Interesting take, considering that overall, consumption is up over the
last couple of years. Most people are driving more, not less.
-Adam
graywolf wrote:
Unfortunately in 99% of the US today an automobile is a necessity not a
luxury. That said, do not believe that price does not affect gas usage.
Many people I know have reduced their non-mandatory travel quite a lot.
However that was last year and much of non-necessary mileage is already
gone from the budget. One does have to go to work or school or whatever,
no matter what the price of gasoline is. Since I moved up here into the
mountains I have had to first reduce my pleasure travel to nil, then do
the same with visiting out of town friends. I still drive into town, 5
miles, to the post office Monday to Saturday, mostly just to get out of
the apartment and socialize a bit. If gas keeps going up I will probably
be stuck only driving to and from appointments. As it is I am now only
burning one tank of gas a month but that is nearly 10% of my income.
Even my more affluent friends have cut their annual mileage in half over
the past couple of years ago. Remember half of the families in the US
make under $30K a year, these kinds of gas prices hurt them badly. Not
to mention that the price of food goes up proportionally with the price
of gas.
graywolf
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P. J. Alling wrote:
I've seen predictions of $5-6 US per gallon being being where price
starts making a differenced to gas sales, looks like that might be right.
Lucas Rijnders wrote:
Op Fri, 28 Apr 2006 05:07:55 +0200 schreef P. J. Alling
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
About $2.99 for regular.
Quickly approaching €1,50/l (which is about $7,- per gallon). Glad I
ride a bicycle to work :o)
I haven't seen any fewer cars on the road...
No, but people do adapt their style of driving to save fuel. Last
year, when the gas prices went over €1,40/l Shell reported 5 to 10%
decrease in sales in the Netherlands. They were very surprised, as
gas is said to be very price-insensitive.
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Can it be we'll someday look back wistfully on these prices when we
remember the good old days? What are the prices in your area?
http://home.earthlink.net/~shel-pix/gasprices.html
