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Originally Posted by AGDee
The one on the corner was up to $4.25 this morning. I ended up driving 40 miles this weekend just taking kids to their friends houses, picking them up, etc.
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I grew up in a city with decent public transporation, so I always took the bus. Once I got to highschool and some people had vehicles we'd always try to support the gas costs of the driver. Bagels and coffee was a usual winner in the am (but that meant we had to leave earlier), but it could be an interesting math and geography lesson for your kids if you had maps, mileage, cost per gallon etc. and worked out how much you spend on
them and their trips and how if as a family you worked out ways to cut down on that, money could be spent on something else (like a trip to an amusement park or some kind of fun trip?). I know once I got my license I had to pay for gas, and luckily I had a job, and they covered insurance since I had good grades and got them a discount.