At what price is your job not worth the trip?

[Jumpem]

Even at your highest $30 per gallon you still have to go to work.

 

[Imp]

Where's the public transit/ I don't drive option?

My work use to have free parking, but they started charging $115/month a few weeks back. Place went apeshit over that and people were having rallies about how a "benefit" was being taken away...

I mean, it's kind of a bait and switch, but apparently the idea has been floating around for over a decade. And I'm sorry you chose to live 100 km away from work in "car + all associated fees essential" areas, mainly so you could save money on a house...

Ya, people stopped bitching after they started charging for it. No one quit, as far as I know. Life goes on...

 

[Red Squirrel]

At like 30+. A galon will easily get me to work for a week.

I would definitely find alternative travel methods when doing groceries, home depot runs etc... And I would make a lunch instead of going home for lunch.

Gas is already over $5/gal here and has been over $3/gal since 9/11. Actually after 9/11 when it started going up way faster it was funny as our gas had never hit over a dollar per litre before. Lot of the gas station signs only had 2 digits so they had to rig a 1. Now all the signs have been upgraded since then as we have not seen it go under a buck since and probably will never see that again. It's at 1.45ish now. That's 5.5 per gal.

Americans don't realize how cheap their gas is compared to the rest of the world. We don't even have it as bad as other countries either.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Even at your highest $30 per gallon you still have to go to work.

This. And the oil industry knows it.

They could charge 1000 bucks per gallon overnight if they wanted to. We are slaves to their arbitrary decided prices until we get off fossil fuels.

 

[Fingolfin269]

$30+ I live close to work. Will never allow myself to live more than 15 miles away.

 

[Glitchny]

Never really. I can see work from where I'm sitting now, it's about a 5-10min walk from my apt.

 

[SpunkyJones]

At $6ish I'd probably start to work from home a couple of days per week. My job is about 50 miles away.

 

[magomago]

At like 30+. A galon will easily get me to work for a week.

I would definitely find alternative travel methods when doing groceries, home depot runs etc... And I would make a lunch instead of going home for lunch.

Gas is already over $5/gal here and has been over $3/gal since 9/11. Actually after 9/11 when it started going up way faster it was funny as our gas had never hit over a dollar per litre before. Lot of the gas station signs only had 2 digits so they had to rig a 1. Now all the signs have been upgraded since then as we have not seen it go under a buck since and probably will never see that again. It's at 1.45ish now. That's 5.5 per gal.

Americans don't realize how cheap their gas is compared to the rest of the world. We don't even have it as bad as other countries either.

Yeah well in SoCal we aren't that far off: 4.50/gallon

I've already been riding my bike more often. I've been trying todo so more frequently in general, but the rain and cold snaps are just killing me. Its getting a lot better though - I expect within a few weeks not to be driving at all...with the way the freeways are my choice is 30 minutes on a bike, or 25 minutes in a car lol

 

[rudder]

I can always ride the bus (for freeeeeeeeeeeee) or do 95% of my job from home... so it would have to get to like $100/gallon before I quit.

 

[child of wonder]

Work reimburses me for any mileage beyond what it would take for me to get to the office. Since the office is in the SW corner of the Twin Cities and I'm even further SW out from there, pretty much anywhere equals mileage money for me.

As gas prices go up, so does the amount I'm reimbursed for mileage. My 2007 Civic is paid for and gets 35 mpg so I'm in good shape.

 

[Paladin3]

I work with my wife in the store she owns about 3/4 miles from our home. We still walk, ride bikes or take the city bus in the summer if we don't have a load of products to take with us.

But we are in a small city that is about 50 miles from the nearest population center. I don't drive down there unless it's absolutely unavoidable, like maybe twice in the last year.

I also coach little league girl's softball in the spring and when gas prices went up last year I had a lot of parents complain about the cost of traveling to away games. We've only got one other team in town, otherwise it's at least 30 minutes on country roads to an away game. One team we play once a season is 90 minutes from us across the state line. If gas gets too expensive we might have to stop traveling.

I really like living out in the country, but not if I had to commute into the city at what gas prices are supposedly going to. I think worry is all hype and bullshit, though, so when gas goes to $4.50 we will feel lucky it didn't go to $10 or $20.

Edit: I voted "work from home" because I might as well with work less than a mile away.

 

[xSauronx]

I don't pay for gas

me, either. having a company car and gas card right now is FUCKING GREAT.

id hate to look for another job right now. the last job was costing me a couple hundred a month in fuel costs and that was before christmas. i *might* fill my car twice a month right now.

 

[Cerb]

If a couple of tens of dollars in gas will break you, maybe you should be rethinking your living/financial arranges anyway.

$1/gal can be $100+/mo for many suburbanites. The cost of car that gets better mileage can easily eat up the savings, too, unless you drive a big truck or SUV.

 

[Colt45]

I don't live terribly far from work, so if the price of gas was high enough to make that a losing proposition... there would be... mass social upheaval.

Over five bucks a gallon here, probably spend... well, it depends which car I drive, the season, etc, but hm... probably $120/mo on the low side.

 

[crownjules]

I'm < 5 miles from work right now and my car gets ~30mpg and is a 12g tank. So if I didn't have to do any other driving I could go about a month before needing to fill up. Like Colt, there'd be far greater problems before gas got to the point where getting to work would cost too much for me.

 

[Doppel]

It would still go to work at $30/gallon, so none of the answers worked for me. I spend around a gallon going to work each day, maybe a touch less.

 

[Imp]

At $30/gallon, management would probably start feeling the pressure to let people start working from home - that or increase wages. People would probably start relocating closer to work, or work closer to people anyways (might jack up rent/home prices). Also, unless the price goes up instantaneously because of some big thing, we'll hopefully be moved over to a new fuel or using super energy efficient cars. Shit will solve itself?

 

[PrinceofWands]

Mostly work from home, and seldom drive anywhere. It would have to get to $20+ per gallon before it would really start impacting me (and this as someone who often doesn't break $10,000/yr).

 

[biostud]

The price just hit $9.5 / gallon in Denmark, but since I don't own a car I don't really care.

 

[Leros]

At $30/gallon, management would probably start feeling the pressure to let people start working from home - that or increase wages. People would probably start relocating closer to work, or work closer to people anyways (might jack up rent/home prices). Also, unless the price goes up instantaneously because of some big thing, we'll hopefully be moved over to a new fuel or using super energy efficient cars. Shit will solve itself?

I would think the company would start paying for gas for work travel.

 

[ultimatebob]

I have a long assed commute to work, and so does my wife.

I voted $9 a gallon. That said, electric cars would actually start making economic sense at that point as well.

 

[Savij]

Not exactly shocking that most people here keep working well past the upper end of the scale. It is pretty interesting that nearly 20% of AT, a group that is probably better educated, higher paid, and more flexible than the general population, is out by $10/gallon.

Based on those results, it seems to me like we are only one small price shock (Iran?) from seeing longer checkout lines at grocery stores and other things that impact our daily lives.

 

[Doppel]

Not exactly shocking that most people here keep working well past the upper end of the scale. It is pretty interesting that nearly 20% of AT, a group that is probably better educated, higher paid, and more flexible than the general population, is out by $10/gallon.

Based on those results, it seems to me like we are only one small price shock (Iran?) from seeing longer checkout lines at grocery stores and other things that impact our daily lives.

Don't forget a lot of people here are young, working low-wage jobs primarily to spend at movie theaters and at itunes. For such people the cost of travel to work could be meaningful at an elevated price per gallon. For the majority of adults they'll continue to drive to work damn near irrespective of what the cost of gas is because it's still much less than they make.

 

[JimmiG]

Gas is already ~$8.40 a US gallon here.

I take the bus for my 2x90 km commute (2x56 miles), and it costs $180/month.

 

[Leros]

Gas is already ~$8.40 a US gallon here.

I take the bus for my 2x90 km commute (2x56 miles), and it costs $180/month.

I wish I had public transport as an option. Too many cities in the US were designed for cars.