What are y'all paying for gas?

[LizStreithorst]

I don't dare let my tank get down to empty like it used to back when it cost $20. to fill up just a couple of years ago. I had over 1/4 tank left before I filled up today at $4.37 a gallon. That came to $35. Thank goodness I have a little bitty Fiat 500 and I had my plugs changed when my milage went down to 35.3 mpg. Since then it has slowly up to where it should be. I'm up to 37.9 mpg and it will be where it should be at 38 plus a bit soon.

Do you stay home more than you used to? I do. I used to think that Ellisville was close at 12 miles from my house. Now I stock up while I'm there and try not to have to go back for a while. I have not gone to Hattiesburg since the prices started getting crazy. It's 20 miles away.

I don't want to hear anyone assigning blame. We all have our own opinions and I don't want to start a fight. I'm just curious if the price of gas has changed their driving habits.

[CliffsDiscus]

I paid $6.79 a gallon a week ago for regular.

Cliff

[RogueDiscus]

$5.59/gal last week. We're on the south end of the I-5 corridor in Oregon and gas gets shipped from Portland. Most expensive in the state I'm told. My pickup gets terrible mileage.

[Willie]

Costco in Minneapolis is only charging $4.89/gal for premium. I drive a V-8 and only have myself to blame.

[Iminit]

NYC it’s costing me a 5” discus shipped to fill up. .

[For100]

NYC it’s costing me a 5” discus shipped to fill up. .

Best quote ever.

[jwcarlson]

About $4.75 here in Iowa. Costing me about $60-65 to fill up my Honda Civic! My bee van cost $85 a couple of weeks ago. I do have a co-worker who is planning on taking his RV out to Yellowstone and back in July. It's a 3000 mile round trip, the RV

Other than driving to work and back every day, I don't drive much. Wife (teacher) and kids are off on summer vacation so they're not driving much. We did scrub the idea of driving into Ikea to get new dining room chairs which would have cost probably $70 or 80 in gas. We can afford it and, to be honest, costs for most anything don't really factor into much decision making on a day-to-day basis for us. However, I cannot imagine having to deal with current costs if you're someone who retired a couple of decades ago. I don't see how any normal-ish person can do much of anything in retirement or do much of anything while they're working for that matter if they're going to save as much as they should. I know it's regional, but even here in Iowa it seems like it takes $100k/year just to live comfortably. It's going to take $5 million to retire if you're going to live for any length of time. Especially considering some of the lagging indicators like property tax and increased costs for all of the other things that we buy/pay for day-to-day... they're still catching up. Hopefully some of this is a bubble that burps within the next six months, but I don't think that's likely.

And that's not to mention electric costs. I'm convinced I could shut off the main breaker to my house for a month and I'd still owe them $200 a month. It's all bananas and depressing if you start thinking about it too much. I genuinely feel for people with single or fixed incomes.

NYC it’s costing me a 5” discus shipped to fill up. .

More aquariums and pump the discus into them instead of into your gas tank?

[bluelagoon]

Here in Nova Scotia, Canada I'm paying $8.20 a gallon.

[jeep]

$4.79 in KC. Get it while it's cheap because this is only the beginning...

[Charlyc11]

$4.99 for regular in MD for now.

[Charlyc11]

I do miss my Prius gave it up for a Tacoma truck with one third of the miles per gallon. Good thing I did not buy the full size truck.

I don't dare let my tank get down to empty like it used to back when it cost $20. to fill up just a couple of years ago. I had over 1/4 tank left before I filled up today at $4.37 a gallon. That came to $35. Thank goodness I have a little bitty Fiat 500 and I had my plugs changed when my milage went down to 35.3 mpg. Since then it has slowly up to where it should be. I'm up to 37.9 mpg and it will be where it should be at 38 plus a bit soon.

Do you stay home more than you used to? I do. I used to think that Ellisville was close at 12 miles from my house. Now I stock up while I'm there and try not to have to go back for a while. I have not gone to Hattiesburg since the prices started getting crazy. It's 20 miles away.

I don't want to hear anyone assigning blame. We all have our own opinions and I don't want to start a fight. I'm just curious if the price of gas has changed their driving habits.

[dagray]

6.20 per gallon for diesel - thank goodness my diesel is for a VW.

I am going to have to commit armed robbery at McDonald's to remove their used french fry oil so I can make my own bio-diesel .... Joking.

[LizStreithorst]

Man, I guess I've got it good. So far it cost me the less at $4.37. But I'm expecting so suffer more as time goes on. I just hope that by the time it starts going down I'm not dead.

[Disgirl]

$4.47-4.69 here in eastern NC, varies a lot between stations. WalMart has best prices here, always. Yes, my driving is cut way back.

[CliffsDiscus]

I usually check with gasbuddy.com to find the cheapest gas in my area, cheaper then Costco sometimes.

Cliff