Well I Really miss those $1 per gallon times Sure did rise fast didn't it?!

I travel less . . . and am selling my car but not for the fuel reasons

Also, I look for carpooling options

But at the same time, I haven't changed anything because I've always done that Ever since I started driving, I could always go about a month on a tank of gas because I didn't drive a lot. The biggest drives were the times of cleaning up for Hurricane Rita, and going to curch and back again.

Wow Sharon, I'm guessing that a lot of people use carpooling or they walk where you are?

Well the $1 per gallon here hasn't been for quite a while, now it's about $4 a gallon or so. Though . . . wow that's nothing close to $13 a gallon!!

It wouldn't be so bad though, if the area, or nation in general, were built and laid out better to accomodate other ways of transportation such as walking. I would absolutely love to be able to walk where I need to go, more than drive. Yet with the way things are with traffic and how far apart things are, it'd be . . . quite difficult to do that haha.

Sounds awesome to be able to bike to places you need to go like work That's how I wish we could do it here

Well for starters, I have moved closer to work which I think everyone here knows. Instead of traveling 55 miles one way, I now travel 30 which is a great big blessing for me.

I didnt take any summer road trips this year as I usually do. we pretty much sat at the house and did what you would usually do with 3.5 acres of land...YARDWORK!

I am grateful that the fuel prices have declined in the past weeks. Its hard to believe that in September it was $4.00 a gallon and now it is around $2.50 a gallon. They are saying that it should go below the two dollar mark but not by much before it starts to rise again. Praying it does. My new riding lawn mower is a fuel drinking beast with no conscience...

I got rid of my "piece of junk" 2007 Torrent, which in the 1.5 years I had it, had been in the shop at least 2 dozen times, and GM did not care. Not to mention it was suppose to be getting 19 MPG in the city and 27 MPG on the highway and I only got 20 MPG on 1 tank of gas, when I traded the piece of crap in, it was getting 18 MPG. I know why GM is in such financial trouble, that is because they do not care about their customers and do not take pride in their vehicles. I told GM, that when the 2009 vehicles come out that I would be trading in my Pontiac Torrent and I would NOT be buying another GM vehicle ever again. I bought a 2009 Ford Escape Hybrid and I love it, I have had it for 6 months and I have not had any problems at all and guess what!! Because it is a hybrid, when it gets warmed up, most of the time when you are under 40, it is running on electric, no you do not plug it in, it charges the battery, from the energy of when you use your brakes, when you slow down, the energy from the motor charges the battery. It is suppose to get 27 MPG on the highway and 29 MPG(after all it is an SUV), 3 weeks after I got it, we took it down to my family in the state of Indiana, it is a 6 hour trip one way and I was averaging 28.5, and 5 of the 6 hours is on interstate. I am averaging around 32-33 in my area. You know, when I had the Pontiac, it didn't matter whether you took off slow or speeded up like you were racing, the gas mileage stunk, with my hybrid, you can tell the difference in the mileage by how you drive which makes you more conscience of how you drive. I am very happy with my Hybrid. Actually, my Ford got around in the snow better in the winter than the torrent, even though my Ford is a touch smaller than the the torrent

As you can see, I am getting almost double the mileage on gas which is saving me a lot and the fact that gas is around $2.09 a gallon helps too.