With the price of oil shooting up gas stations are jumping on the wagon and increasing gas prices faster than frat boys rushing to a free keg. So what is a cvillain to do? There is a website called GasBuddy which helps you look at gas prices at every gas station in your town. While this is a great idea, how much do you really save by driving to the boonies to get gas that is 2 cents cheaper? Probably nothing.
There are a couple things we can do in response to this, which you can tell us about in the poll below. For those of you who do not know what hypermiling is, read this. It is a little scary when you try it, but you can easily double your mileage.
Given the increase in gas prices, how are your driving habits changing?
Photo from Flikr.
Popularity: 29% [?]
Tagged as: cheap gas, diesel, fuel, high gas prices, hybridi, hypermilling
Vanillavy, is that Shell station actually in Charlottesville? It looks like a stock photo.
This is a vote for a poll that makes no sense!
To clarify my vote, I am driving more, faster and with the windows down while running the AC on high.
Vanillavy… you have one ‘l’ too many.. that should read hypermiling. I started to read about it and lost the will to live after the 20th handy tip. Then it said to “….avoid drivethru’s..” so I gave up at that point because they are obviously mentally deranged.
Flooz, you didn’t even make it to the “roll your windows up” part. That’s just insanity.
My favorite hypermiling tip is #568:
Remove the floorboard of your car and use your feet to accelerate your car to cruising speed, all the while yelling “WILMAAAAAA!”
Echo you are right, that is a random photo I found. And no I will not be taking pictures of gas stations anytime soon. Retaliation comments welcome.
@7: At least it actually has to do with the subject of the post. Yay!
@7 you mean there ISN’T any $2.95 gas in c’ville? i’ve been driving around looking for that station all afternoon!
I trademarked $2.95 gas.
Could someone add no difference to the poll because truly it makes no difference to me. If it gets high enough, it will get all those nasty huge SUV’s off the road and make less traffic.
I have a little carbon footprint but still wear big shoes.
american airlines is responding to fuel prices by charging for ALL checked luggage. a-holes.
link said hypermiLLing. Got me to click as I expected some space aged treadmill.
Alas, typo=let down
To lessen my carbon footprint I stole my neighbor’s kid’s bigwheel, and will be rigging up a harness so my dog can pull me to work.
here’s a shot from the most expensive gas in town today
http://www.thedalydose.com/?p=134
Everyone here goes out what appears 6 nights a week, drinks 400 dollar bottle bourbon, spends around 70 a pop for a lousy steak dinner or vegetable dinner everywhere, has discriminating tastes in wine and beer and yet the gas prices which are less than during the Carter administration in all reality and less than what everyone else in the world is paying are making everyone start to knit their own sweaters and ration leather.
I don’t think so.
@ 15
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080521/D90Q9U601.html
Uh huh. And my point was about individual choices. And reality. But nice Big Oil and Big Corporations are the culprits link. Haven’t heard that one before.
We are such victims of circumstance. Too bad we don’t have choices.
@18 Your whining about their whining really doesn’t make anything better or cause them to stop. I understand the varying opinions — maybe too well but what good is it to get them all rilled up?
taliesin, did you actually read the comments, or just assume based on the headline? cause this may be one of the least whiniest pages ever. & i think most of the people you’re generalizing about in 15 walk to their $70 vegetable/steak dinners anyway.
my habits haven’t really changed yet cuz I’ve already been hypermiling and didn’t know it. we’re lucky to live in a small town where everything is close. it’s not like places where your daily circle can have a 100-mile radius. When I lived in a big metro area, I found that my friends and coworkers lived in such scattered locales that one could spent almost half a night of partying actually on the road travelling between people’s hangouts or houses. Here, no one lives too far from Cville, and all the hangouts are concentrated within the city.
There are two things you can do.
1) You can write to your congressmen/women and tell them how much you want the state to explore increasing energy output, which means building more nuclear plants and/or drilling for oil in the northernmost tip of ANWR, which is tundra where there is no wildlife, which was specifically set aside for oil exploration.
and
2) Don’t buy a hybrid because diverting our food supply to meet the increase for ethanol was a fucking retarded idea.
OMFG according to Ethan I am retarded because I have an increasing need for alcohol.
/Never liked him much anyways
Ethan, how on Earth does driving a hybrid increase one’s consumption of ethanol? You would use less combustible fuel, hence, less of any fuel, no?
(Agreed on the food supply point in-isolation: we should be exploring cellulose-based ethanol options and general looking for renewable and more efficient sources, such as electric cars, perhaps plugged into a grid powered by a combination of solar, wind, and nuclear, etc.)
I can’t vote in this poll because none of the options apply. Why can’t I add my own? Like drinking more Ethanol to counteract all those hybrids on the road.
i can’t vote because it doesn’t matter.
Still voting for this is the dumbest poll ever.
@28 you want me to vote add “it makes no difference”
Electric cars are much easier to chase
I want the option to add my vote. Polls should always have that option - it makes them more fun.