Gas/Fuel Price and hunting plans

[Gulf of America]

Second kid just started daycare and we pay it with the same Costco visa as most of our gas. It's always a little eye-opening reading the price on the pump, but it fades quick and feels like a blip when the statement with $2500 in daycare comes.

 

[El Jason]

It won’t change my plans much. I’ll cut back on eating out at all, and buying coffee. I’m sure glad affordability is a hoax.

 

[noharleyyet]

3.69...87
4.39...91

 

[noharleyyet]

Second kid just started daycare and we pay it with the same Costco visa as most of our gas. It's always a little eye-opening reading the price on the pump, but it fades quick and feels like a blip when the statement with $2500 in daycare comes.

yes, yikes

 

[JLDemo]

Second kid just started daycare and we pay it with the same Costco visa as most of our gas. It's always a little eye-opening reading the price on the pump, but it fades quick and feels like a blip when the statement with $2500 in daycare comes.

Just wait until you make the last daycare payment. We just made our last one last month as the littlest starts Kindergarten. So much more money for Busch lattes and fuel.

 

[Irrelevant]

I think it would be interesting to do a poll on how much it would take before you cancelled a hunt due to gas prices. I'm with Togie it would cause a lot of other changes in my day to day before affecting my hunt.

 

[Song Dog 2224]

A wise man once said you’ll run out of health before you run out of money. Send it.

I always add in “youth”: you’ll run out of youth and health before you run out of money..

 

[Song Dog 2224]

I think a big thing you guys arent mentioning is who pays the credit card bill. If my wife did, this would be one stressful season coming at me. Luckily I do. Haha

Hahaha yes, same here… that would likely change my take on things

 

[Song Dog 2224]

Second kid just started daycare and we pay it with the same Costco visa as most of our gas. It's always a little eye-opening reading the price on the pump, but it fades quick and feels like a blip when the statement with $2500 in daycare comes.

Yeah our two just started Montessori school… same boat as you… stings a lot. But, it seems like a good investment in their future and development as humans, and isn’t forever.

 

[Nick87]

I’ll cut back on eating out at all, a

Yup.

 

[NoWiser]

Second kid just started daycare and we pay it with the same Costco visa as most of our gas. It's always a little eye-opening reading the price on the pump, but it fades quick and feels like a blip when the statement with $2500 in daycare comes.

All we pay for now for our two is before-school care to the tune of about $350/mth. Man, it’s sad to see them growing up so fast, but seeing childcare drop to almost nothing is such a relief. The last decade has been stressful.

 

[brymoore]

I think it would be interesting to do a poll on how much it would take before you cancelled a hunt due to gas prices. I'm with Togie it would cause a lot of other changes in my day to day before affecting my hunt.

I can handle $10 a gallon with a grimace. $20 a gallon will reduce my hunts.

 

[Northwoods]

I got priced out of most big game hunting a few years ago. I can afford it, but I would like to retire some day. Points, license fees, travel expenses, etc., all add up to more than I am willing to pay for admission. Not sure how that looks for the future of hunting when more people come to the same conclusion. Still buying elk points in Wyoming for some reason. Volleyball will be my priority for the next few years yet in the fall. I do have a fall muskie fishing trip planned for the middle of October that I am excited about.

 

[quarterhorse]

Lots of other changes will happen before my hunting plans change. If I was a young family man it would probably be a different story.

 

[MaddH]

I bet a large percentage of diesel truck owners never haul anything heavier than a black lab. mtmuley

But that’s some precious cargo

 

[Cammy]

I tend to justify things like this... I spent a SH!T ton of money every month on cigarettes and never blinked. Now that I have quit I say, "I am spending cigarette money". Can't imagine where I would be if I still smoked. LOL!

 

[Addicting]

$1250 a month.

That’s cheap around here.

 

[Addicting]

I can handle $10 a gallon with a grimace. $20 a gallon will reduce my hunts.

Near San Diego Diesel hit 9.99 last week. Pumps can’t go past that, the screens were not designed for 10 dollar fuel. You are safe for now.

 

[nrpate05]

It won't change my plans, but most of my hunting is pretty local - less than half hour to the trailhead. I did just get back from a pronghorn trip which was 175 miles each way pulling a camper getting 10mpg. The cost started to cross my mind with mid grade going for over $5/gallon. Clearly the current admin doesn't care about hunters.

 

[cgasner1]

Near San Diego Diesel hit 9.99 last week. Pumps can’t go past that, the screens were not designed for 10 dollar fuel. You are safe for now.

That’s what saved me in the Alaskan village this year I heard he wanted to charge 15 a gallon pump won’t do it