Anyone make any changes to offset these higher fuel prices?
I drive a transit bus and right now I have a split schedule. So after my morning shift I come home for about 3 hours, then head back for my afternoon shift. I don’t live too far away, about 22 miles. So normally 88 miles a day x’s 5. So this week after my morning shift, I just stayed on base till my afternoon shift. Then fortunately we have what they call a shake up 3 times a year, where routes get mixed up and then you bid on new routes in order of seniority. We bid on them last week and will start driving them on the 28th of this month. The good news for me was that I was able to get a straight for the first time. So now , I’m driving a shift with no break in the middle of the day which means, I cut my normal drive in half, 44 miles a day. Anyway have any of you adjusted your normal routine to offset your fuel costs?
deisel here has gone up 1.20 cents a litre. (approx. 60% rise) will def make people change habbits, not me just yet, im glad i had booked flights earlier in the year,
in retrospect, it seems to me that making a deal with some allies to keep the straight of Hormuz open would have been a good idea, or maybe not just starting another regime change war, which have all gone pretty terrible in the past,
the fun part of watching trumps performances is fading,
Not a bit.
Road tripped to our place in N.Carolina for three days of the banff mt film festival.
Always a good time with friends from across the S.E.
Nobody bailed due to the price per gallon.
In a couple of weeks we're driving up to Bardstown KY for a tour of bourbon distilleries.
Then next month off to N.California for a friend's wedding and a road trip up the coast.
Life goes on. And there's no time sit around.
Fill up and go.
Good attitude.👍🏻
Enterprises will need to accommodate higher shipping costs, which are typically passed to the consumer. So it’s more than just price at the pump.
Fortunately the increases are largely due to speculation, not actual supply. A quick end to hostilities should be followed by an easing in price per barrel. However, a continuation will restrict distribution and disrupt production. Trump and Israel are deep inside Iran’s melon, and both sides could escalate events, with significant repercussions.
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That's the spirit.
My brother used to be a transit driver and he bid on the split shifts most of the time. He had a routine worked out where he was able to go to the local golf course and get at least 9 holes in every day between segments. He ended up really improving his game and competing for wins at Pro-Ams.
His commute was a little over 40 miles each way so strictly from a time standpoint it would have been almost silly to go home between segments, even if he drove a Tesla or similar.
"In a couple of weeks we're driving up to Bardstown KY for a tour of bourbon distilleries."
My buddy just went there, (assuming the same area) and had a blast. Already talking about going back. He sure came back with some nice stuff.
She went to a silent auction and that was one of the things she bid on, a bourbon tour.
I did some work in bardstown about 10yrs ago and was amazed at all of the huge storage barns that everywhere in the area.
We're hoping to score some good stuff to add to our collection.
Just got diesel here and it’s £1.60 per litre 😡
Yeah, I've seen photos of the rickhouses, pretty amazing the size and quantity that the big boys have.
My buddy is the distiller at a small distillery in Ft. Worth, and his rickhouse, if you could really call it that probably stores 100-150 barrels. Those big ones are mind blowing.
I live in CA, high gas prices are just what we live with. It's tiring complaining about the same damn thing year after year after year. Absent the Iran issue, we'd still have high gas prices. Apparently we like abuse in CA.
I’m driving 9 hours in May for my daughter’s graduation, and for comfort, I’m renting a Suburban. It’s not exactly fuel efficient, but I’m assuming prices will come down by then. If not, like Joey, I’ll just pay a little more and still have a good time. The oil prices pendulum have gone back and forth my whole life. In 67 years, I just dealt with it and kept going.
Me thinks you didn’t have this attitude when prices were high under sleepy joe.
Then it was all
Rain and thunder
And lightning crumbling
Buildings falling
Hurricanes Earth shattering
Membranes scattering
Insane happening
Souls keeps burning
And the sky keeps plummeting down
I don't put on that many miles normally so I doubt I will do anything drastic. Price dipped down below $4 a few weeks ago and yesterday I paid $5.55. I'm assuming that your poll question was based on the recent war of choice entered into by Trump which is the primary cause of the increase. This recent bullshit did not change what I think of Orange man. Your poll doesn't include an option which adequately describes my opinion.
I'll leave it at that.
Ours has gone up about 50 cents to 3.70 a gallon. Still much cheaper then paying over 5 a gallon when rubber stamp was in office.
91 was $5.85/g here yesterday. I fill up weekly and my car takes about 13g, so the difference between something like $3.85/g and $5.85/g is still only ~$100/mo. Thats not enough to change my driving.
Right? Gas prices going up 50 to 75 cents is kind of like what just happens when they switch to summer blend.
For those of you who don't live in California and don't get the "summer blend" reference, that's when the state requires refiners to add chemicals to reduce gasoline volatility and improve air quality. Think of it as "Extra-" Magic Gas, instead of the regular old Magic Gas that we already pay $1.50 more for than you do.
I sure am glad that the Magic Gas never runs out, allows my car to fly, and cures Cancer. Oh, wait, it doesn't do any of those things....
I know it could be much much worse and perhaps it will get worse but dang I wish we could have just 5 years of no drama. Covid, supply chain issues, inflation, housing prices, interest rate hikes, Ukraine war, gas prices, Iran, gas prices. Just let us catch our breath for a moment.
I won’t be driving my diesel too much but fortunately have a fuel efficient car for most trips.
Pit Row
Every shipping ticket coming in has a
" Fuel Surcharge " cost added
Pass the buck down the road...
Many people who don't live here have no clue that CA drives up the cost of fuel on purpose. They openly said the want to phase out cars. And they are doing it by removing lanes to create more traffic to make it so uncomfortable that you will give up driving yourself and convert to public transportation. One portion of the operation, they called it a "road diet". Now in addition to that, they regulate the fuel so much that it drives up the cost to produce (war or no war). Absent all the extra taxes we pay in CA (which are very high), they implemented new regulations (on top of the summer blend as Falcon pointed out) in CA that have caused the refineries to determine it's "not worth it" to do business in CA. The refineries have paid billions to CA to let them stop doing business and shut down facilities. Because those facilities accounted for a good percentage of our fuel, we now have to bring in fuel from other places. Due to an old maritime law, if you transport fuel from one state to another via ship, you have to use a US flagged ship. But there's not enough of those in existence, so the fuel, to get around that law, has to get shipped to the Caribbean first so it's considered "international" driving up the cost due to extra shipping miles. So for all you that want to blame the Iran deal, just know that it's way more complicated for us in CA.
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In my new home of MN, it's odd. I see the prices of gas the last couple weeks going up, but I am a born and bred Southern California guy, so I think I am just so used to getting fucked at the pump that when I see it up a dollar or so a gallon, it's like damn, it's still so cheap.
But when I go next door and talk to the guys building our house, they are livid with the increases. Can't believe it's all the way back up to $3.70 a gallon. 🤣
Yes gas being more expensive sucks, but doesn't change our plans for anything day to day.
Everything is expensive compared to 5 years ago, gas has always fluctuated, hopefully this gas squeeze doesn't last much longer. But prices never go down as fast as they go up. For anything.
Went up .10 cents in 8 hours...
$4.39
5.49 diesel in central Florida, awesome
Paid 3.62 after work today.
You would be wrong, as usual.
Spent every weekend traveling back and forth (8hrs) delivering gas, food, etc... to friends, and people we didn't even know, dealing with the aftermath of hurricane helene.
The mental gymnastics going on around here to try and justify current events is wild.
Reality...
For years now, spanning the course of numerous administrations, you take a Benjamin to the gas station, fill up, take your change and move on down the road.
We've all seen how anything happening on the world stage will bump the price at the pump overnight, whether the price per barrel rises or not.
It's all in the hands of speculators.
That's all well and good my friend, but the amount of Biden "I did that" stickers stuck on fuel pumps that were posted here as meme's say's otherwise. For some reason that senile turd got all the blame, especially around here, yet when it comes to Trump it's just a world stage thing and speculators. Dude literally started bombing a country half a world away directly causing this spike, yet for you it's all good in the hood and the cost of doing business.
If anything, at least try and be consistent in your convictions.
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