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Don’t let lower gas prices stop you from driving frugally

October 28, 2008

I’m sure we all breathed a collective sigh of relief over the past few weeks as gas prices stopped climbing and then slowly started falling.

The Associated Press wrote an article explaining why the shift in oil prices has occurred. If you’re interested, you can read the story here.

While gas was at $4 a gallon, and even higher in some places, we did a good job of cutting back. For the first time in several decades, our gas consumption dropped this summer. Sure it was only by 1 percent, but that’s actually a really big decline when you’re talking about Americans reducing how much they drive.

I think we all need to make an effort to continue our frugal driving habits and to reduce how much we drive. Prince told us to party like it’s 1999, and I’m saying we all need to drive like it’s 1979. (That’s the second time there was a gas shortage in the 70s when there was talk of rationing gas like the government did in 1973.)

It’s very easy for us to slip back into old habits. Even though gas as dropped in price, we’re still in the middle of economic turbulent times. It’s important for all of us to maintain frugal lifestyles and not slip back into bad habits.

Every dollar you can save in gasoline could be put to better use somewhere else in your budget.

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