What is your gas price ceiling? What is your gas price limit?

[Anonymous]

I'm a single mom on one income so I'm a little nervous. I do have a dutch cargo bike that I can ride all my kids around in though which is a nice option.

[Anonymous]

It seems 5 dollars a gallon is when there’s a national emergency

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I don't get the question.

This has been measured before. When gas prices rose in the 1970s, drivers reduced non-essential trips. Carpooling and public transportation increased. Long-term, people also replaced their cars with smaller and more efficient models, which drove changes in the automobile industry but I think OP's question was about the short term.

Nobody is coming out ahead buying a new car, no matter the cost of gas. Cars and taxes are $$$$$

Actually, won't people switch to electric vehicles?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I cycle to work. I couldn’t care less what gas prices are.

Do you buy anything at the store? How do you think that gets there? Do you have gas at home for heat or cooking?

Different kind of gas, just fyi.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:stupid question you think people are going to sit home and not go anywhere because of gas prices or suddenly start using the bus?

This might the stupidest question yet. Of course they will.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems 5 dollars a gallon is when there’s a national emergency

It already is in parts of the country. I live in one of them.

I have no ceiling otherwise I would not be able to go anywhere. No reliable public transportation options. I’m ok with this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I cycle to work. I couldn’t care less what gas prices are.

Do you buy anything at the store? How do you think that gets there? Do you have gas at home for heat or cooking?

Different kind of gas, just fyi.

Tell me you don't know how the gas gets to your stove without telling me.

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Anonymous wrote:I live in urban Arlington, WFH and have a 2019 car with less than 40k miles. I’ll pay whatever price is available but I’ll only do it every 3 weeks or so, thank goodness.

Similar - but I am in-office every day, but that office is also in Arlington, so I can also go 2.5-3 weeks. I would love to bike to work, but after-school kid stuff is in the opposite direction and makes it unmanageable.

[Anonymous]

This is a little silly. The price of gas in the US is still way cheaper than nearly everywhere else in the world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a little silly. The price of gas in the US is still way cheaper than nearly everywhere else in the world.

And this is a terrible argument. Well durp durp it's worse elsewhere durp durp.

[Anonymous]

My husband will drive to cheaper gas stations but that is it. We try to drive my hybrid more because it uses less gas but is also too small for car pooling so you pay what you have to.

[Anonymous]

Remember when we elected a criminal to be president because gas prices rose just a little bit and now we might have WWIII and gas is going through the roof?

Great work team. Really great work.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a little silly. The price of gas in the US is still way cheaper than nearly everywhere else in the world.

And this is a terrible argument. Well durp durp it's worse elsewhere durp durp.

Lol elsewhere in the world those taxes are being spent on excellent infrastructure like high speed roads and public transportation, as well as universal healthcare, low to no cost college or technical school. Those expenses are balanced out by paying more for gas.

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Anonymous wrote:Remember when we elected a criminal to be president because gas prices rose just a little bit and now we might have WWIII and gas is going through the roof?

Great work team. Really great work.

But the US sells a lot of gas so it's actually great news (or something like that).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:stupid question you think people are going to sit home and not go anywhere because of gas prices or suddenly start using the bus?

+1 Let all be shut in's because of gas prices (which are still lower than last year, funny how you all have forgotten). And my bus riding days are long over. That's another discussion entirely.