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<p>I am buying a bike.</p>
<p>It cost me $55 to fill my car this week. I’m ready to walk.</p>
<p>Mine was $47 yesterday and that was with a $0.90/gal discount through my markets fuel program. It would have been over $60 if I paid full price ($3.65).</p>
<p>I paid $3.89/gal yesterday and couldn’t bring myself to fill up the tank. Stopped at $25 and it didn’t give me even half a tank. Painful!!!</p>
<p>If your Costco has a gas station they are often cheaper. Our Safeway has reg for $3.65.
My husband drives a * stupid* car that only can use premium, which is always about $.15 more a gallon.
( not only does it not take regular gas, I can’t see out the rear windshield, it has automatic seatbelts, it doesn’t have* cupholders!* & the back windows don’t open)
I really don’t like that car.</p>
<p>I have been getting much better at consolidating trips & when possible I take the bus or walk- the grocery store is close, but I can’t carry much at a time
( & no mom- I don’t have one of those little carts- I already got a * keeper* for my reading glasses- but I have * some ego* left. 
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<p>I wish we had money to get an electric car.
[Think of how much gas I could save!](<a href=“http://www.teslamotors.com/”>http://www.teslamotors.com/</a>)</p>
<p>My new employer (only there 4 weeks) has an option to work from home once a week. Thus far I’ve declined because I want to be a good newbie doobie and show up every day. But, staying home would be nearly a 20% reduction in my gas expense. I’m seriously thinking about it.</p>
<p>I can see why being new, you would want to go in every day- but once you are there for a couple months- you probably will feel more comfortable- plus the weather will be nicer.</p>
<p>( although that could be a bad thing- I have to get out of the house to get work done on the computer oftentimes, cause I get too distracted otherwise)</p>
<p>That is very popular in our area- to stay home one day a week. If companies could get everyone to do that- we could have less traffic & they could save on utility costs.
Unfortunately- while H’s work does do that-not in his dept, he only “gets” to stay home one weekend a month.
( hard to cut parts at home- they wouldn’t fit into the garage- maybe if he put the sawhorses in the street?)</p>
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<p>I paid $3.45 yesterday. Normal price was $3.49/gal but if you pay cash it’s $.04 cheaper. I spent $45 and still did not fill it completely; came close but not quite. Sure is messing up our plans of me living at home and saving money for grad school while working.</p>
<p>I saw one company where I went to college at is all but closing their office this spring. They are transitioning 150 of their 175 employees to being “work from home.” I think most of the other 25 are being eliminated through retirement or being cut. This is going to allow them to move into a much smaller building to cut overhead costs. It’s all apart of ObamaCare…</p>
<p>Why is “work from home” in quotes, hops_scout? It is a legitimate place to work in our connected society. I LOVE the fact that my current client has us well enough wired that I can work from home when needed. Some people in our company do it on a regular schedule. In some businesses, it is a darned smart way to cut costs. I think it is one of the best ways for us to cut oil consumption in this country, and wish more companies would allow it/expand it. It would also reduce the wear and tear on our road and bridge infrastructure.</p>
<p>That’s just how it was in the article. I have nothing wrong with it. It said they’d have the occasional meeting, but would mainly be working out of their homes. </p>
<p>According to some of the comments on that website, it appears a few of the employees were cut because they lived in an area that could not get high-speed internet.</p>
<p>I know this isn’t the bragging thread, but I work at home and DH walks to work. We also walk to the library, coffee shop, theatre and restaurants. Most days our car doesn’t leave the driveway. I’m hoping that the rising gas prices might help us sell our in-town home. :)</p>
<p>I filled up every 4-5 days @ $60-65 per fill up. Gas is killing me. My next car will be more fuel efficient. I was actually driving S’s Kia for a few weeks because it only needed 3 gallons of gas to get me to work and back vs the 5 my car needs. Unfortunately S now has a job 5 days a week right after school and needs his car back. I no longer run errands during lunch.</p>
<p>We have a very flexible workplace but I think that having a certain group of people that is almost always in the office makes it easier to have some employees that are able to telecommute. We have people on the team in other countries, other states and some that work one or three days in the office. The new employees usually work a full day in the office as they have to get up to speed.</p>
<p>I am usually in the office every day - there is hallway chit-chat where you get informal information that can be useful for your job - stuff that doesn’t come through emails and meetings.</p>
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<p>Good work designing your lives for efficiency.</p>
<p>We all had fair warning on higher crude/gasoline prices a few years ago.</p>
<p>My commute is eleven minutes which translates to less than a half-a-gallon of gasoline in a vehicle that was efficient when I bought it. My view on cars is that people that I see have moved from SUVs and Minivans to crossover vehicles which do get somewhat better gasoline mileage. It will be interesting to see if higher gasoline prices are sustainable and what the resulting buying and driving behavior will be.</p>
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<p>Last Sunday the cheapest gas I could find in my neighborhood was $3.52. Six days later, the same station has it at $3.79.</p>
<p>S2 arrived home last night for Spring Break. His college is a four hour interstate drive from home. He gassed up the truck before leaving college town. It was $3.50/gal. He said the pump cut him off at $75 worth. His tank wasn’t full.</p>
<p>Most vehicles have a “cruising range” of about 300+ miles. If they get low mileage, they tend to have larger gas tanks so they can still have the appropriate range. I am loving & driving our mini-Volvo S40 more these days as it gets better mileage and fits into those itty bitty spaces compared to larger vehicles that guzzle gas & don’t fit spaces. 
It’s still nice to have the van when we do clinics and when we transport my folks but not for every day. My sedan gets better mileage anyway, I think.</p>
<p>The real cost of the price of gas has yet to surface, and that will be on higher costs of just about everything ,as producers,grocery stores,etc pass along the increased costs of fuel…</p>
<p>The 30 cent a gallon increase for drivers is not good, but it isn’t earth-shattering…for someone who uses 20 gallons a week,it is a minor 6 bucks…or 24 bucks a month…if this causes you a hardship,u need to take a look at your monthly spending habits</p>
<p>That’s very true. I remember the last one of these, toward the end of W’s administration. I live in Northern California, and I remember hearing people say they were cancelling their summer-vacation drive down to Southern California – because it was going to cost an extra $50 in gas.</p>