Is gas cutting into your coin buying?

Phoenix just put in light-rail, and aside from the traffic/condtruction hassle, I think it is a good idea as it connects ASU with all the main attractions and the surrounding citys. Phoenix also has one of the best bus services in the nation, you can get anywhere here on the bus.

I ride my bike around here for local trips to the corner store, etc. We also bought a dbl bike rack that fits my trailer hitch, and we load them up and go to the Scottsdale Greenbelt Bikeway for excersise on the weekends.

Our problems is within a cpl weeks, it will be summer in Phoenix again, that means 4 months of 100+ degree farenheit weather, with most of those days over 110. We hit 122 here the first summer I moved here from Detroit. Not too fun for bike riding or sitting at a bus stop in that heat.

 

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It's been cutting into my food supply.

 

my other hobby is doing up cars.

trying to do both gets tight at times so one or the other will suffer

 

Well maybe if you fix that huge scratch on your truck you'll get better mileage.
Getting too much drag from the paint being gone ya know! lol

Luckily when I start work it will be 8 miles, round trip
Which is a little less than half a gallon for me!

but gas has always been a factor for me and coins here in Phoenix, since all the shops are far away from me!
In Flag it was much better. a short 4-5 mile drive got me to the coin shop. but in Phx, its more like 10 miles one way... or more. :vanish:

 

Very intersting reading this thread!
The diversity of response's is somewhat predictable.

With that being said, for those of you not affected by the current rates, what rate will you consider yourself affected?
When do you think technology will catch up to foreign oil? The oil producing Middle East pays a current rate of .27 -.30 cents/gal.....I remember those days here in the USA in the 60's....

RickieB

 

That question should be: Is Gas, Food, airlines tickets, and all other necessities rising in price? Gas is the main product we notice the price rising in, but the price of petrol severely effects foods, for example, because of transportation etc.

Buy Local!!

 

there are some people that have no choice but to drive ...i live in a small town with nothing but small towns around me pittsburgh is the closest city to me that has public transportation ..i also work construction so i have no choice but to drive ...pocket change said that americans are really spoiled over the price of gas to a degree he is right but it is not like we have a choice on what are vehicles are getting for gas mileage...something should have been done along time ago to make the auto industry increase the fuel economy of their vehicles..we can only buy what they offer..again its just a case of the little guy caught in the middle

 

i would also like to know if their are any truckers online here and how it is effecting them?

 

I have gas, musta been something that I ate.
But it won't stop me from buying from certain dealers, as long as I am careful.

 

depending on how much you like the dealer the gas might be an advantage you can use in negotiations lol

 

I disagree with this. they make what we want them to make. And even if they don't we have always had the option of the more fuel efficient foreign vehicles.

 

The price of gas ($3.69 gal. here) hasnt affected my coin buying at all and it hasnt affected any of my other activities either. My coin buying is just as strong as its ever been. As far as pubic transportation is concerned, there is none here in our little town. No buses, no cabs...nothing. As you can see in my avatar, I drive a Chevy Avalanche which gets 11.9 mpg but I only drive it to work which is about 5 miles round trip so a full tank of gas lasts me approx. 2 weeks.

 

yea gas here $3.75 a gal. it isn't bad enough to payfor the gas once but think every thing you buy this price rase has been added to. like a loaf of bread: you have to pay the increase added to , grain fertilizer, fule, equipment, pestisides, fule to plant and harvest, transpertation to the mill, there increases in fule cost and electric, the to thewholesaler then to the market and there dumping of there rases, then our cost to get it and take it home, then the sewage rasees, and the cost of disposal. so how many times do we have the price rase of gas passed on to us ? more than i can count. but the the cost opf living for the pople thet are on disability and social security only increase 2% to 3% a year. i wouldn't mind paying the increase once or twice but where does it end. and yes it has cut into the coins that i can buy.

 

That Same Station Went Up Today To $3.79

 

It hasn't effected my buying. Luckly I live within a mile of work, as does my wife. In fact, everything in town is no farther than two miles from anything. It's nice living in a small town!
Guy~

 

The rising price of gas and everything else, including the coins themselves, has definitely reduced my buying compared to a couple of years ago. I don't see this situation changing.

 

Well with some economic models predicting $200 bbl oil in two years, better find a way to economise, like it or not.

 

see im going to have to disagree with you on this ..they do not make what we want them to make...did anyone hear about the airlines slowing down the airplanes 10 mph its going to make the planes arrive afew minutes late but southwest is going to save 42 million in fuel...northwest will be saving 162 gallons of fuel...has anyone thought of the same question i have...why have they not always flown at the speed which is most economical...which brings me back to the comment they make what we want them to make..if the day ever came that the sales of pickups ever came to a halt..you would see the mpg's go up quick and they would act as if they just discovered how to do it when in all reality i bet the technology has been around for years

 

Oh gosh, on behalf of the world community, I would like to THANK YOU for just driving it to and from work.

Vehicles that get 11 MPG are RUINING the future of our children. I can't even imagine how you think that it is "ok" to do this.

Goodbye Grandkids. Goodbye Great GrandKids because there are people who INSIST on driving vehicles that get less than 20 MPG.

Oh, they gotta be coooooolllll. They gotta be driving the SUV or the edited pickup they will never use.

Meanwhile, it is our children and grandchildren who will pay for our follies.

Sorry - but this is obviously a sour spot for me. I just remember wanting to move someone and one of the guys had one of these big pickups. Well, it became obvious in about 2 minutes that no one was going to put things in the back of the truck because that "might scratch it up".

Enjoy your vehicles.

 

I have reduced my mileage to less than 100 miles per week or less (Dodge Dakota pickup - 18 to 20 mpg). I feel the same about gas as I do about cigarettes (former smoker) - they cost too much so I ain't spending my hard earned money on them (I have to buy some gas but I will no longer buy cigarettes). A one pack a day habit is one decent coin a week and I'd rather have the coin that goes up in value over time, than cancer, which also goes up over time but it goes up in the wrong way (odds of getting it and dying from it).

Ribbit