I can't decide whether to weep, wail and gnash my teeth over gas prices or be secretly glad that they will finally push us into some changes that are long overdue.

I calculate cost now, every time my vehicle, a '00 Toyota Tacoma 4-cylinder 4WD, leaves the dooryard. I had to give up some groups I play in because the cost to travel to rehearsals and concerts is just too great. It is inconvenient, but when I drive to Cambridge, the trip has to double for getting chicken poo out to the farm in Shaftsbury that composts it to grow vegetables, and for buying chicken food at Whitman's in North Bennington, that would otherwise be a 15-mile round trip. As it is, it is 40 or 50 mile round trip, depending whether I am attending a CCS Reunion Committee meeting at CCS or going on up 313 to where my saxophone ensemble meets. There are far fewer trips to Williamstown, MA, where I sell quail and chicken eggs and use the library at Williams College. Now maybe once a month instead of several times a week.

What differences are gas prices causing in your lives?

I find myself swearing more.

That is why I invested in the bike for fun and the cost of getting to work , out here I can drive that just about all the time no bad weather for the most part ,,,,lol

No longer driving 500 miles each week end (round trip) to our summer place in teh mountains.  Only going 1 or 2 times a month now.  Next year is retirement year for my husband so we can go up there and say a few weeks at a time.  Will come back to the city once in a while, to check on pool and mow yard if need be.  Perhaps my daughters family who lives nearby can fill in once in a while.

Staying out of ebay and half-price books.