Gas prices. How are they affecting your everyday life?

I am a homemaker and stay home most of the time except when I need groceries. Then I do all my errands, like to the bank, shopping or whatever needs to be done. I live 25 mins from my elderly mother and have had to cut back going there. My husband spends over $100 a week for gas going to and from work. He has his own tri-axle dump truck and company,but the lease drivers can't afford the gas to run anymore since they don't get anything to help them pay for theirs. So our truck sits idle in our back yard and he got another job. We have quit eating out almost completely. We are both on SS but he had to get a job just to make ends met since the gas and groceries have gotten so high. A gallon of milk that used to be $1 is now right at $5, and a dozen eggs around $2. I noticed meat has gotten so high hardly anyone can afford it! We eat lots of vegetables, but not many fruits since they are so high, too. We own our home in the country and we can't get closer to our job. Even if we wanted to sell our home and our property, most people couldn't afford it. Houses just aren't selling out here like they did before things got so expensive. Can't sell our truck because lease drivers just can't make it anymore.

I've been without a car for a couple months now because I'm waiting for my disability claim to be approved so money is tight and my car needed more work than it was worth in order to pass inspection and I wasn't allowed to keep it in our town with an expired registration or with no insurance on it. The ironic thing is if ever there could have been a "good" time for me to be without wheels it would be now. I've rediscovered my feet! Annie

Yes, the increase in the petroleum products pricing will affect the everyone's day to day life. The price increase will took place two or three times in the past one year. Its due to the Crude oil price increase in theinternational market. The crude oil price was around $30.00 to $40.00 in the couple of years back, but now it has raised to $130.00 and more.. The increase in price will not be avoidable, this is the statement of our government. The Governemnt has cut lots of duties and taxes for the petroleum products so far, and over and above even now, all the Oil marketing companies has get more than 500 crores loss in a day.. this has been componsated by Government by issuing the Oil bonds. Due to this reason The govenment has increase the price of all teh petroleum products like petrol, diesel and the Gas prices

yes, in a favorable way. I am now more determined to use my bike to go to church or jog the video rental place, and I have more time with my family and pets because try to come home right after work so as not to be tempted to do other things that are unnecessary, basically to save gas.

As international fuel prices are increased our central government also increased the fuel rates like wise gas cost also increased but our state government did not increased the gas cost that is not effecting me

I'm lucky that for the most part, any direct effects have been relatively few. I walk to work and my kids walked to school when it was still in session. If I need to travel for my job, I have access to public transportation (which my company pays for) or can use a company car (and be reimbursed for gas). I have made lifestyle changes, but those have been fairly small when compared to the major shifts that many people have had to make - going without an item forgotten off the grocery list because I'm not making an extra trip to the store, more carefully planning any day trips with the kids (mostly to visit family to cut out any extra entertainment costs like admission or food), and basically treating my Pathfinder as a luxury rather than a mobile extension of my home (the car is definitely cleaner since we started using it less!!!). Thankfully we just moved last year from a house to an apartment so there are more kids in the complex to play with - otherwise they'd be after me to "drive them to x's house" or "can we go somewhere? I'm bored!" But my eldest had to give up a party with her friends from her old school because I couldn't work a 40 minute trip (20 there, 20 back) into the gas budget. Indirectly, there is the rise in the cost of food and our change in eating habits - milk is so expensive the kids don't dare chug it by the gallon anymore and the other day one actually measured the amount she poured into her cereal. I won't scrimp on fresh veggies or fruit, but those are much more expensive then they generally are this time of year and the kids have stopped asking to get snacks in the junk food aisle because they know I can't do both. The kids drink from a pitcher of tap water in the fridge and know that it's "one juice box, one glass of water". I've told them that not only is food more expensive, but if we run out we're not getting any more till the next time we go shopping. Another indirect cost reflection is the rise in the A/C subsidy my landlord takes out. No more leaving them permanently in the windows - I'm charged from the moment they go in to the moment they come out. Thank GOD it was a cool spring but we had a short heat spike (up over 100) which added another month on. I hope we don't have a warm October - I want these things back in the closet on 10/1! So far we've been able to keep our overall quality of life about the same but this isn't the case for the majority. I'm blessed and I know it!