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re: At What Gas Price Level Do You Seriously Cut Back?

Posted on 9/15/26 at 8:33 am to
Posted by Harvey Vortac
MidCity
Member since Aug 2024
695 posts
Posted on 9/15/26 at 8:33 am to
My wife and I have switched cars,
Her commute is 8 blocks so she takes my Truck
My commute is 26 miles I’m driving her car.
Posted by Nado Jenkins83
Land of the Free
Member since Nov 2012
67573 posts
Posted on 9/15/26 at 8:44 am to
No do money sent to Ukraine and fraud and everything else. You cant pick and chose what big budget wastes to fund your narrative.
Posted by Wwarmouth
Member since Dec 2025
2187 posts
Posted on 9/15/26 at 9:01 am to
Posted by LB84
Member since May 2016
4605 posts
Posted on 9/15/26 at 9:14 am to
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No do money sent to Ukraine and fraud and everything else. You cant pick and chose what big budget wastes to fund your narrative.


I hate those too. Our government's spending needs butchered down to the bone. We need to see where every dollar goes.
Posted by TrueTiger
Chicken's most valuable
Member since Sep 2004
83985 posts
Posted on 9/15/26 at 9:18 am to
I switched to Keystone light.
Posted by ArHog
Gulf Coast
Member since Jan 2008
40441 posts
Posted on 9/15/26 at 9:20 am to
My 401k is booming and I'm driving to multiple SEC football venues this season. $10/gallon, bring it on.

Posted by TigerAxeOK
In the woods and by the waters.
Member since Dec 2016
38858 posts
Posted on 9/15/26 at 9:31 am to
quote:

At What Gas Price Level Do You Seriously Cut Back?

I'm blessed to work a half mile from my front doorstep and double blessed to be in good shape and health. I can walk to work if necessary, though I hardly use any gas at all getting to work and back or running in to town.

I still hate the gas prices and inflation though. We were promised the opposite of this but, unfortunately, the Establishment Swamp won again and got us into more crap that raises the cost of pretty much everything.

My epiphany has been that it really doesn't matter who is "in charge" when the Uniparty Establishment is so deeply entrenched within every nook and cranny of governmental infrastructure. The only thing that changes is the speed at which we roll uncontrollably down the hill.
Posted by Nado Jenkins83
Land of the Free
Member since Nov 2012
67573 posts
Posted on 9/15/26 at 10:08 am to
Exactly
Posted by hogcard1964
Alabama
Member since Jan 2017
21969 posts
Posted on 9/15/26 at 10:14 am to
I'm in southern Bama. Our prices are always decent.
Posted by Roll Tide Ravens
Birmingham, AL
Member since Nov 2015
52169 posts
Posted on 9/15/26 at 10:16 am to
Haven’t you heard? Gas prices don’t matter. They don’t even need price signs anymore. If gas prices bother you, you’re just poor.
Posted by alphaandomega
Tuscaloosa-Here to Serve
Member since Aug 2012
17416 posts
Posted on 9/15/26 at 10:16 am to
I dont drive around just to drive around. If I need to go somewhere I will go.
Posted by TigerBaitOohHaHa
Member since Jan 2023
2318 posts
Posted on 9/15/26 at 10:17 am to
What an interesting dynamic. The same people who slander the entire oil industry and push "green" energy are complaining about gas prices.

Is it because they suddenly realize the importance of the industry and want more gas for cheaper OR because they are excited about the political implications to the Trump administration?

Posted by aTmTexas Dillo
East Texas Lake
Member since Sep 2018
24798 posts
Posted on 9/15/26 at 10:17 am to
You've gotten plenty of answers. And this has been covered. But get a Tesla or Ford MachE and any other electric vehicles that work. Mama can commute in the Tesla while daddy takes the kids to soccer practice in a lifted F250 diesel.

If prices stay high, people will come around to this.
I've had a Lightning since 2023 (51,000 miles) and my wife took it a few minutes ago to go to a meeting 18 miles away in town. I haven't filled the Acura in a month.
Posted by kingbob
Sorrento, LA
Member since Nov 2010
71383 posts
Posted on 9/15/26 at 10:17 am to
Man, if prices don’t start coming down, paying for my road trip to Knoxville is gonna suuuuuuuuuuuck.
Posted by Roll Tide Ravens
Birmingham, AL
Member since Nov 2015
52169 posts
Posted on 9/15/26 at 10:19 am to
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And like what someone said before me Americans are getting by hit from all sides these days housing, car prices, gas, insurance etc…. It all adds up

And fuel prices impact the prices of everything else. Every product we buy has to be moved using fuel. Walmart, Target, Publix, etc. aren’t just eating that cost. They’re passing it on in the prices they charge for those products.
Posted by aTmTexas Dillo
East Texas Lake
Member since Sep 2018
24798 posts
Posted on 9/15/26 at 10:21 am to
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They’re passing it on in the prices they charge for those products.

Yeah, even a quarter of a cart of groceries at The Walmart costs 100 bucks.
Posted by lsu777
Lake Charles
Member since Jan 2004
39064 posts
Posted on 9/15/26 at 10:23 am to
im not poor so I dont.
Posted by Roll Tide Ravens
Birmingham, AL
Member since Nov 2015
52169 posts
Posted on 9/15/26 at 10:24 am to
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Yeah, even a quarter of a cart of groceries at The Walmart costs 100 bucks.

Occasionally I have to stop by Walmart or Publix on the way home to pick up just a few minor things and it’s amazing how quickly I end up spending $40 or $50 just buying needed items.
Posted by BTROleMisser
Murica'
Member since Nov 2017
17002 posts
Posted on 9/15/26 at 10:25 am to
I don't. I drive 20 miles round trip to work each day and don't drive much on weekends.
Posted by redneck hippie
Oklahoma
Member since Dec 2008
6480 posts
Posted on 9/15/26 at 10:29 am to
Diesel at $6.44 in Guthrie,OK today.
Luckily I have a company truck and card. Wife drives a hybrid accord that gets us around town efficiently
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