We've hit $4 a gallon for gas and $5 for diesel

My sister-in-law is right. The other day I was talking to her on the phone. She lives in Texas and we were discussing about cars and the expenses especially here in the UK. She was telling me that my brother which is her husband is planning to resell their Montero and get a smaller car because the former consumes more gas. She even mentioned these very words, "Maybe next week it will go up to $5. Every week the price goes up." And she's just right!

Well we haven't hit that mark yet. Actually our prices went down a few cents since the holiday weekend. When I was out yesterday I saw prices from $3.75 and up. Over the past weekend they were over $3.85. It does make it very difficult to do things when it's so expensive. We have limited our travel to only when necessary and combining as many trips into one as possible. Now our heating bills aren't done by gas but electric but I do know many even here in the suburbs that have fireplaces. I wish we did but our house didn't come with one. Even though I'm in a small city I planted tomatoes and cucumbers this year. I'm hoping they will help with the costs. I'm just very glad that now my sister's doctors are all local. When she was on Workman's Comp we had to drive an hour each way to each of her doctors and they would never be on the same day.

I live in town. My son is in a wheelchair, and riding a bicycle is not an option, walking is not either as not all are accessible and some places don't have one. We have just bought a scooter for my husband to drive to work.

It sucks for me because riding a bike isn't an option, and I don't have a place for a garden, on top of being too expensive to move where I can have a garden. I've thought about buying a horse though... a horse and buggy. feeding a dang horse is probably cheaper then gas prices! Me and my boyfriend have had conversations about buying a horse, I know we are totally joking, but with the costs of everything these days, I Swear if it was cheaper and I could keep a horse, I probably would do it! I try to walk everywhere I can. It's hard for us though because my son has medical equipment and normally that takes up the whole back seat of my truck with his carseat. So in his stroller I load it down and we walk to the little convenience store sometimes instead of driving, but it's hard... but we do it to save a little. I wonder if gas prices will ever go down to a comfortable level. It sucks. As of Friday we were paying $3.97 still for gas, but I haven't drive anywhere since then and they are probably higher now :*(

Well the US had a chance to make the majority of the development efficient (or efficient in my opinion): close together, viable for car, walking and public transportation. That chance spanned what... 40...50 years? Instead of doing it that way, the government, developers and people chose what the US has now... all on two faulty assumptions. One that fossil fuel = infinity. And two... the current way is the American Way™. The price of oil is still rising despite all of the talk (and lack of action I must add... but eh, what's several years of inaction tacked on to decades of poor action?) Its a sad but earned state of affairs. Anyways, I'd say its more efficient to live closer to urban cores. However, there are advantages to living out in the country like you've described.

Where will it all end?? Its not quite that bad here (Southeast Georgia) it is not very far away. We are at 3.89 the last that I bought. I am sure that there are some stations near here that have already hit 4.00 a gallon.

What a great question and great topic! I'm not sure which would be better today, gas is so expensive I don't know how some people can afford to go to work but food and everything else is also outrageous, mostly because of energy costs so I guess it's six of one, half dozen of another. I idea situation would be to live on the outskirts of the town where you work and shop so you don't have a long drive to work but still have enough room to grow some of your own vegetables. I just can't believe how bad things have gotten. I'm in Berwick and not too long ago we had a bunch of manufacturing plants that paid pretty good plus a ton of garment factories that paid decent enough and were even within walking distance for lots of women who worked there. Those days are gone and so are the jobs. We now have a chip plant and that's about it. Most of the people that live around here that have good jobs have to spend so much for gas to go back and forth to work they still don't have anything left! I've heard of some towns having community gardens, which really sounds like a good idea if there's a place to have it. I think back longingly to the days when I had my little Honda Civic which cost me about $8 every 2 1/2 - 3 weeks for gas and that was driving about 40 miles each day to work and back plus other trips here and there. Those were the good old days! Annie

$4 a Gallon? Wow...luxury! Try living in the UK. We pay $10 a gallon!