We will be taking less trips, but staying out longer. We will be heading to the Idaho panhandle for a week. We are towing an enclosed trailer with the toad (Harley) in it. We were going to just take the bike, but restaurant food and lodging would cost us more then the fuel.
If gas and fuel keeps going up, everything else will too. People can only pinch so much. Hopefully the S--- will hit the fan soon, and prices drop.
We volunteer as ski patrollers in the winter. Last winter we drove about 3000 miles. At almost 60 cents a mile, that's getting a bit expensive to volunteer.
I (2-10-05) bought a 2002 F350 CC SWD PSD and a new 2003 Citation 10'8. Rancho 9000X & Toyo M55's.I have been a tent camper all my life. I wanted more comfort while doing my Willamette Backcountry Ski Patrol & Crater Lake Ski Patrol duties.11
Starbucks costs $3. Twice a week is $6. Over a 30 gal tank, cut out two starbucks a week and you've saved 20 cents a gal if the tank lasts a week. Mine lasts much longer, thankfully.
Seriously, there are some great "frugal" ways to save that make nary a dent in one's quality of life. Instead of carbon offsets, let's call it "fuel offsets". That oughta make the "green taliban" see red.
I compute to work on my motorcycle during the summer months. It gets 60 mpg. Winter months I use the pickup and it gets 22 mpg. The RV gets 11 mpg, but overall my (personal) CAFE for my "fleet" is about 32 mpg. If it gas goes much higher I'll buy a heavy coat for the winter and extend the motorcycle phase into the colder months. :-)
Working more, eliminating cable, enjoying frugal fresh food eat-outs (taco joints, etc.), camping less often, traveling shorter distances, steady on the throttle instead of wasteful cruse control, staying longer, saving all the spare change for the next outing.
I'm surprised this thread has gone this far without someone mentioning the Costco American Express card.
They have a "Business" card that gets you a 5% rebate on gas purchases with no limit on the rebate. There are some restrictions where the rebate doesn't apply, but they're pretty minimal.
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Personally, I don't buy into the whole rebate thing with credit cards, the rebate just translates into greater expense for the business handling the card and thus drives their prices up, so in the end, yer really not saving anything.
I love the comment on Starbux. I don't drink starbucks. Really, I can get regular coffee in great big cups at work for pennies of what a starbux coffee would cost. Currently I'm debating continuing commuting because the difference in renting rates between where i work and where I live now = what I pay in gas. So, when my contract runs out and I'm on downtime, that expense goes away, where as the high priced rent living closer to work would not, so in the end I wind up saving money by commuting more. Its really really sad, but the PDX area is just over priced.
I take maybe one camping trip a month, though there's a month inbetween the trips, so likely I'll get in around.... 4-5 trips with the camper this year (none longer than 4 days). So glad the thing is paid for, and I only paid $1500.... I'd hate to be using it that little and be paying a loan down for $20-30.
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Kroger has a customer card that gives you 10 cents off on each gallon for every $100 you spend in the pervious month. I think until the end of June you can purchase a gift card in the amount of $300, 600 or $1200 and it give you 10% extra. The amounts are supposed to reflect your Government incentive rebate or whatever.
I went into the store and bought a $300 gift card that showed a $330 value. I then went out to the pump and scanned my Kroger card for the 10 cent discount. I pumped $330 worth of gas, 86 gals, and paid for it with the card I just bought for $300. $3.919 gas ended up costing less than $3.50 a gal.
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Surfrat, one of thoes places is a WILDLIFE REFUGE up here in alaska. you want a spill and kill tons of animals (well i guess you guys dont care, cuse were "so far" away) im willing to pay alot more than some of you cuse the corperations are dumb enough to pay to ship the oil from the north slop to the rest of the country, train/truck it to a refienery, refine it, and ship it all the way back up here. The prices are just something we have to deal with. many of you may not no this but when they drill for oil they get alot of natural gas, right now most of that gas is burned for no reason rigth after is comes out of the ground it huge flames that never stop. you guys should help in supporting the trans-cannada pipeline so you all can get cheeper natrual gas and to keep it from being burned. just a thought on what you could do to save money and help the enviroment a little by not unnessarialy buring the as at the rigs and using it where its needed. i like to think of it as at least we dot live in some other parts of the world (cannada, europe etc.) they pay TONS more.
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