Whats the highest you have paid for gasoline?

[starshard0]

Amazing that people can afford to drive with gas prices as high as they are. I'm so lucky I don't have a car.

[jdp]

$3.55 yesterday a.m. Glad I stopped then - on the way home it was $3.60.

[starshard0]

Wow, prices are really going crazy. 5 cents more in the afternoon?

[haiki]

Fill up your tank for $7

For seniors and others who may only drive their car a few times per week on short trips, you can fill your gas tank for $7. How you ask? This is easy on the pocket book, and one that I prefer. The next time you fill your tank and you make a short trip, your tank is about perhaps 2 gallons short. On your next outing pull into the gas station and put in about $7 worth, no more. So your tank is not completely full perhaps. Well on your next trip get $7 more, no more. Try it, you'll like it. Isn't it a little bit better than spending $50 or more filling up?

Remember back when we had to get in line to get gasoline, because of a shortage? The administration can't bring that up, because there is no shortage. Otherwise we would be standing in lines again.

Somehow if people can get back into driving just to buy ice cream at their favorite store, or just window shop at the local mall, and you know how that goes, then and only then money will be spent, and the economy will pickup.

This is from a Phillip Hollsworth, who offered this good idea. When pulling in to a service station, just make sure,... "For the rest of this year, DON’T purchase ANY gasoline from the two biggest companies (which now are one), EXXON and MOBIL." When looking to purchase gasoline, there should be no hassle about driving around looking for another gas station, just look across the street, for another oil company.

"If they do not sell any gas, then they will be inclined to reduce their prices. Once they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit."

[yourbeginnings]

Just paid $45 to fill-up my chevy cavalier ($3.59 a gallon). I can't imagine what the big SUV's owners are paying to fill up. Haiki - sounds like a good idea to only do $7 when needed. I will do it at my next trip to the gas station.

[rstlne]

Originally Posted by haiki

Fill up your tank for $7

For seniors and others who may only drive their car a few times per week on short trips, you can fill your gas tank for $7. How you ask? This is easy on the pocket book, and one that I prefer. The next time you fill your tank and you make a short trip, your tank is about perhaps 2 gallons short. On your next outing pull into the gas station and put in about $7 worth, no more.

You'll just end up buying gas more often. If the gas station is busy, you'll spend more time waiting to buy gas $7 at a time. No, it would be more effective to find ways to drive less or carpool.

[rstlne]

Originally Posted by haiki

This is from a Phillip Hollsworth, who offered this good idea. When pulling in to a service station, just make sure,... "For the rest of this year, DON’T purchase ANY gasoline from the two biggest companies (which now are one), EXXON and MOBIL." When looking to purchase gasoline, there should be no hassle about driving around looking for another gas station, just look across the street, for another oil company.

That's unlikely to work. At least in my area, "Exxon" and "Mobil" are just brand names. Those gas stations are operated by independent operators as franchisees. Boycott them and you hurt small businesses. Besides, gasoline is a fungible commodity. If Exxon doesn't sell gas through its franchise gas stations, they'll just sell it to other vendors, possibly at higher prices because those vendors are getting all the business as a result of the boycott.

[hermione]

Originally Posted by rstlne

You'll just end up buying gas more often. If the gas station is busy, you'll spend more time waiting to buy gas $7 at a time. No, it would be more effective to find ways to drive less or carpool.

Also, since prices are pretty sure to keep rising, you'll end up paying more per gallon and getting less for your $7 with each succeeding trip. It would be better to fill it up and just try to make it last as long as possible.

We drove about 1,000 miles and bought gas 3 times in the last year. We filled up the tank each time and up until a couple of weeks ago, we were driving on gas that we had paid a lot less for about 4 months ago. We don't seem to have lost much to evaporation because we still got about the same number of miles out of each tank as we used to when we drove a lot more.

[khorrell]

What is frustrating me most isn't the insanely high prices (though that is frustrating), but rather the way our society is built around driving. I am extremely fortunate that I have a grocery store within walking distance but I have to drive to anything else as all the stores have moved to the outskirts of town. Shopping online is starting to look a lot more attractive, even with the high shipping prices.

Plus, I'm not (yet) at the point where I want to skip a family event just because it will take $60 worth of gas to drive there. I worry that I will have to start making those choices pretty soon.

[haiki]

I know some have said, your buying gas more often. I'm talking about short trips several times a week. Mostly seniors. Is this too much of a waste of time for persons who go out on short trips several times a week?

Gas stations busy? The last time I stood in line was 1973, the gasoline shortage. I have never had to stand in line waiting for a pump since. Pull right up!

And yes, your probably going to spend a few pennies more, because the prices keep climbing upward, rather than buying more gallons at the lower rate. But it's at a point of, it doesn’t matter anymore, it’s what makes you feel better. It makes me feel better knowing I’m filling up just on $7, and not forking over 50$. There are those that can’t afford to spend $50 or more on a fill up. $7 would do them just fine. And if you are still driving around on a fill up bought months ago, well EXXON/MOBIL, SHELL, CITGO, and the rest of them are going to make up for that feel good feeling, on your next fill up. You see, it just does not matter that much anymore what you do, the oil companies win.

We lose while the greed of oil companies executives are raking in billions of dollars. They obviously don't care about the economy, or America's workers, who are losing their jobs by the thousands each week. As long as they make their profits. Washington does not care. They are sending you money to pay for your fuel purchases. Meaning more profit for the oil companies. They don’t want it to end. That's the bottom line. Some say, not purchasing from EXXON/MOBIL will not work. We have to do something. So they will find other ways to sell their gas, to the independents, competitors. What difference does it make? EXXON/MOBIL, and the $7 fill up will do just fine for me. Or do we just do nothing? Apparently so. Because no matter how many suggestions you come up with, somebody will always say it will not work.

My bottom line is, do what makes you feel good, in bad times.
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