Are gas prices changing your life?
Are you driving a smaller car or truck?
Are you braking easier and accelerating more slowly?
Are you carpooling?
Are you cutting back in other areas -- food, travel, clothes -- because it takes $55 to fill up the tank?
If so, we'd like to hear about it. We are working on a story not just about high gas prices -- everyone knows that -- but what people are doing to try to cope.
We hope this consumer-type piece can be really useful to our readers. And we know that many of you are probably adjusting your lives, perhaps in ways that can help others.
Please post a comment here or send me an e-mail. If you want a reporter to get back to you, we'll make that happen.
I got so sick of gas prices at $2.50 per gallon, I purchased a Prius and converted it to be a Plug-in Hybrid that gets over 100mpg. I have driven it here in Houston for a year now and I use Clean Domestic Wind Energy of offset the amount of Dirty Foreign Oil I need to buy. I am taking myself out of Big Oil's "Customer for Life" Program as much as I can. Now I am trying to help others do the same. I’ve started a business, HybridPlugs.com to do these conversions for those who want to produce less air pollution.
So yes you could say gas prices have changed my life.
Posted by
HybridPlugs.comApril 22, 2008 06:05 PM
Being middle aged and a 2 income household didn't make this foolishness any easier. We had to keep the heat on 62 all winter and are totally sick of being cold. My heart goes out to the people who are fixed incomes. As for gas we save out tanks for getting back and forth to work meaning less trips to see the grandchildren who all live within half an hour away,,,way less snowmobiling (who can justify putting 25.00 in that tank) when you are cold at home. You bet it has affected this whole family as we grit out teeth when we hear the investors of the oil industry are rolling in the dough!!
Posted by
Donna ChurchillApril 23, 2008 06:51 AM
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