Does $4/gal. gas affect your dating?

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Registered: 11-29-2006
Does $4/gal. gas affect your dating?
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Wed, 04-09-2008 - 1:25pm

Gas Prices Could Peak at $4 This Summer (MSNBC)


Retail gas prices could climb as high as $4 a gallon this summer, but prices at such lofty levels will make many Americans think twice about hitting the road this summer, the Energy Department say. High prices and a weak economy are expected to cut demand for gasoline by about 0.4 percent during the peak summer driving season, the department’s Energy Information Administration said in a monthly report on petroleum supplies and demand. Overall consumption of petroleum products will drop by 90,000 barrels a day this year. Previously, the EIA had projected petroleum consumption would rise by 40,000 barrels a day.


Do the increasing gas prices affect your dating life?

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Registered: 11-17-2007
Wed, 04-09-2008 - 2:33pm
The better question should be why is that when the cost of a gallon of gas goes up a nickel or a dime or even a buck, people start whining at "evil" oil companies and asking inane questions like 'will you do less of X or more of Y because of gas prices', despite the fact that a significant portion of the cost of gasoline are taxes levied by the govt on the people that the govt will *under no circumstances* offer to relinquish even temporarily to provide relief to the people, AND YET, when college tuition rises at astronomical rates with colleges *gouging* students and their parents of their hard earned money, the ethics of college tuition is never questioned and the only solution offered by a certain political party is how to make *loans* more affordable, AND ALSO, why healthcare is the only industry in our country where the cost of the product (healthcare) has nothing whatsoever to do with the customer's ability to pay, unlike every other.



Sigh... I of course know the answers. It's only a rhetorical question..


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Edited 4/9/2008 2:50 pm ET by hillaryh8er
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Wed, 04-09-2008 - 3:06pm

I'll try to keep my response pertinent and avoid a political debate on a non-debate board.


Yes - I think it will affect my dating. I won't consider LDR's - more than a 30 minute drive will be too much.


Will prefer to keep date events close to home - luckily there's no shortage of fun things to do in my area.


Beyond dating - it's going to impact my social life overall. Not as many trips to RI to visit my son, or to VA to visit friends.


Not nearly as many horse shows, and certainly not the long distance ones we had planned on. Sigh. So much for the Vermont Summer Festival.


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Registered: 08-16-2005
Wed, 04-09-2008 - 3:15pm

If I were dating someone I'm sure it would however I'm not so I guess I'm free and clear there. LOL


I'm desperately trying to find a job closer to home because I have a two hour commute everyday so I'd like to shorten that because it's rough on the gas tank right now as it is and I have a little corrolla.


As it is right now I try not to go anywhere on the weekends because I am cheap and don't want to spend any money. I only go anywhere during payday weekends. LOL So I'm sure that will stay the same if prices keep going up.

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Registered: 07-13-2007
Wed, 04-09-2008 - 3:29pm

Do the increasing gas prices affect your dating life?


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Just food for thought. When a woman is broke, she still has a dating life if the men are paying . ..


If a man is broke, he is staying home . . ..


I think if nothing else, fuel factors into distance and frequency, and hits lower income respondents far harder than those in higher income brackets. I almost asked for a phone number this weekend, then I thought of the 6 grand I owe on the 15th, and how much I will have left . .and decided not to bother. I am not sure she would have wanted to go out with me, it did however "affect" me asking. (-:

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Registered: 11-29-2006
Wed, 04-09-2008 - 3:33pm

Yeah, higher gas prices do affect trips, for sure - we were set to drive to a neighboring state this summer for

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Registered: 11-29-2006
Wed, 04-09-2008 - 3:38pm

Yeah, I should've added that in there, too - single, dating, attached, etc., we're all of us affected in one way or another.


You have a

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Registered: 11-29-2006
Wed, 04-09-2008 - 3:43pm

LOL! I wish I had known that back in my single days. The only time I didn't pay anything was when I was dating a much older man who wouldn't let me SEE the bill, much less PAY it. Every other guy I dated was the type to go: "Okay, so you had X and

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Registered: 07-13-2007
Wed, 04-09-2008 - 4:29pm

I'd have to weigh in factors like the status of my bank account that weekend, the cost of whatever we planned to do, etc., and that could definitely

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Registered: 11-29-2006
Wed, 04-09-2008 - 4:36pm

LOL, there's a reason I live where I live - cost of living. ;)


But to answer your Q, I could barely afford dinner and a movie back in my single days, and gas was

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Registered: 01-26-2006
Wed, 04-09-2008 - 4:49pm
Not really.

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