Anyone else notice...

[rayjay]

The effects of high fuel prices? Labor Day weekend and next to no traffic on a major road, three or four cars at the local ice cream stand, a restaurant that we normally have to wait in line at all but empty at 6pm? These are not good signs for whats to come :(

[ckadiddle]

Heck, didn't see anything like that here around Orlando.

[dwasson]

I dunno. I haven't been out.

[Petrograde]

Trafiic seems a bit lighter around here this weekend,.. heh! now that you mention it,.. I've only driven to, and from work for almost a month!

[jgc61sr2002]

Traffic on Long Island seems normal. Not too many are slowing down to save fuel. 75MPH in a 55 in the norm.

[Bluerauder]

The effects of high fuel prices? (
Haven't noticed any difference here in Northern Virginia. In fact, I went to the BK in Manassas yesterday afternoon for their weekly car cruise gathering and it seemed more cars were there than on my other visits. :D Maybe its the year end ... last hurrah !!! :dunno:

[Fastronald]

Things looked as busy as usual in the south west suburbs this morning.

[Mike Poore]

The effects of high fuel prices? Labor Day weekend and next to no traffic on a major road, three or four cars at the local ice cream stand, a restaurant that we normally have to wait in line at all but empty at 6pm? These are not good signs for whats to come :(

Yep, same here. We came to Snow Shoe, the roads were EMPTY on our way up, and the place we stop to eat at Huntingdon had many unoccupied tables at noon when we got there. (usually it's full of the church crowd by then). The parking lot at the big exit 22 truck stop on I-80 did not have a single truck in it, and traffic on I-80, at this time is almost non-exsistant.

I think the prevaling thought for the moment, at least in these parts, is: If you greedy bastages want to gouge us for your fuel, shove it up your ass, and I'll park mine.

It's a Mexican stand off, boys, who's gonna blink first. I know this; the independant truckers ain't gonna haul goods at a loss. It's a good a time as any to park the rigs and go on a little vacation.

Y'know what I'm laughing about? The futures trader/speculators who are gonna lose their asses next week when crude hits ~$55 a barrel.

[Smokie]

I went for my weekly dose of S/C MM. with the wife, her sister and husband like we do every Sunday, very, very light traffic. The restaurant were we usually eat was empty.

Yeap I noticed, I will be doing nothing tomorrow.

[Hotrauder]

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The effects of high fuel prices? Labor Day weekend and next to no traffic on a major road, three or four cars at the local ice cream stand, a restaurant that we normally have to wait in line at all but empty at 6pm? These are not good signs for whats to come :(
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We went out for awhile earlier, mostly to wake up the neighbors and blow some of the stink off:banned: To new here this time year to judge traffic levels but I am surprised at how light it was on 4 (Tampa to Orlando) and downtown was QUIET. i AM NOT SURE HOW i FEEL ABOUT IT...I am tempted to like it a lot for awhile. I think I will be less active myself.:shake:

[Mad1]

Yeah, I'm not sure who these gas prices will hurt more, retailers or restaurants. But, I'm sure a lot of folks are gonna feel the pinch and react by either cutting back in their spending where ever possible. (Generally, that's usually in "recreation and food.")

Retailers, restaurants, and shipping companies are in the unenviable position of having their operating costs skyrocket and being unsure if they will even be able to pass along this increase to their customers. I'm sure most will try to hold the line as much as possible, because they realize folks just won't be willing to pay for higher priced services or goods. If not, then spiraling price increases (inflation) will certainly signal the return of a recession.

Just watch, Alan Greenspan will continue to raise interest rates despite what Bush wants, because he sees as the only way to stave off a brutal inflationary cycle by cooling off economic demand.

Jeremy
Mad1

[lwblumjr]

Hi all,

Traffic around here is a little lighter than usual. The Static Cruise at Burger King was very lightly attended. I stopped by on the way to work Satruday night. Only a handful of gas stations have gas around here and it changes all the time. A local radio stations tries to get people to call in with stations that have received a fuel tanker and actually have gas. Those are few and far between and if you find gas you find long lines. People are starting to hoard a bit. A few people have been filling up 55 gallon drums while others waiting fuss. We only had serious damage from Hurricane Katrina along the beaches. I did not even have any damage at my house. Only lost electricity from 4:15 AM til 5:30 PM last Monday. That was a blessing. My dad had serious damage to 2 pole barns but that is all. Lots of people here are loading semi trailers with relief supplies to send to hurricane ravaged areas down the coast. My church has already sent 2 groups for hurricane relief. We sent 3 groups to help Tsunami victims. The collected relief supplies from our church leave out at 8:00 AM this morning. There are already quite a few "refugees" from the ravaged areas now staying in our area. The only good thing about Hurricane Katrina is that it didn't hit Pensacola. It looked like it might for a short while. I hope everything is going alright in your neck of the woods. Have a great Marauder day!

[rayjay]

We went to the local dirt track last night. Well attended but not packed for a special show with two extra feature classes of sprinters and fireworks. We arrived 1/2 hour late and still were able sit where we wanted.

[Mike Poore]

We went to the local dirt track last night. Well attended but not packed for a special show with two extra feature classes of sprinters and fireworks. We arrived 1/2 hour late and still were able sit where we wanted.
Well, the return trip home was a mirror of the trip up; very light traffic. The resturants that were open, had very few customers, especially the one where we cross PA RT75 which is always jammed. :cool:

[Dark_Knight7096]

Well I thought I had noticed that around here but no such luck, still as much traffic as ever on these roads. Even more in fact because I've noticed a very large increase in the number of PA plates over here, our gas prices are lower than they are right accross the bridge (usually) so i'm sure that accounts for about 99% of that. Starting on Wed I have to begin commuting to school again approx 300 miles a week on the NJTP and GSPW so once i get on those roads i'll let u know, but i'm sure traffic will be the same as always.

[Joe Walsh]

Haven't noticed any difference here in Northern Virginia. In fact, I went to the BK in Manassas yesterday afternoon for their weekly car cruise gathering and it seemed more cars were there than on my other visits. :D Maybe its the year end ... last hurrah !!! :dunno:

Same here in Baltimore...I took the Cobra out and burned some of the cheap high octane gas that was in the tank when I went over to a Cruise/Car show in Glen Burnie, Md.
The place was absolutely PACKED with every sort of Big Block--Hemi--Dyers Blown--Tripower--Dual Four--Nitrous--Tubbed--Shelby--Superbird--Corvette--SRT10 that you could imagine!
It looked like a mini-Woodward Dream Cruise!
No one seemed to concerned about refilling their tanks....

[ts-pa]

Just made the trip to O.C. MD. this weekend, traffic was heavy. Many did not seem to care about the gas consumption as they averaged 85mph on the PA turnpike. Coming back from the shore, traffic was so heavy in Milford DE, that we lost almost an hour traveling 6 miles.
Although Ocean City did seem to have more open parking spaces this year compared to last Labor Day weekend. Is this really a good indicator or is it just the younger people who might not be able to afford much just cutting back? I planned this trip before Katrina, and was going regardless of the prices.
As others have stated, just cut back to what you can handle & enjoy the ride! I personally will remember the gas stations who jacked the prices quickly & won't go there any more, especially if they are also slow in reducing the prices. Such greed is sickening:puke: . Seems that people will be "voting" in the same way as I've noticed that every BP station that had the highest prices, had the fewest customers. Every Hess & Wawa station we passed was packed!

[jabird56]

Went to the brother-in-laws for a family party yesterday in North Platte, NE. I-80 was busy for the 4 hour run coming and going. Took the Mariner for this run, 89 octane was 2.99 in North Platte and got 89 octane for 2.90 back here in the Omaha area (i.e Council Bluffs, IA) this afternoon.