WTGHookshot posted...
Mind me asking where you live?
Also, why $80 a week? Let's say gas was $5 per gallon when gas prices were high. At 28 mpg on average, you would have had to have been driving 448 miles every single week to spend $80 in gas a week. That's a lot of miles. That's pretty much a round trip of NYC to Washington, DC. Even if we bump it up to $10 per gallon, at 28 mpg, that's still 224 miles a week. That just seems like an excessive amount of driving per week, from my perspective, and is more of a lifestyle choice, I believe.
I live in Los Angeles, so our peak was a little over $6 per gallon. My commute to work was about 170-180 miles per week, plus another 5-10 miles per day going to lunch. So let's average that and say 212 miles per week. I was also going out on multiple dates per week, and I tried to be open minded about distance, so that added a lot of miles some weeks. The furthest date I had was about 112 miles there and back. Another one was about 80 miles round trip.
I'm not saying I hit $80 constantly, but I definitely reached that a few times. It's much lower now though. My girlfriend lives 23 miles away and sometimes she drives, sometimes I drive.