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pocketpiececommems
pocketpiececommems Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭✭✭
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How has the price of gas affected your hunting? It is definately slowing me down. Our shopping trips and other little trips are fewer and further between which means that my hunting, if it happens, isn't as long.
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  • millennium
    millennium Posts: 3,305
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    No effect yet....I can still find enough "spending" money to pay the gas I use.
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  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Eventually... long road trips become short road trips.... Cheers, RickO
  • marym
    marym Posts: 713 ✭
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    The price of energy has definately affected my habits. I think twice before hopping in my car to go any distance. Now that the good weather is settling in, I'm hoping that my feet or bike will take me to more destinations than my car!
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  • goossen
    goossen Posts: 492 ✭✭
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    It looks like a worldwide problem... here in Paraguay the price is highly increased too! image

    I don't have a MD, but I used to take some trips to take pictures... now = short trips.
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  • DUBBA
    DUBBA Posts: 935
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    it is affecting me....instead of heading south to hit the beaches i try and stay local as much as i can...last week i had to pick my son up at school on the tandem cause the truck was on E ...i love riding my bike, but not in the 93 degree sun.....arrgh!.... i may trade the truck in for an economy something or other soon....drive/ ride safe....hh
    "see ya at the beach"
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  • Dockwalliper
    Dockwalliper Posts: 1,171 ✭✭✭
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    So far this year I've only hit very local spots. I don't see any "Detecting road trips" in my near future.
  • OAKSTAR
    OAKSTAR Posts: 8,770 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • tynetraveller2000
    tynetraveller2000 Posts: 49 ✭✭
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    Just paid 1.92.9 per litre for diesel here in the uk it's going up everyday, I try to use the car just for work purposes, not getting out as much as I'd like with the MD

  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Old thread...but fourteen years later, same issue.... just more expensive than the last cycle. I can see the price of gas limiting MD hunts, especially those beyond the yard or local park. I like to go find old cellar holes in the mountains, and that burns a fair amount of gas in my Jeep. Cheers, RickO

  • tynetraveller2000
    tynetraveller2000 Posts: 49 ✭✭
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    Makes me wonder if it's all a ploy to get us to go electric sooner than we'd like.

  • Bayard1908
    Bayard1908 Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭✭
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    I used to drive 100 or more miles when I would go detecting. I now use a small electric bike in conjunction with the local commuter train for long detecting trips. Riding the bike is almost as fun as detecting.

  • OAKSTAR
    OAKSTAR Posts: 8,770 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Eventually... long road trips become short road trips become no road trips!

    There is no limit to this man-made disaster that's happening before our eye!!

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  • Namvet69
    Namvet69 Posts: 9,424 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • GulfRasta
    GulfRasta Posts: 150 ✭✭✭
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    I drive a car that gets the same gas mileage as what I drove three decades ago.
    And now we act surprised?
    Ok then.

  • SoFlo
    SoFlo Posts: 565 ✭✭✭✭
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    @GulfRasta said:
    I drive a car that gets the same gas mileage as what I drove three decades ago.
    And now we act surprised?
    Ok then.

    I guess you can rationalize just about anything.

    After all these years my wife still thinks I'm sexy. Every time I walk by she says "What An Ass"

  • GulfRasta
    GulfRasta Posts: 150 ✭✭✭
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    @Mizzou. Missouri joined the SEC. They stepped up. Rationalized that. And look at them now. They are with the big boys.
    We gotta step up.
    We will.

  • SoFlo
    SoFlo Posts: 565 ✭✭✭✭
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    @GulfRasta, You understand of course that Missouri did that for the payout on televised games, not for the stiffer competition. So that actually is a good comparison.

    After all these years my wife still thinks I'm sexy. Every time I walk by she says "What An Ass"

  • GulfRasta
    GulfRasta Posts: 150 ✭✭✭
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    @Mizzou I like you. :)

  • SoFlo
    SoFlo Posts: 565 ✭✭✭✭
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    We're playing on different teams, but there's no reason we can't get along. Please don't suggest I buy a Tesla if I don't like the gas prices.

    After all these years my wife still thinks I'm sexy. Every time I walk by she says "What An Ass"

  • GulfRasta
    GulfRasta Posts: 150 ✭✭✭
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    Huh? You don't know what I think.

  • edwardjulio
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  • metalmeister
    metalmeister Posts: 4,633 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    5 Vehicles. 10 mpg to 35 mpg. Guess which one I drive most often? Yep. the 1.9L twin cammer.

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  • OAKSTAR
    OAKSTAR Posts: 8,770 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @OAKSTAR ... That is excellent customer service/relations.... :D Cheers, RickO

  • pocketpiececommems
    pocketpiececommems Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    No gas that day

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  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    It was $4.69 here yesterday.... Cheers, RickO

  • tynetraveller2000
    tynetraveller2000 Posts: 49 ✭✭
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    When you say $4.69 is that for a gallon? Pardon my ignorance.

  • tynetraveller2000
    tynetraveller2000 Posts: 49 ✭✭
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    @tynetraveller2000 said:
    When you say $4.69 is that for a gallon? Pardon my ignorance.

    It works out $2.44 a litre here☹

  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @tynetraveller2000 ... Yes, that is per U.S. gallon.... Cheers, RickO

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