Has fuel prices made you drive less?

[The70RT]

For me - yes. I have put less than 3,000 miles on my daily driver since early May. I even went on the Kansas MoPar cruise and a 500 mile vacation trip in June out of state. If it wasn't for that I would be at only 2K in the last 4 months. I have been filling up every 3-4 weeks. I have an 01 Ram with a 26 gallon tank. I just won't feed the coffers anymore. I am sure some people have a longer comute to work or live out side the city though. I only live about 3-4 miles from work.

[bull]

Way less. I ride my bike or take the bus to work pretty much every day now.

[1969chargerrtse]

Just a little.  I hear that oil is under 110 a barrel an expected to drop to as low as 80 a barrel.  That'll be nice.

[PocketThunder]

Yes.  I even sold my house in May and moved closer to work!   

[charger_fan_4ever]

unfortuneatley yes.

My daily driver a fair bit less. With diesel here @ $ 5.20 for a us gallon my powerstroke is only used now when its hauling something. So its parked 805 of the time. Since the new "green" push a couple years ago it costs $375 to plate the truck. An extra $150 over regular plate fees cause the engine is larger than a 4.0L.

[Blown70]

Yes, and NO, I have thought of things I need at the store, and not made the trip because I do live out of town a bit so it would cost me $7 in gas to go there and back.

Most certinaly I do plan my tirps to make them more efficient.

BUt again, I have when out for a few rides/cruises just becasue I have wanted to. 

[moparstuart]

I have gone to more shows this summer and further away shows.  Several of them though we have gone to in the shelby charger to save gas !

[41husk]

I think gas prices have dictated staying local rather than driving to buy hardware, groceries, clothing etc.  As far as driving the Chargers, gas prices really make no difference, wife and kids and just being busy in genneral sure has cut down on miles this season

[471_Magnum]

I use to drive my toys to work once or twice a week weather permitting. I figured I was burning a gallon each direction. The $4/gallon business effectively put a stop to it.

My daily driver gets 20+ mpg around town, and burns cheaper gas. You just can't argue with that.

I might drive the GTX once every two weeks now. I miss it.

[Brock Samson]

 The high cost of premium gas about 4.80 per gallon here meant i only took the R/V out three times this year. it only gets 7 MPG,..

  The Charger gets 7-10 and there were a few times I took my daily driver instead.
  The road runner i excercise every two weeks just to keep it from sitting too long.
  So I'd say yeah, perhaps a 10% reduction in my over all driving, in the last 14 Mos. but since i retired all my driving habbits have changed a bit,    like no more 14 mile commute five times a week, and i hardly ever get to the south bay area like i was doing,so over the past three years my driving has dropped approx. 40% in miles driven overall.

[Neal_J]

No change at all.  I'm extremely fortunate to have a daily commute of < 5 miles.

Neal

[Joshua]

I've been driving @ the same, if not more, just not my Charger (see below...hahaha)......rather than buy hotrod parts, I buy gas.....

[bakerhillpins]

As a family, yes. We live approx 15mi on way from any endpoint. (work/grocery store/etc) We consistently group shopping trips into a single trek where that was only done if it was convenient in the past.

From a commuting standpoint. Technically no, The commute is the same, I drive further as the office moved but I work a day at home which offsets the distance change.

I have been commuting on my motorcycle for just about 7 years now so at least during the summer its way more fun and less painful. This winter is going to get interesting.

Bryan

[billssuperbird]

 

[Dans 68]

No. 

[twenty mike mike]

Flying less, too. 

[68rt]

no

[Chad L. Magee]

Not really.  I have to drive a certain amount each week regardless of the price of gas.  The funny thing is that last month I did get to carpool with a neighbor to pick up some stuff 120 miles away using his vehicle (he needed my help loading materials).  Luckly, I did not have to pay for the gas on that one.    He has a 2005 H2 Hummer that gets 8 mpg on a good day and it cost him $160 for the fuel on that trip......

[FJMG]

 Not at all, course up here in Canada we've been paying $4.50 - $5.00/ u.s. gal. for years, so your gas is still cheaper. We just finished an 8500 mile family holiday throughout the western U.S. in a 97 Ram 2500 4x4 with the 5.9 gas engine. We took the truck instead of the car due to my success in convincing my wife that there is much more room in the truck for camping resulting in a $100.00 a night savings in hotel fees. Of course the last couple of days of the holiday were spent filling the truck with car parts that I "needed" (a little more persuasion required those last couple of days).

[mikesbbody]

not really, i just have to pay more now but i still drive the same distance which is never very far.

[Rolling_Thunder]

nope...    neither of my mopars run so i didnt drive them in the first place   

[skip68]

No, It's just made me cry more.   

[Ghoste]

Haven't had the opportunity to let it affect me much.  I live close enough to work that I walk or ride a bike most of the time anyway, the downside to that is that I have been working so much the last few months that I have hardly driven the Charger this year.  I've hardly driven the "daily" drivers this summer.

[KMPX2]

I would say I avg. the same as last year. But my daily driver was replaced with one that gets 2x better mpg.

[LoneStar Mopar]

The price of gas hasn't slowed me down with my daily driver. I drive a volkwagon TDI (Turbo Diesel) that gets about 45 miles per gallon on average. On top of that I make my own diesel fuel from used vegetable oil I get from two local restaurants. Kind of a pain in the neck to collect oil and turn it into diesel, but the price is right. Costs about a buck a gallon to make.

[Brock Samson]

interesting, does your exhaust smell like french fries?.. 

[LoneStar Mopar]

Ha. Yeah I was under that impression as well. No my exhaust doesnt smell like any food at all!! I dont know who keeps spreading that rumor. Once you start the chemical process everything just smells like chemicals. It doesnt smell like food and it doesn't smell like petroleum diesel. My garage however smells like a mexican restaurant. Wonder if its the 300 gallons of unprocessed used cooking oil?

[Joshua]

interesting, does your exhaust smell like french fries?.. 

We had a piece of machinery at work come in that was using similar stuff.....I was wondering why I was getting the urge for Mickey D's fries...hahaha!