Are your driving plans changing due to fuel costs?

[SammyChevelleTypeS3]

Not one bit. Yet, I been trying to remember if the last time gas prices went up very high (on purpose) if the media covered that story as much as they seem to care about it this time? I will guess that they did not.
As someone mentioned earlier, we should all be used to this by now with the way things across the globe affects the prices.... Not fun for any of us, this time or the last times....

 

[Snagglefoot]

The local campground host mentioned the big rigs are not showing up this year.

 

[AuthorEditor]

Lots of boats still out of the water at the boatyards and almost nobody on the water a few weeks ago. Of course it had been a cold and wet spring too, and many will still do some summer cruising. Marine gas is even more expensive than land gas.

 

[k1xv]

So long as fuel is actually available without waiting in gas lines, the price of fuel is a minor part of the total cost of a vacation.

Assume your vehicle gets 20 mpg. If prices are up by $2 a gallon, that is 10 cents a mile. On a 2000 mile trip, that is $200. The total cost of the vacation, if you add in hotels, meals and non fuel related car expenses, dwarfs that $200

 

[stenerson]

The spring/summer driving season is around the corner.
Gas prices are going up steadily, and show no signs of retreating anytime soon.
Are your summer vacation/cruising/driving plans changing?

No change. I remember back in 2007 when I bought my first Ram/hemi and gas got up to 5 bucks a gallon for a spell. So I just put things in perspective.

 

[wavinwayne]

I don't drive anywhere except to/from work, so no my driving habits haven't changed.

 

[bdc101]

No change. I remember back in 2007 when I bought my first Ram/hemi and gas got up to 5 bucks a gallon for a spell. So I just put things in perspective.

Gas in the summers of 07 and 08 was actually more expensive (adjusted for inflation) than when it got up to $6/gal in 2022! Kind of crazy to think about.

 

[rszappa1]

Not really...Just filled up here in Louisville and it is down to 3.33 at a Thortons station that I use....

 

[Rmay635703]

Ask again in the few weeks.

People laugh but within a week of $3.79/gal gas the price skyrocketed again.

I’ve changed from driving the truck on some road trips to downsizing to fit the cobalt and now the 2000 insight (65-85mpg)

Only way to do better than the Insight is an EV (or an EV modified insight)

So I do some of the same road trips but in a much more efficient car.

My truck only moves for something requiring a trailer or towing.

Gas in the summers of 07 and 08 was actually more expensive (adjusted for inflation) than when it got up to $6/gal in 2022! Kind of crazy to think about.

That’s when I bought a 5 year old Dodge Ram 1500 v8 club cab for $5000. At that time I still did craft shows and the elderly 82 Suburban was rusting out and needed replacement, I didn’t want a truck but suburbans were stupid overpriced and seemed to also have much less utility than the older ones for loading/unloading and space. (No bench was a deal killer)

 

[bdc101]

So I do some of the same road trips but in a much more efficient car.

My truck only moves for something requiring a trailer or towing.

I live in a particular area where this seems to be a pride thing for dudes with their trucks. "I'm such a man, see how I flush so much money down the drain by driving my huge truck or lifted jeep as much as possible and talking about it all the time when gas prices are sky high"

Personally, I like money and I like it even more when we are being gouged. If I had a super duty that would get 13mpg I would do my best not to drive it unless I needed to tow or haul something really big, like you said. I also don't leave all my windows open when I turn my air conditioning on or do other dumb stuff.

 

[Rmay635703]

I live in a particular area where this seems to be a pride thing for dudes with their trucks. "I'm such a man, see how I flush so much money down the drain by driving my huge truck or lifted jeep as much as possible and talking about it all the time when gas prices are sky high"

Personally, I like money and I like it even more when we are being gouged. If I had a super duty that would get 13mpg I would do my best not to drive it unless I needed to tow or haul something really big, like you said. I also don't leave all my windows open when I turn my air conditioning on or do other dumb stuff.

It’s sometimes less convenient to use one of the cars (smaller grill, smaller cooler, etc) but I rarely camp and usually motel camp because I don’t have time anyway.

It’s sort of sad to think that camping and motel camping are about the same price but it is what it is.

 

[IndyIan]

Gas in the summers of 07 and 08 was actually more expensive (adjusted for inflation) than when it got up to $6/gal in 2022! Kind of crazy to think about.

I believe the price of everything else was still relatively cheap though back then?
I don't really like high gas prices, but alone it doesn't matter too much as I try to keep our fleet relatively efficient, but with the prices of a lot of other things already having gone way up already, then several $90 fill ups, does add a noticeable bump to the monthly CC statement.
I guess at the end of this latest round of misadventures in the middle east, gas will probably get very cheap for a while... But I am moving more and more to the EV/PHEV camp in future purchases, to distance myself from the fossil fuel industry.

 

[danstraylee]

$7.08 ULSD today in southern CA. I'm pretty darn happy with the prices.

 

[GON]

Paid $3.47 a gallon this afternoon in our town. Price of gas seems to have dropped consistently every day since last week.

 

[AuthorEditor]

$4.45 a gallon for 87 just a couple of hours ago. Upstate NY.

 

[ATex7239]

I filled up the Malibu with Ractrac 87 and son filled up his CR-V with Tom Thumb 87 (grocery store gas) for under $40 each this week.

Yawn. As I’ve said before when you prioritize fuel efficiency in vehicles, big swings in gas prices are a big nothing burger.

 

[danstraylee]

Choice of $5.35 per gallon for "up to B20" rancid french fry oil or $6.20 per Gallon ULSD here in Clark County NV. I opted for the $6.20 per gallon ULSD at good old reliable Chevron.

I'm so very grateful and fortunate I don't have to price shop for fuel. It's all about the quality.

 

[4wd]

Name brands are moving below $3 in Houston now …
No names even cheaper …

 

[Arc]

My driving hasn't changed but everything else has. I'm more hesitant to leave the ac on in the house and we eat a lot less. I've even seen less Amazon deliveries in the neighborhood.

 

[AuthorEditor]

Just filled up at $4.39 southern Adirondacks.