Gas Prices

[hkellick]

So.. a question (and another public entry!)

They're predicting gas prices to go up to $5 again for a while.

How much do you have to pay to fill up your vehicle before the price of gas outweighs the convenience of having your own vehicle? How much until you switch to biking/walking/mass transport?

If gas does go up to $5 or more per gallon, what do you intend to do?

Comments

[angiepenguin.livejournal.com]

Heh. My car broke down shortly before the gas price spike, and it's been running maybe once since then? I've been taking the city bus to school and work and back for 2-3 weeks now.

With the price of gas these days, the cost of possible repairs for my car, and the fact that ASU gives a free bus card to its students, I'm thinking I'll probably keep riding the bus through the end of the semester, if not longer. And if I get a ride to certain bus stops (1.5-3 miles away, depending on which stop), it actually saves me time vs. parking at ASU and walking 3/4 of a mile from the parking lot. And I'm a lot more likely to be on time for class when I take the bus.

If gas goes back down to $2.75 or below (that's about what it was when my car broke down) or if I get to a point where I'm working more hours (and I will be during winter break), I might use my car again.

[angiepenguin.livejournal.com]

... and if it ends up staying around $4-5/gallon, I'll look more seriously at biodiesel. I've been looking at it here and there for the past year or two, but more as a curiousity than as something I might actually do.