With the ever rising cost of gas have you how many shows have you not been able to attend due to the cost? And along the same lines if gas hits $3.25 a gallon or more (which is highly feasible it seems) and stays there how far would you be willing to travel to a show??

I will start off and say I have not missed any because of cost, they have all been because of not being able to get off work.  :roll:  :roll:  :roll:

 At $3.25 for regular that would most likely put the premium for the bug at about $3.50 a gallon. So I would not drive the car to any show (why start now anyway?) except for anything within 30 minutes.  LOL. I would have to say I would not want to venture over 2 hours away for shows at the $3.25 benchmark considering the MPG of hauling the car. I would have to adjust mileage traveled according to the increase in cost per gallon of gas. Any long trips that I really want to make (Fun Fest etc) would most likely result in cutting out a show or shows to secure the needed funds to make the trip. Just my take on the situation.

I don't even drive to work anymore, I just ride my bike.  :?

As soon as we get everything at the cabin finished up and we move in, I'll have three wooded acres down south of the triangle, WAY off the beaten path.  It's the perfect place to set up a small still.  When they were selling air-cooled Kombies in Brasil (they just went water-cooled eariler this year), they were set up to run on either gas or alcohol . . . so it should be a big deal to set up Homer to run on home brew.

I'm also in the market for an old diesel Rabbit to convert to run waste vegetable oil.

Until then, I'll just stay out of Wal-Mart for a week or two and I should have the funds to go to about any show I want to, as long as regular stays under $4 bucks.  If it goes over $4 bucks, I guess I'll have to liquidate my toy collection.  Oh, I forgot, I need to do that anyway.

I haven't missed anything that I have wanted to go to due to the price of gas.  I have to drive a car to go anywhere...and cars need fuel to go anywhere.  I have dropped off any toy collecting (it wasn't a bad habit to break anyway) and the words "credit cards" are not in my vocabulary anymore.
I would say that gas would have to get pretty darn high for me to decide not to go to an event that I want to go to.  
Not that I wouldn't complain the whole time I was filling up...

There has been a few shows that I would love to have went to but time has been more of a problem than anything.

2-day shows? If there's camping, that's definately a bonus. I try to make any 2-race weekends for the same reason: 2 races-1 tow (with the 13 MPG Dodge van).

Gas is part of the equation for not going to High Country this year. There were also time and work considerations, but gas may have just tipped the balance toward staying home.