Me, too. I often carpool anyway, or walk, and did so before prices went up.
**Absolutely! I may be the slowest car in the slow lane of Rt 78, but I do get the best mileage…
…that I can.***
I’ve never really changed my driving habits because of the price of gas, regardless of whether it’s high or low. And it’s not like I’m wealthy, in fact, I’m pretty poor, but you do what you gotta do. 'Round here public transport is pretty awful so if I need to go somewhere, I drive.
I do not care about the price of gas. It is wrong to waste it or burn more than you should. It is a pollutant.
My commute is about ten miles in the opposite direction of rush hour traffic - I’m an urbanite working in the 'burbs.
About eight miles of my trip is over Interstates or freeways. I do the same thing I’ve always done - right or second-to-right lane, depending on exit or entrance ramp traffic, between 55 and 65 mph.
It’s been years since I had the kind of job where it made a difference whether I showed up at 8:00 or 8:05. Being salaried rules.
I used to have one co-worker who got a speeding ticket for doing like 85 in a 55, On. His. Way. To. Work. We were both in the same kind of position, and once he started bitching about getting the ticket, I gave him a metric asston of grief about it.
“I wanted to get to work by 9:00,” he whined.
“Then get to work at 9:20 and leave at six,” I said, “It’s not like you’re punching in. Nobody gives a shit. Dumbass.”
“Well, that cop was a fucker…” he mewes…
“No, you’re the fucker. How often do you stay late to finish some emergency project? How many times have you been on midnight crisis conference calls? Our boss is in meetings nine hours a day, except for when he blows out four hours early to play golf. Do you think he’s actually paying attention to what time you show up every morning? As long as the shit gets done, he doesn’t care.”
“You’re just a slacker.”
“I’d rather be a slacker paying thirty bucks a month for car insurance than a sucker with a $250 speeding ticket and points on my license.”
Nope.
My mountain bike burned with the garage, so I’m not biking in these days. Anyway, I have a self-imposed cutoff of biking at 20F. It hasn’t been 20F in the mornings up here in Minnesota for a a few weeks. But still, all the insurance paperwork and BS that I have to deal with looks like I won’t be getting a replacement mountain bike until close to spring. On the plus side, the truck I bought to replace the burnt out one gets better mileage. On the negative side, it is still a truck (A bigger one at that! But it gets better mileage! Wee! I drive a gas pig!) But damn if I don’t miss biking in.
The fact that I have to now build a garage on top of other projects further puts off the day I’ll no longer have to have a pickup. But I am going to run 220 and make the garage 4 feet wider in anticipation of buying a plug in electric vehicle. So hopefully I’ll be able to have an electric vehicle and still have the pickup for only when I need it.
My green plans are long term. But at the moment, I’m going backwards. But the garage fire has actually put me in a position to get serious about it with little extra expense. But holy hell, the amount of shit a garage fire put into the atmosphere puts me far into the NOT column of green for this year. But the price of gas changes nothing.
I own John Deeres, of course I drive green! 
Actually I AM trying to keep decent driving habits, though I tend to forget from time to time. My worst habit is NOT combining trips or just plain forgetting and having to go back!
Well, I didn’t really change anything when gas got pricey, so there was no ‘changing back’ when it got cheaper again. But I just got my truck inspected a couple days ago, and my mechanic was laughing about the fact that his computer said I’d put 5300 miles on it since the last inspection, in 2006. So with that and the couple hundred miles each on a couple ‘fun cars’ annually, I’ve racked up a total of about 3000 miles a year. It would be difficult to cut back more, without just abandoning driving altogether.
I haven’t changed my driving habits based on petrol prices much (I still have to get to work); but now petrol has come down in price I’m tempted to go out and buy a Hot Pink colour 1967 Cadillac El Dorado Convertible with whaleskin hubcaps, an all-leather cow interior and big brown baby seal eyes for headlights. Then I can drive around in it getting 1mpg whilst smoking a Cuban cigar, eating the biggest and most extravagant hamburger I can find (from a non-biodegradable styrofoam container which I can then carelessly discard, no less!) and giving the finger to Greenies. 
A, S, S, H, O, L,E! Everybody! A, S,S, H, O, L,E!
But seriously folks, now that fuel has come down in price I’m just saving the difference. There’s always bills that need paying but with fuel at under $1/litre at the moment its nice to get more litres of petrol than dollars spent for a change.
Maybe the price of movie tickets and concessions will come down and I can afford to go to the movies too? 
True as this may be, I confess it wasn’t until I felt the pinch of over $1/l to make me polish my economy driving skills. Now that gas is cheap again, I am trying to keep those skills in use to be kinder to Mother Earth.
Hmmm, yes and no.
When I moved, I made a short commute a priority. I used to drive 70 miles round trip 5 days a week and that got old real quick. The sharp increase in the price of gas was an annoyance. I just hated spending 2 hours a day in the car. Plus, I didn’t like racking up miles on my car even though they were freeway miles.
Now, I work 4 days a week and have a 10 minute or so commute.
False. Gasoline itself is not a pollutant, unless it is disposed of improperly.
Like burning it in a car.
I tried everything possible to save gas when it was 25 cents a gallon. Why would I stop now?
No, I didn’t change my driving habits then or now based on the price of gas.
I don’t drive around just for the hell of it ever, but drive when and where I need to regardless.
Depending on my destination, I either drive, take mass transit, walk, or bike.
I prefer to do anything but drive, but that’s not always possible or practical. (sorry, but if I have a choice between leaving home an hour and a half before work to ride the bus or leaving 15 minutes before to drive, guess which one I’m doing?)
If I’m working or going downtown, I always take the train…no hassles, no parking costs, so much easier and cheaper.
I will give up time to bike if I can, but unless I happen to be headed somewhere within 5 miles or so, nah. (I spent 5 yrs commuting by bike 10 miles a day, 5 days a week, plus trips here and there as well…would love to be able to do it again, but it depends on location and distance; I had a great route then)
Tautological. Proper disposal methods are those which don’t pollute, so nothing is a pollutant if it’s being disposed of properly.
I’ve had my “new” car for just over a year. Traded in a Volvo for a Saturn ION and I love it. I now get gas about once every two weeks instead of once every 3-4 days, unless of course I go on a trip. Then I loves me some 35 mpg highway miles.
the price of gasoline has gone down
the cost of gasoline is unchanged, so yeah, I’m still driving green