The national headline is this: Gas prices across the country hit a record average of $3.50 per gallon today.
On Long Island, the average is $3.69 per gallon.
And if you’re headed to the Shell at 135 East Main St. in Huntington, you’ll pay $3.99 per gallon, according to LongIslandGasPrices.com, that’s just one penny away from the dreaded $4-per-gallon mark.
Though few disputed that we’d soon hit $4, most agreed that a per-gallon price that high would surely cause locals to make major changes in their gas consumption.
So, now that we’re pennies away, will you make changes?
I already made changes when is topped $3. I religiously drive at the speed limit now. It helps.
Derf — I have been doing the same thing — to the detriment of other drivers, of course — but I don’t really care. I can now go an entire week on a tank of gas back and forth to work and daycare. I could not do that before I started making sure to maintain the speed limit. By the way, I still arrive on time to work each and every day!
There aren’t too many changes my husband and I can in our driving. I work close to home. He’s retired. Our car is six years old, has 53K miles on it and we share it. The price of gas isn’t too problematic for us, even though our income isn’t high at all. But the more generalized inflation caused by the price of oil and, more than anything else right now, the price of home heating oil – those are killing us. It’s more than driving habits that people are being forced to change.
Zenyenta — I think you are right on. All of the costs that are going up because of the spike in gas is the real “hurt” in all this. Everything just keeps going up and up….
The primary cause of the rising price of gas is the Government printing more money and inflating the dollar.
The rise in prices is simply a tax for excessive Government spending (including the cost of Bush’s Iraq War).
Our reaction to rising gas prices should be a call for less Government spending and a “cut and run” from Iraq (South Korea, Germany, Japan, etc.)…and a stronger dollar!