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We pulled in our employment to our town. We can probably support 6 dollars a gallon before it gets too difficult to make a sufficient wage to pay all the required bills. At this time the cost of gas is meaningless to me. Now if we still had both cars commuting 130 miles daily round trip to work... that would be a different story. Both cars using about 10.4 gallons a gas a day to go to and from work for two people... that is $31.20 per day x 7 = $218 per week gasoline bill (about 850 a month.) Minimum wage wont cut it. Neither will 9.00 an hour. Therefore.. my solution was remove the commute distance and place work much closer to home. At this time we fill all three of our cars approx twice a month now instead of 2-3 times every 7 days. The next option will be to move to a south east city that supports mass transit to and from work. I think that Household Movers probably are gearing up for what is going to be a bonanza in moving once people discover that they cannot afford the 60 mile one way commutes anymore. We did talk about replacing two of our cars with Hybrids. We are currently gaining approx 25-30 miles to gallon with one car capable of 36 mpg. Regular mantiance ensures that these decade old cars (Paid for thank you!) get good mileage. One hybrid model to us offers us near 55 mpg at times and the range for a fillup covers the 130 mile commute 5 days a week. We probably will purchase hybrids in the future to extend our range to cover the work week in one fill up. If gas prices continue to rise, we would rather use the funds to purchase new cars rather than literally burning it up to and from work. As a former trucker, I have seen fuel prices that are nothing but draconian. It is easier to crack and distill desiel than it is to get to Gasoline and lighter compounds higher in the refinery tower. I suppose 7 miles to the gallon at 4.00 a gallon desiel is much more profitable than 30 miles to gallon 3.00 gas. I am old enough to remember .18 gallon gas. We would dock our 34 foot long Chrysler New Yorker of the mid 60's fame (with a 14 foot long hood mind you) at the old mobil pump and trickle 24 gallons into it for less than 5 dollars at the time. Back then Union Jobs paid 30/Hr, homes less than 20K and new cars about 5,000 for a "good one" Those days are gone forever. What really concerns me is we are literally burning out the refineries running 24/7 at a insane pace. We have lost about 5-10% of our production capacity last week for a while due to a variety of causes. We need new refineries, new oil fields and a return to drilling in ANWAR, Colorado Rockies and good old Texas Crude. never mind what it costs to get the stuff out. Deep sea drilling seems to be a good work now that new technologies are being deployed. Dont tell me to use the Strategic Oil Reserve either. We civilians probably can burn up that stuff in about a month nation wide and it wont impact gas prices one bit. That is for the use of the Military. As long as we rely on the American Car (And SUV's etc) and extol the Hummer H2 as the safe way to get to work over all the unwashed masses shoving and agressive driving to and from work... oil is going to be a problem that will worsen over time. I would not be surprised if Airlines will start to cancel flights because there is no gas to fill the tanks. Or making extra stops filling as they fly across the nation. Going to be a wonderful decade and I thought we were having fun during the ARAB Oil Embargo with the old odds and even days.
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