I did about 20 miles in the STI today, it hadn't been started in 2 weeks, and was sitting with an empty tank.

Beautiful weather at about 6pm, went to Chevron and filled up @ $4.37...but only 56 dollars since I had just over a quarter tank...then took it for a little spin through the foothills.

I'm driving to Reno from here a week from Thursday, so it will probably sit until then. I miss driving out to the coast, @ $70/250 miles (or 2 spirited drives down the coast and back) it's lost its appeal a bit, which is kind of making me want to sell it.

Anybody else significantly cut back on driving with gas prices what they are?

/sad rant

 

Yeah I have had to put a serious curb on driving all together. I don't even dare start my 454 Suburban It's really sad and it's just going to get a lot worse.

 

Apart from organizing a rally about 300 miles away, I'm not driving at all unless I really need to.

I have to figure- the only way the prices are going to turn around is for the demand to go down, so I'm riding my bike a lot more and doing stuff at home, but recreational drives are over until gas gets back where I can afford it.


which from the looks of things -might be never.

 

wow
makes me so glad i only have to drive 8 miles to work and back
yeah, contemplating selling my DSM and picking up a hatchback
so sad

 

i've just been shifting at 3k and getting 200+ miles per half tank (~30$)

 

Must be nice. I am almost thinking of asking Mike if he can do an economy tune, prolly save the money for the tune in less gas in like a month! Crazy times.

 

My daily commute is ~10 miles each way. I don't have underground or covered parking at work, so I take the Civic (32mpg ftw?)...no sense in sitting in traffic the whole while I'm on the road, just to leave the Subaru out in the sun all day.

The only real times I drive the STI are on the weekends and the occasional Friday. Many people that I know aren't doing all that much on weekends anymore because of the gas prices...they're just staying home, playing xbox etc.

This freaking sucks. I'd hate it if I had to get rid of the Subaru...I will never not love that car. If it were paid off, I think it'd be easier to drive it more...maybe if I can just tough it out for another 2 years I'll get to have fun with it again...but by then I'll be 28 and gas will be 8 bucks a gallon

 

I ride my motorcycle 90% of the time now. Also fixing up MR2 for everyday use. Little first gen mr2 gets 35-38 mpg

 

I haven't been to our mountain course if WEEKS. We used to go 4-5 times a week

 

i ride the motorcycle 90% of the time nowadays

 

it's really hard to cut down driving when i just got my suby 3 weeks ago, and prices just continue to rise ... i'm cutting back on driving this week though. past 2 weeks have just been here and there so much.

i never recall driving this much with my 350z...

 

Already sold my STI. gas sux. I still drive the M3 on some weekend days, but driving the beater street miata (30mpg) a lot more these days since it chugs regular and at a much slower pace.

 

Hell I was stoked to see 100 octane is on sale fri-sun at $5.99. Saved me some money.

Just run higher octane like I do and 91 oct prices won't seem so bad anymore.

 

it's hard for me to get away from driving. it's encouraged me to look in to spending more money (on a gas sipper)

 

im glad everything is close by. My work and school is only a few miles away from home =)