Do you think just waiting will have an effect? We must travel 50 plus miles each and every workday. We are already not buying from Exxon or Mobil so you must change your ways, too. 

We don�t go any more often. We stay home on weekends and don�t visit anyone. I remember living inside the city and liking that I could always take the bus but we can�t do that now. OPEC is talking of $80 a barrel on oil and that�s a lot higher that projected. Would it do more good that folks look to not taking vacations. Not visiting relatives when they would have. To spend a bit more on phone visits and such. To write more letters and send a home video or CD for a special occasion.

It does little good to not buy something on a given day of the week. That means you�d buy early and later but you�d be buying the same. There has to be more ways to save money on traveling. I remember how long ago I could go from Denver, Colorado to Abilene, Texas on a tank of gas. Doesn�t work the other direction since that would be uphill. (Quit laughing) Yes, I did have a VW and couldn�t very well get over 50 mph in the first place and I was broke. I wouldn�t suggest stopping at closed gas stations and draining the hoses like we used to do since the pumps are more high tech now. But traveling at lower speeds uses less fuel.

But it would be interesting to collect some tips and hints for how to save. Just think, in Hawaii, they pay over $8 a gallon for gasoline. We have oil pumps one per ever 20 acres of space yet there is not one drop sold locally. The last gas stations that did had to charge a little more and no one would spend any extra. Even the refineries sit idle. All the people working in the oilfield have long since moved on to other professions. It makes us wish we�d been looking toward the hybrid and electric cars more seriously for the last 10 years or so. I am surprised there isn�t more talk about building another pipeline to Alaska. The original didn�t harm the environment and is now needing to be replaced.

Our friend Jeannie in England tells of their last increase in petrol costs putting the price up to $11 a gallon. She is moving to France. She relates that the cost of real estate has also gone through the roof (so to speak.) Just because we can remember when gas wars had prices around $.15 a gallon and our schools were funded by the oil industry doesn't mean those time will ever come again.