How is gas prices effecting your life?

Question

Are you willing to pay extra to electric, flex fuel cars?

Answer 1

two ways.  my grocery's are usually around $100 every time I go to get them as opposed to around$70 a year or so ago.

I drive a lot less to keep my gas expense about the same & ride my motor cycle more in bad weather now. this is bad for my health but Im retired & on a fixed income & the taxpayers pay my medical expenses.

I cant afford a new car so Im rebuilding a 1955 truck NO POLLUTION CONTROLS REQUIRED AT ALL so it should get pretty good gas mileage when I get it done.

many people are spending their money renovating pre 1972 cars to take advantage of the lower taxes,cheaper insurance & improved mileage they get instead of buying new ones.check the prices in hemmings motor news.you can get a cool restored 50s or 60s car for a little more than the price of a new econo box.

Americans will find a way around any regulations they consider unreasonable.

Answer 2

Less money for my Children and Family! Makes my husband stressful than ever and put a damp on our days.

Answer 3

We're too poor to buy ANY new car!  lol!  We just bought a 10 year old minivan with our tax check a couple months ago and that's the newest vehicle we've ever owned.  But to save a little gas money, my husband rides a moped the ten miles to work every day in good weather.  It's hilarious to see a 40-year-old man on a little yellow scooter chugging along at 25mph, but he only uses one gallon of gas a week.  :-)

Answer 4

Well I don't have a car, but obviously my parents do.  Gas prices are just horrible.  They don't effect us too much, but who wants to pay that much for gas?  Seriously.

Answer 5

Yes I am disturbed by the fact that the GW scam has caused this outrageous pricing.

Answer 6

Everyone should be considering getting the "World's Cleanest Car".

"BBC News is reporting that a French company has developed a pollution-free car which runs on compressed air. India's Tata Motors has the car under production and it may be on sale in Europe and India by the end of the year.

The air car, also known as the Mini-CAT or City Cat, can be refueled in minutes from an air compressor at specially equipped gas stations and can go 200 km on a 1.5 euro fill-up -- roughly 125 miles for $3. The top speed will be almost 70 mph and the cost of the vehicle as low as $7000.

The car features a fibreglass body and a revolutionary electrical system and is completely computer-controlled. It is powered by the expansion of compressed air, using no combustion at all, and the exhaust is entirely clean and cool enough for use in the internal air conditioning system. "

Answer 7

Soaring price of food 'leads to riots'

By James Kirkup, Political Correspondent

Last Updated: 2:45am BST 07/04/2008

Rising food prices threaten economic stability and could trigger riots, Gordon Brown has been warned.

The World Bank said this week that the price of staple foods has risen by 80 per cent in the past three years. For consumers in wealthy nations such as Britain soaring prices are squeezing household finances and keeping inflation up. But for developing nations they can lead to malnutrition and social disruption.

Food prices are being driven up by shortages of supply - often caused by bad weather - and by rising demand.

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Mr Brown chaired the Progressive Governance Summit in Watford at the weekend and heard a string of warnings about the rising price of food.

António Guterres, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, told the summit the cost of food is leading to riots. He said: "The biggest problem today is rising food prices in democratic countries everywhere. This can trigger social unrest."

The summit drew together some of the world's most important Left-of-centre politicians, including former US president Bill Clinton.

Many at the meeting blamed the price hikes on US and European Union moves to use biofuels such as ethanol to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Ethanol, an alternative to petrol, is made using corn and its increasing use has pushed up maize prices.

The EU wants biofuels to make up more than five per cent of transport fuel used by 2010, and the US may triple the amount of maize it uses for ethanol over the next decade.

But Mr Clinton said: "What's really hurting the food markets is America moving into ethanol. People there are moving into corn and you have pasta riots in Italy related to what some people are doing in farming in America."

Answer 8

Gas prices aren’t affecting my live that much. I’ve drive a small car back and froth to work my truck is only used when needed. So all in all I only spend about $5 to $10 a week more on fuel then I did a year ago. Yes I live close to work I bought my house close to work on purpose. If I could have I would have bought a house only a few blocks away but it wasn’t possible. When I lived in Seattle I had an apartment two blocks from work and walked back and forth, or road bike. My car was used for trip to the store.

And NO I wouldn’t be willing to pay extra for a flex fuel or electric car, flex fuel is the biggest rip-off that ever came down the pike. E85 cost almost as much as gasoline and you use about 1.4 times as much. You also get higher food prices, corn is used to make most of the ethanol in the US, thanks to the corn lobby, so not only do you pay more for food, you also pay more subsidies. A lose, lose for the consumer.

Electric car are going to have to be much cheaper then internal combustion cars in order to succeed. People are not going to pay a premium for a car that can’t be driven for more then a 150 miles or so then spend hours on a home charger, yes I know there are special chargers that can give you a charge in 5 minuets, but how many have you seen? I’ve seen none. But say if it cost only 4k or less, I’d buy one to drive around town and back and forth to work, and use my car for longer trips, but I’m not going to spend 30K on one and I’m willing to be most people won’t either.

Answer 9

No - Why would anyone pay extra if gas prices were high?

It should be when you could save money you would switch.

Answer 10

Not a lot.

I'm really in the market for a big, big SUV. I'm not kidding.

There soon should be a lot of them going on the market at really low prices. If I can have the money saved I won't be paying a bank any interest to buy one and affording the gas should be easy.

Think about it folks! You go out and buy the latest electric or otherwise fuel efficient cars you pay through the nose. To get the newest model you borrow Mega bucks and pay compounded interest back to the bank.

Answer 11

Gas prices are Americans’ No. 1 economic concern, said New York Times reporter David Leonhardt this morning on NPR. Indeed, around our house, they do rank fairly high on our list and have prompted us to make some transport changes.

A few months ago, my husband was driving his car when he hit ice and, unfortunately, a stone column. While the damage wasn’t terrible, the car was undrivable, and we decided not to get it repaired. We didn’t want to risk insurance premiums going up, and with gas prices so high, we decided to see if we could get by with one car. I’m pleased to report that it’s been easier than I expected. It does require better coordination — mapping out the weekend to coincide errands with my husband’s squash games or birthday parties. If my husband has a meeting in the city, it means staying later or leaving work earlier to catch the same train so we can take the one car home from the station.

We’d like to reduce car use even more. When a mom at school floated the idea of a carpool to a ballet class, which a handful of our daughters attend once a week, I jumped at it. and I can’t always participate because of work, and I’m not sure how they feel about my nanny driving, despite her valid and clean license. My solution: I took a personal day one of those days, making use of it to also book a doctor’s appointment. I did the pick-up and got to watch the ballet class, to boot. But that’s not feasible very often.

Readers, have rising gas prices lured you from your car onto busses or trains? Have you tried to get by with driving less or have you rearranged your schedule to participate in a carpool? Or is your car use non-negotiable for managing your juggle?

Answer 12

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