The Trout Underground Fly Fishing Blog » gas prices http://troutunderground.com Fly Fishing's Fun, Independent Voice : Tom Chandler's Fly Fishing Life : Fly Rods are the Measure of Life Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Interactive Underground: We Ask You Again if Gas Prices Have Changed Your Fly Fishing Plans http://troutunderground.com/2008/07/the-interactive-underground-we-ask-you-again-if-gas-prices-have-changed-your-fly-fishing-plans/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-interactive-underground-we-ask-you-again-if-gas-prices-have-changed-your-fly-fishing-plans http://troutunderground.com/2008/07/the-interactive-underground-we-ask-you-again-if-gas-prices-have-changed-your-fly-fishing-plans/#comments Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:37:35 +0000 Tom Chandler http://tomchandler.name/?p=1753 Way back in March, we ran a poll about gas prices, which at that point hadn’t come anywhere near $4/gallon for most of you. The results?

Gas price polling data

Now most of the nation is paying  better than $4/gallon, and on several occasions I paid closer to $5 on my recently concluded Montana trip, where the difference in gas prices between the start and finish suggested I’d squandered most of our nation’s Strategic Reserve right there on the road.

As Garisson Keillor points out in a brilliant Salon opinion piece, 86% of the American public now believes we’ll see $5/gallon gas this year.

Contrast that with a year ago – when most thought $3/gallon gas was just a price spike – and we’ve got the Underground’s current poll question:

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Have at it Undergrounders. And of course, if you’re coping in some unusual way, or just have something say, please do so in the comments section.
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