Gas prices have biggest 2-week jump this year. Are you driving less?

Work, Food are needed anyway.

Doesn't bother me one bit at all

But I'm sure as hell eating less.

Just to work and back as usual.

Not an issue for me, I enjoy driving rather then flying any day of the week but that is just me : )

I am very thankful for my short work commute and am DEF thinking before I take a long drive.

No matter the price of gas... I have to drive to work!

However, as gas goes up - I find myself taking my motorcycle more often :: which isn't necessarily a bad thing!

energy is the largest factor in inflation and the largest part of the declining dollar (the real dollar that is not the BUBBLE based dollar of 1999 and 2007 )

I'm driving so much less now, I probably fill my gas tank once a month.

My mum definitely is

Already driving as little as possible.

But I formed that habit during the Bush years when it reach 5.25/ gal. How soon we forget immediate history when it suits us. And it always goes up in an election year to get the people stirred up. It's like a pressure valve used against us and it's worked every time.

You mean back when your money was worth a lot more than it is today.

And yet gas is still cheaper today than it was then? Which means that I'm getting it even cheaper if my money value is lower now and gas is cheaper now.

Things haven't much changed since 1919

http://www.consumerenergyrepo...

But the profit margins have gotten bigger. But that is set by the private sector. Money value has been dropping at a steady rate as well. You can go check that for yourself, but I'm sure you know this. In the end, it's a cycle that has been repeated over and over with many countries that use coin. In the end the value will always drop over time because governments make more of it to pay off things. Also, too many countries are dependent on U.S. consumerism. Should we not be able to consume the goods that other countries depend on, their economies will fall as well. As well as the fact that the dollar is used in global exchange. This is one reason why china leant that money. On the flip side, countries that we owe debt to don't want the value of our dollar to drop because then the value of the money leant will no be worth what we pay back. It could be a huge financial advantage for the U.S. to go into a recession because then we can pay the same loan back but at a lower value since the dollar value will drop. Hmmmm food for thought. Remember, it's the banks and big businesses that are pulling all the strings behind the political scenes. We're just too busy fighting over repub and dem crap to see it or call it out for what it is. A pleabian / patrician system. The same system that led to the fall of both Ancient Greece and Rome. The names and the factions may not be the same, but the variables are and history is repeating.

"But the profit margins have gotten bigger. But that is set by the private sector."

How did you figure that? "Profit margin" isn't set it is a derivative computation of the net of sale and product development and delivery. The only thing that are "Set" about them is targets.for attainment.

If you think that is so strange, just talk to any sales guy who has had his goals adjusted from year to year. The managers push gross revenue and margin up, while free market reaction forces acceptance of success or failure of attainment of the targets.

Unfortunately, no. 2 a day football practices for my son. I used to be able to go an entire month & only fill up once. :-(

Work, Church, School, Home.....some things dont change...

Driving less, eating out less, buying less, vacationing less.

So are everyone else. This has to have a deep impact on jobs in the retail & leisure industry.

I fiind that the driving that I do is focused around work, church, school and groceries....not much to cut out of that driving. However, you are right, eating out much less, much more careful about what I buy and vacations have turned into staycations....

I was already driving a minimum amount. Now I choose not to go to the store sometimes even when I need something. In the end I buy less and/or plan my shopping every few weeks instead.

Instead of driving to the corner store I walk:(

I don't really think having walk to a store on the corner warrants a "sad face".

Damned California gas prices. Especially in the OC

JUST TO THE MARKETS AND MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS......LOOKS LIKE THOSE MIGHT END TOO.

Yes. It makes a difference.
I plan my trips to get the most done in 1 trip .
With other prices also increasing food prices etc.it is getting harder to get by.

if dumb people would just say fk it to work school and everything else and boycott gas the prices would drop

But of course gas prices in our area have been any were from 3.80 to 4.00 a gallon all summer.

YES and I'm mad as hell about it. Obama blocks the keystone pipeline, hinders domestic exploration and recovery. It feels like a nightmare where you're trying to run but your feet won't move. Today, where I live in NY, the price just topped $1.80/gal. and I have not heard a word about it in Obama's MSM. What a joke. When the price dropped 25 cents two weeks ago, it was BIG NEWS we heard about continually in Obama's MSM. Anyone who doesn't think we need a change of leadership, beginning with the president, probably doesn't need to depend on a car for transportation. But that's part of the plan, right? Make living outside a large city/ urban area so untenable that people will be forced to live in cities, like sardines, where they are easy to watch and control.

Why did congress put a time limit on it if the wanted it to pass.
President Obama in January rejected the pipeline, saying legislation passed by Congress didn't allow enough time to evaluate the pipeline's environmental impact or whether it is in the national interest. Congress had given the White House 60 days.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/...

Topped $1.80? Do you mean $3.80? You're tellin me about living in the suburbs. I hate it. They act like it's so easy to get jobs, but not when you live miles from work & drive huge cars, trucks & vans. I have an '88 oldsmobile, about 7 miles to the gallon. When I worked 10 minutes away, it took $10 a day to get there... It's really unbelieveable.

I'm driving now more than ever. It takes a lot of driving to live in Wyoming. I do miss the $1.80 per gallon I paid before Obama took office.

:( No trips to the beach for me for a while...

Fill the tank up and parked the car!

and you better buy a gas cap lock :(

We live where there are crazy people with loads of guns, lots of them and I have a huge dog and there is also something down in my woods that has been dragging whomever walks down our drive which is off the driven and beaten path and all they find is scattered bones if that, so I do not even lock my car and yes, I leave the keys in them and where ever I drive I leave my keys in my car, my wife does not do this, but I have and had a bad habit of locking my keys in the car and still do every time I park, I have a combo on the drive door and if it fails, I will be walking! PS: My dog does not bite, he just gently pulls whomever off into the woods and buries them for the other creature, they work as a team... Great Team Work too! (This was a False Flag Post!)