Regular Unleaded Gasoline will cost ________/Gal. by end of summer

[Maddy McCall]

Prices in this poll are per gallon.

Also, tell us at which price level you'll have to consider retiring your vehicle and using another form of transportation. Are you cutting back on vehicle use now? In what ways?

[JDPriestly]

1. I'm using public transportation as much as possible.

[Cobalt Violet]

6. I would if I had that option.

I'm going to try to get a job closer to my home.

[Lilyhoney]

2. My husband works a mile awy from home

And when I work outside of the house it is about 15 miles away. Our 1999 car has 47,000 miles on it. Should be double that. We don't spend alot on gas for our vw cabrio. We laugh about the way people talk about filling up their tanks. Oh,and only $900 left in payments!

[ailsagirl]

3. Oh goodie-- can't wait!!

:sarcasm:

That means EVERYTHING will go up in price:
airline tickets, food prices (because of the
gas for the delivery trucks), Federal Express,
etc. etc. etc.

Thanks, Chimp!! :hi:

[newswolf56]

4. No public transport worthy of the name in Tacoma.

Buses stop running before midnight, and only run once an hour for most of the weekends. To grocery shop by bus will take me three to four hours compared to about an hour by car, and by bus I would be severely limited in my purchases by whatever quantities I could carry in a backpack and lug up a steep hill. Worse, in far too many neighborhoods, the bus stops are unsafe even during daylight hours, especially if you are an elderly Caucasian -- this because of the establishment's "politically correct" refusal to crack down on gang-bangers and street crime. Indeed -- largely because of the abysmal lack of adequate police protection -- Tacoma is by far the most frighteningly dangerous place I have ever lived, and that includes Alphabet City in NYC (Avenue B between 3rd and 4th Streets) when it was the second most dangerous neighborhood in Manhattan. To give up the safety of a car in Tacoma (or any place like it) is therefore very literally to subject yourself to living in constant terror whenever you are outside -- not something I would wish on my worse enemy.

[hlthe2b]

5. If any think there is not gouging, why would there be almost a $.29

spread between the cost of regular unleaded from one station to another in Metro Denver? I saw it for $2.01, two blocks further, $2.14 and a high of $2.30 on Friday!

This is gouging, plain and simple. It will probably be $2.50 or higher over the coming holiday weekend...:mad:

[Maddy McCall]

7. Kick

[justinsb]

8. No car already

Don't need one in Toronto - Streetcar, Subway, Busses, Bike, Sneakers and in a pinch a cab are all viable options.

[elehhhhna]

9. We should challenge the Freepers to a contest on who guesses closest.