bikes will? LA is too huge, too sprawling to get to where you need using just a bike. Plus, it was 90+ degrees in LA today. By friday it's supposed to be up to 100 degrees. Anyone who tries to bike any considerable distance in that condition is just asking for trouble.
I'm gonna keep paying the gas prices, as high as they are, because I have to. I have to drive. There's just no going around it.
1.10p/L is about $8/gal, miriel (according to my rough google estimations)
Thank god I live in a sink town in South Wales where it's just over a quidI put £10 of petrol in my car today at £1.12 per litre. :grr: It filled just a quarter of a tank. The prices are getting ridiculous, but I pay for it because I drive everywhere. The nearest shop to me is like 2 miles, and my college is about 14 miles away. My car is only little, and it's only a 1.3 engine so it eats petrol slower than others but I still need to fill up with £5-10 every 3-4 days. Arghhh!
there was a picture here
I take the train to work and walk to the train and then to the office as well...outside of that most things require me to drive to. Joy lives about 160ish miles away right now. My town is almost 100% residential(very few local shops...not even chain stuff!). The closest grocery store is about 2 miles away. If I want to do any sort of shopping then I am looking at about 5 miles. If I want good shopping I am going about 17 miles.
Living in the suburbs is awesome =D
It was like £1.05 a week ago, but they've just put the prices up again by 7p.Thank god I live in a sink town in South Wales where it's just over a quidI put £10 of petrol in my car today at £1.12 per litre. :grr: It filled just a quarter of a tank. The prices are getting ridiculous, but I pay for it because I drive everywhere. The nearest shop to me is like 2 miles, and my college is about 14 miles away. My car is only little, and it's only a 1.3 engine so it eats petrol slower than others but I still need to fill up with £5-10 every 3-4 days. Arghhh!
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