[NaughtiusMaximus]

Live in the West and am starting to feel the pinch. My plan: Take up more "at home" projects, dump things like health club memberships which require driving, eat at home instead of going out for dinner, plan an austere Christmas season, schedule errands wisely.

[steenkeenbadges]

This gas thing is a pile of puckey. The push will be on for those wimpy Prius "hybrid" cars - forgetting that plugging them in will take electricity (which is free, right?)

Then there'll be a tax on non-hybrid cars and we'll be right back where we started.

Start a home business, make extra bucks, and write the whole thing off. Then go to the gym and out to dinner when you damn well please.

[CommandoFrank]

eat at home instead of going out for dinner

Never, no NEVER will I cut out the 'eating out'.

My wife and I were standing in the 'easy finance' line at the gas station, discussing this very subject. Our conclusion is never, never stop eating out.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Sounds exactly like the type of confinement the ecomarxists are hoping for. They're regulations are adding quite a bit to the cost per gallon.

[Protagoras]

Live in the West and am starting to feel the pinch. My plan: Take up more "at home" projects, dump things like health club memberships which require driving, eat at home instead of going out for dinner, plan an austere Christmas season, schedule errands wisely.

Prices are always an excellent indicator for the allocation of resources. Fundamental economics prevail again.