What are your plans to save gas?

[ICEMAN]

Voting Republican in November

No kidding.

[Bridger]

ride my horse to the store in town.take a pack horse also.it is 8 miles to town.if i get in front of the a#$ holes on their bikes all the more better.

[JackOfAllTrades]

I will do nothing more than I do now. I drive smart and don't make unnecessary trips. I try to combine route/destination all the time. I do ride my dual purpose Yamaha to work when the weather gets nice. 65mpg!

-Steve

[Bean Counter]

Drive a big, heavy, safe gas guzzler that runs on the tears of baby seals.  to keep my family safe. If you think  driving a Chevy Volt.to.save .few mpg is.worth it, go read a news story about the medical bills of a family plowed by some drunk illegal alien with no auto insurance. Al Gore can take his.hoax and stuff it up the tail pipe of HIS gas guzzling SUV.

[sled]

  I'm. Going to ride the klr alot more.

[Special T]

I hunt closer to home. Usually combine my coyote/bird hunting trips to E wa with my work trips so i don't pay for much fuel. I got a Subaru brat just for commuting to work 30mpg.  I love those $35 fill ups, compared to when i fill up the 1 ton dodge for $125 for the big D.

[Bob33]

"Staycation" - a new word thanks to high prices.

[CplRaines]

  I'm. Going to ride the klr alot more.

 

[gotshot]

Voting Republican in November

Yea never seen this before.

[h2ofowlr]

I am going to sell my motor home.  Just not feeling like investing all the money into fuel.  Probably replace it with a camper trailer.  Then buy a prius to pull it.   

[fish vacuum]

Voting Republican in November

Yeah, because gas stayed so cheap under Bush. Free markets and deregulation have worked wonders in the energy markets before.

I won't change a thing. For the last few years I've been driving my car instead of my truck as much as possible. The car gets almost 40mpg so I don't even look at the price of gas when I fill up.

[Miles]

Since my truck has been parked 3,000 miles away for the last 4 years, I've been driving a toyota corolla.  I spend roughly $35 a month on gas (1 fill-up) for all my driving.  Now that we are going  back to the states, I'm thinking about parking the truck and purchasing another toyota corolla.   I'll still have the truck in the garage for towing/hunting/camping etc..., but I'll be driving a car around and saving $400 a month.    For those of you who are saying "I'm not changing a thing", I hope you've got some deep pockets because high gas prices are here to stay.   You can vote democrat or republican...hell you could vote your best friend in to office, gas prices will continue to do what they have been doing.    It's funny, demand was reduced in the US so they reduce output and keep the price up.  Now they say demand in the US is so much lower than pre 2008 levels, but the reason gas prices remain high is because the demand in China.  BS!  I'm not sure what excuse they'll come up with next, but I'm not going to be driving around something that gets 14mpg while waiting to find out. 

[RadSav]

Domestic production, free markets and deregulation have worked in the natural gas market pretty darned good.  And, as I remember it, Bush lifted the moratorium on off shore drilling in the gulf and fuel prices went down.  Even with two wars going on.  What has this socialist, black theology, far left liberal we have in office done?

Why is it so many Democrates think sending our petroleum dollars to countries that hate us is more eco-friendly than keeping it here in North America?  Canada and the US are two of, if not the most, eco-concious countries in the world.  We can definitely do it better and safer given the chance.  And, if drilling domestically, we can add additional excise taxes that will support alternative fuel research while still controlling the cost of personal civilian fuels until those alternatives are viable.

It would also create damn good jobs here at home.  Not the seasonal tax dollar supported census, community organizing jobs we've seen from this administration so far.  We are talking high wage Union, right to work nonunion jobs alike. 

We would need more domestically produced trucks to support these workers.  Demand for domestic steel and aluminum would rise.  And endless amounts of goods and services to support these projects and workers would arise.

We could also attract Bayer, DuPont, Ticona and a slough of other producers of plastic resin that have been forced to operate over seas here to the US.  Civilian heating costs would drop and the expansion of those jobs domestically would open up.  The cost of commercial use of petroleum (the largest sector of petroleum usage in the USA) would come down allowing corporations greater cash flow stability and long term forecasting that would open up even more opportunities for good high wage jobs for both right to work supporters and union supporters.

Sorry, but you are living in a clouded bubble if you think that limiting free markets and expanding regulations on domestic oil production is the answer.  Yes, I will be voting Republican in November.  Because the alternative is guaranteed to fail the American worker and our way of life.  At least with Santorum, Romney or Gingrich there is some glimmer of hope.  Even more so if we can give them back a productive senate to work with.

[Miles]

Republican or Democrat is like saying "dung" or "poop".  It's just two different ways of saying the same word: "Politician".  Asking or expecting  a politician to get something done in todays politcal environment is like believing in the tooth fairy.

[MikeWalking]

Stop living 

I'm already thinking about that every time I get the mail. The Dr. bills are kicking my ass.  It's getting to expensive to keep myself alive but there might just be a great piece of fun/tail just around the corner

Seriously  one of my priorities for a long time has been a short commute. I pursued the work assignment I have now because I knew it was moving to Everett, where I wanted to move to.   My work vehicle is now stationed 8 minutes from home. Or.... I found a house 8 minutes from where a customer lets us park our car...either way short commute.   Bought a motorcycle too 65mpg