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It certainly has affected me! Traffic has seemed to have slowed a bit on the local roads...the interstate is as crazy as ever!! There are less "out-of-staters" on the roads than usual. Haven't heard anything about siphonings or gas pump thievery though!!
 
I avoid the interstates here, but hit I95 probably twice a week. The limit is posted 70mph here, and I probably set my cruise control at 74...aside from the bus-size RVs I'm probably one of the slower ones on the road.

Drive-offs? They've had to park "ghost cars" (unoccupied police vehicles) at various gas stations to discourage the idea, but that's been going on for at least 10 years.

Siphoning or stealing fuel? I've heard of some stations getting hit, but not cars. In Orlando they just caught some people that disabled part of a fuel pump so they could use the pump without anyone knowing.

Over the past couple of years I've heard of other cases where people would park trailers over the main fuel tank, then they'd open a hatch in the floor and pump fuel into a holding tank in the back of the trailer, close everything up, then drive off.
 
Jerri & I were just talking about this as we drove home from our favorite little Saturday morning breakfast place - about 20 miles from us....I've started driving my old '92 Sonoma more than my big Dodge truck and I'm driving slower & have been using my vent instead of AC; she's started combining all her errands into 1 trip.

...but she agreed with me that MG's are excluded from any changes in use!!
 
It's definatly on my mind during my commute.
I now do 25 miles each way on a 2 lane highway with a speed limit of 55. I used to pass cars that were not doing 60-65 and stay with the speedy crowd. Now I will not go faster than 60 (and that's only if traffic is flowing that fast) and I will not pass (takes too much gas to pass) unless theres a 45 mph dump truck impeding a half mile line of cars.
Also there are several small hills and two large hills on my commute. I put it in nutral (5 speed manual car) and coast down the hills. I probably idle for a total of 2 miles during the trip doing that.
My constant thought is inertia. keep the car moving steady, try not to use the brakes, hang back so your speed can stay steady. any time you push that accelerator it's using more gas than if you're maintaining a steady speed.
If I find I'm slowing down, I try to wait for a downhill to gain some momentum.
My BMW has a little MPG guage on it. I like that cause it's a visual reminder for me. I don't count it accurate, but I still see that needle dive twards 0MPG whenever I step on it.
I also make sure to leave early so I don't drive aggresivly.
I has made a marked difference in my fuel mileage.
 
Yay for high gas prices! :wink: Ok, so they suck, but I'm almost willing to pay more for fuel to reduce the number of cars on the road. Would you pay $30 per month to get 20% of the cars off the road? I would!

There are occasional siphonings here in So Cal, but you can't drive away from a pump because they are all "pay first". I haven't seen a "pump first" anywhere near a large city in several years. In fact I rarely even see them in small towns these days.
 
I've noticed alot more people driving even slower than normal around town. The interstate is getting interesting as people are slowing down. Granted in this state you could pass people all day long going the 75mph limit when gas was cheap now you have to watch out as some people are now driving at 55mph or less on the interstate and even lower on the state highways.
 
A prudent observation of the posted speed limits, "timing" traffic lights so that I have to come to a dead stop as rarely as possible, using the "scenic routes which involve less stop-and-go traffic and avoiding the higher speed-limited roads, using the AC only when it is unbearably hot, have all contributed to gas conservation for me, also improved planning of trips to the supermarket which my wife and I had a tendency to make too often for too few items!!
 
alana said:
No difference here as far as I can tell.
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None that I can see either although the newspaper reported
ridership on the Urban Train increased by 37% in April.

We are trying to combine our usual numerous weekly errands
trips into more errands per trip.

I am trying to make more use of my boat with a burn rate
of 1 gal/hour compared to our Jeeps at 4 gal/hour.

We are going out to dinner less since the gasoline to get
to the restaurants costs more than the meal.

Gasoline has suddenly become a major weekly expense for us.

d :madder:
 
I haven't noticed a difference either.
 
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