| User | Comment |
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Galomorro   | | posted 23-Jun-2008 7:49pm |
No. I don't like traveling, even if I had money to do so. I like riding in planes themselves but what would spoil it for me -- if I could afford it and did indeed want to travel someplace -- is the huge amount of waiting -- high security, searches, having to remove my shoes, getting there way early and having to wait in long lines with nothing to do, etc. Too impatient to travel. And gas prices mean nothing to me since I don't drive. |
| stellarlove21 | | posted 23-Jun-2008 8:19pm |
My fiance & I traveled to Mackinaw, MI, which was a 10-hour round trip, and now we are paying for it. We've had to cut back on doing anything fun because it cost us over $100 in gas (and this was driving a fuel-efficient car) to get there. |
bill   | | posted 23-Jun-2008 8:44pm |
It hasn't affected our plans, so far. |
| southernyankee | | posted 23-Jun-2008 9:38pm |
No my plans haven't changed because I normally don't travel anywhere that much anyway. |
Kristal_Rose  | | posted 23-Jun-2008 10:59pm |
I only travel half-way across the state for Christmas anyhow, and only by train in recent years (baggage security on planes is too annoying for over-packed musicians these days).
I'm building a solar-steam powered camping moped, so I wont be terribly affected anyhow. I sold my car a year ago.
I have no idea what these survey options are even supposed to mean. Do I answer to 'affected / staying put' or 'travelling abroad'?
Where is gas $9/gal.? |
| Pomeranian | | posted 24-Jun-2008 12:01am |
fate will strike me down for saying this but I had the foresight to never learn to drive so I don't personally care what the price of gas is. Sucks to be the rest of you though. |
| LindaH | | posted 24-Jun-2008 12:03am |
No, but I'm still going to accelerate rapidly. |
Melf  | | posted 24-Jun-2008 2:14am |
I'm staying in England this year (though I was offered to go to Bremen). I'm going by train. |
| kirst | | posted 24-Jun-2008 5:06am |
Confused by this...there is no survey question. The explanation contains 3 questions...No, Yes, No.
The price of fuel has not affected my travel plans. We fly back to the US (from Hong Kong) on June 28th and (the kids & I) return on August 28th. While we're in the US, we'll be flying to Boston, Virginia/DC, and Sarasota.
I'm glad that the price of fuel has finally increased in the US. Maybe now people there will be a bit more concerned with pollution and global warming. I'm frightened by the lack of concern for global warming in the richest country in the world.
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| kirst |
We pay over US$ 8.50 /gallon for regular gasoline here in Hong Kong. |
| Biggles | | posted 24-Jun-2008 7:35am |
I do plan to travel around the country to see friends this summer, but I'll use public transport. As long as I buy my tickets well in advance, I should be able to travel for a reasonable cost. It isn't petrol prices specifically that concern me - rather it's the economy as a whole. I'm pretty frugal though so hopefully my money will last me as long as I need it to. |
| Biggles |
And it's over $9 dollars for a US gallon here in the UK. |
| judgescratch | | posted 24-Jun-2008 8:15am |
no |
cloudhugger  | | posted 24-Jun-2008 8:52am |
Who YOU CALLING A BROAD????
Due to the price of gas, I am wearing my shorts more often. |
| Iseult | | posted 24-Jun-2008 9:22am |
No, it hasn't affected my plans at all. As a matter of fact, I am leaving to go on a trip later on today. |
| they | | posted 24-Jun-2008 11:12am |
No |
| cerealkiller | | posted 24-Jun-2008 4:59pm |
No. We never travel any time of the year. |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to kirst) posted 24-Jun-2008 8:15pm |
Ah. From what I hear they want to expand use of cars there and oil based industrialisation there. Is that really true? |
| Kristal_Rose |
"Due to the price of gas, I am wearing my shorts more often."
For hitch-hiking, or because the air-conditioner is more costly? |
| JessicaWoman99 | | posted 24-Jun-2008 8:55pm |
The price of gas has not stopped my travel plans or wherever I have to go plus the fact my car is great on a tank
of gas and affordable |
| JessicaWoman99 |
> I only travel half-way across the state for Christmas anyhow, and
> only by train in recent years (baggage security on planes is too annoying
> for over-packed musicians these days).
>
> I'm building a solar-steam powered camping moped, so I wont be terribly
> affected anyhow. I sold my car a year ago.
>
> I have no idea what these survey options are even supposed to mean.
> Do I answer to 'affected / staying put' or 'travelling abroad'?
>
> Where is gas $9/gal.?
Kristal Rose in the U.K. they are paying anywhere from $9.00 to $10.00 a gallon for gas? |
| JessicaWoman99 | | (reply to Biggles) posted 24-Jun-2008 8:59pm |
> And it's over $9 dollars for a US gallon here in the UK.
And just what I was trying to say when i created this survey , I saw the price of gas in the U.K. some places $10.00
a gallon |
| Melf |
There's a petrol station across the road from me, but it's two in the morning here. I'll check it out and do the maths tomorrow, find out what the price works out as. |
| JessicaWoman99 | | (reply to Melf) posted 24-Jun-2008 9:04pm |
> There's a petrol station across the road from me, but it's two in
> the morning here. I'll check it out and do the maths tomorrow, find
> out what the price works out as.
Wow your up late but yes do that and let survey central know ? |
| Melf |
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| JessicaWoman99 |
> Who YOU CALLING A BROAD????
> Due to the price of gas, I am wearing my shorts more often.
Oh you Cloudy broad "giggles" |
| JessicaWoman99 | | posted 24-Jun-2008 9:09pm |
Oh i am paying $3.99 a gallon out here in Colorado just under $4.00 |
| kirst |
Expand use of cars in HK? I don't think so... Maybe you're thinking of China---they have SO many more cars there now... |
| cloudhugger |
 haha |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to kirst) posted 26-Jun-2008 12:31am |
Yes I did actually. I only just now read that HK has some autonomy. Are they at all communist there? I didn't read in great enough detail to figure out how they are capitalist, yet under the umbrella of China, and what control China's government may have over them. |
| Kristal_Rose |
I'll take that you meant the air-conditioning then. |
| Galomorro | | (reply to Galomorro) posted 27-Jun-2008 11:39pm |
Today (27th) the bus went by a service station and I noticed the price for regular was $4.56. |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to Galomorro) posted 28-Jun-2008 4:04am |
Aren't you glad you saw that from a cozy distance?. |
| Galomorro |
Sure am. I'll take the crowded, bumpy, germy, slow ol' bus anytime! |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to Galomorro) posted 29-Jun-2008 8:16am |
I bicycle everywhere. ..about as quick as the bus and more liberating. |
| Galomorro |
Good for you! I used to do that long ago when I lived in Silverlake. I'm all for (regular, no-noise) bikes -- and those new scooters are cool too. Lots of people bicycle here and we do have some good bike lanes. When I'd ride my bike to work when I lived in L.A. I'd nearly get run down. Back then also L.A. didn't have their underground (which I've never been on) -- does it connect to many different neighborhoods now? |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to Galomorro) posted 29-Jun-2008 11:14pm |
It's gradually expanding all the time (to train routes we already had back in the 20's). In my walking tours of SF it looked like SF had less shoulder for biking than LA even. There are bike paths marked here which basically amount to room for people to open car doors. Are there bike paths there in places people would go for regular shopping and errands, and not just the leisure park ride sort of paths? |
| Galomorro |
Good to hear you guys have such good bike lanes! Maybe it looks like SF has less room because our streets tend to be narrower. Maybe the L.A. bike lanes weren't as good back then but now have improved from what I remember from 100 years ago . A lot of times I see bikers riding in front of the cars, cable cars, etc. here. I guess they have to be especially skilled here and physically fit to dodge the cars and also climb the hills. Does L.A. have a "Critical Mass" bicycle event each Friday like we do? They always warn on the news that drivers should "expect delays" at these times. |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to Galomorro) posted 30-Jun-2008 4:55am |
No, but we have yearly marathons where the boulevards are closed off. The last two mayors, Riordan and Villaraigosa, both ride in them, and the prior mayor commutes 20mi a couple time/wk.
I've been meaning to write in and suggest alternate vehicle lanes for bikes, electric scooters, small electric cars, and open cable-car like busses for boulevard mall shopping. Yeah, sidewalk busses and small cars are still something you wouldn't want to get hit by, but they'd know to expect anything in that lane, and it would be an incentive to get such vehicles with a safer open lane to use them. I've seen a few fryer diesel conversions in town. It's funny, you can tell if they're running on beef, chicken, or fish fryer oil, with an additional smell of burnt popcorn.
Bike traffic increases the closer you are to the beach here. 20-60 blocks inland I only pass another bicyclist every three to five blocks. At 3am I'm the only one out.
We had a disturbing motorcycle accident on the boulevard at 3am a week ago. Some gal pulled a left in front of him which totalled her front hood, fender, and bumper, and threw him 50 feet. Amazingly he only broke his toe. The disturbing part was her saying "Hopefully that will teach him not to ride at night". I wonder if that applies to pedestrians with no headlights at all, too. |
| Galomorro |
Good idea about that alternate vehicle lane! I actually like some of those tiny cars seen lately. |
| kcthedog |
I already live in paradise so I ain't gonna no where. |
| HMC35 |
It has affected my travel plans, actually. I was supposed to go to the beach, but then I had to take out a loan for school. The only money I have is so precious I can't even buy gas. Fo'real.
Bah humbug. |
