spindles

In Sydney price has ranged from 1.40-1.60 a litre for a few weeks. We are really seeing the flow on of supermarket prices rising. Couple this with the drought (still) going on in Oz and it is certainly making things tougher.

Still my commute could not be smaller (I love working from home) and we only have a 4 cylinder car now. Really can't get anything too much smaller with a couple of kids to fit on the back.

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Supermarket prices were already high down there. I can't imagine what they would be now.

Cynthetiq

last night I went to New Jersey....

had a nice steak dinner with the wife at Fleming's Steakhouse with a nice pair of $25 gift certificates given by the manager from the Las Vegas restaurant. It was wonderful... took care of 1/3 of the check and tip!

on the way home we stopped to top off the tank which was at 1/2.... $20, not only was it $3.89/gallon but it was Full Serve.... ahhh.. the life!

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TotalMILF

Took this pic today in Ann Arbor, MI. Shortly thereafter I traded my left kidney for a full tank.

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It's still $3.99 here, but I haven't used any gas in the past 5 days.

snowy

*bump*, because it's happening again.

I really need to start working on taking the bus (which is fareless in my city), walking, or riding my bike to work more often. Lately, my husband has been dropping me off on his way out to his folks' place to do landscaping work. The problem with the bus is that while it gets me to work perfectly, it doesn't come for half an hour after I leave work, in which time I can walk home. The problem with that is that after 8 hours of chasing toddlers, I'm pretty bushwhacked. The bike is a little easier, if only the weather would cooperate. I will probably be biking all summer as I'm taking classes and working, which means I've got to be able to get from class to work lickety-split, and around here, the bike is the fastest way.

We're definitely trying to think more about the trips we make and trying to save our gas for the weekends.

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Baraka_Guru

The average gas price in Toronto today is currently sitting at around $1.29/liter ($4.88/gallon). I work at home, but my SO drives about 30 to 45 minutes north of here to get to work. So I suppose it means that one of us is forking more these days towards transportation cost. However, since I no longer pay anything (well, only occasional travel) for transportation, I suppose we're still coming out ahead.

But, still.....

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Leto

yeah, BG, it's $1.29 now, but it was $1.41 just a week ago. It was $0.98 one year ago. Luckily I only drive 10K one way to work, so it isn't too bad. Just bought a new car too: Mazda 3 sport. Seems to be doing well on the consumption.

Snowy, what kind of city has free transit???? I know Pittsburgh did in its downtown, but it was pretty limited, and most folks could walk those distances.

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snowy

It's not free, it's fareless.

Our transit system is paid for by a few different funding sources: there is money from the federal transit authorities (usually used for capital costs, such as buying new buses), the university pays a chunk so that students can ride and so that the transit system will operate a night bus, a local employer pays so that buses serve their campus directly, the school district pays so that the system operates circulator buses between the two high schools, and then there is a fee attached to everyone's water bill in the city (approx. $4/mo) to fund the rest and make the system fareless. Given the high rate of housing being rental housing here (we're a college town, after all), most people don't actually pay that fee directly.

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noodle

It's currently costing me around 10 cents per mile to drive my car.
I'm doing well. I have to drive to Miami this weekend and wa dreading it at the previous $4.22/gallon but now that diesel is settling back down at $4.05-ish, it's made a difference.

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amonkie

I use the public transportation here in Chicago, and it has definitely caused Chicago to really pursue using hybrid buses to help reduce their fuel costs and an aging fleet.

So far there has not been a fare hike in 2 years, but how long that remains is to be seen. Having taken public transit light rail in Seattle and Minneapolis in the last 30 days, our fares are at rates consistent with other states.... for now.

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Baraka_Guru

That's what the SO has. And manual transmission at that.

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dlish

price here is 0.44 USD per litre which is regulated by the government, so we dont have a fluctuation in our gas price like most countries do.

i live 300m from work, so it really doesnt affect me much. on a busy week in the car ill be using half a tank. thats about 8 dollars for a half tank. most times i fill up every 10-14 days.

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jannista

It affects the groceries I buy. The price of food has gone up so much recently. It seems to have more of an effect then gas for the car. Probably becuase I don't commute very far but I still have to buy food.

Lindy

I mostly use the "T" here in Boston. It's about a block from work, and two blocks from home. A monthly pass (called a "Charlie Card") costs $59 covers subway and local busses, but not commuter rail, ferries, etc. I probably use it 60-70 times per month, so averages less than one dollar/ride. So I don't drive much here in the city.

I have an old on its last legs AMC Eagle wagon that I use to schlep my upright bass (it won't fit in the SAAB) on occasion. Plus, it has all wheel drive, and it gets about 15mpg, but I hardly drive it at all, so not much impact there.

The price of gas does impact my trips back to Kansas several times each year, since I hate to fly. My boyfriend, Sig, laughs at me for the lengths to which I'll go to avoid flying. But even if I do fly, Wichita -NOT a cheap airport- is a four hour drive from home, plus the cost of a rental car. Much cheaper airfares to Denver, Kansas City, or OKC but they're more like a five or six hour drive.
By now I have the various different routes driving from Boston down to a science, 26-28 hours actual behind the wheel time if I can avoid rush hours in Cleveland and Chicago, or avoid them altogether. But, I digress...
My SAAB gets about 30-32mpg driving as fast as I think I can get away with. So about 125 gallons round trip plus a couple of hotel nights and I have o couple of strategically placed friends/cousins for an occasional free stay. So about $800 per trip, give or take. Higher gas price is about $100 of that. Flying would save me the cost of a couple nights on the road, which would be mostly offset by the cost of a rental car.

And when I drive instead of fly, I can bring back a cooler full of dry ice and twenty or thirty pounds of good grass fed beef from my dad.

Lindy

Poetry

I, fortunately, have a turbo diesel, which gets me between 36-40 MPG hauling myself around in LA traffic. I put an average of 1900 miles on my car each month. Diesel prices for my area have been ranging from $4.45-4.65 lately, but I only have to put about $55 in my tank each week, so it isn't that bad.

However, for the industry I work in, it's a killer. Some of the vendors we use charge a 30% FSC for deliveries, and that's absolutely nuts.

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Grasshopper Green

This is where I've noticed the recent rise as well. I've been working from home for the past 9 months and drive into the office once a week, so we haven't been hurting as far as our gas bill is concerned. I have noticed that it used to cost $200 to fill up my cart and it now costs $250+.

I am considering taking the train to work instead of driving. It will be more inconvenient and really won't save me any money, but our cars are both older and we'd like to get a couple more years out of them if possible.

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ASU2003

I don't drive very much still. Actually, my office moved closer to where I live so I bike to work everyday.

I still have a 40mpg car on the highway that I use a few times a year.