Anyone canceling a hunting trip because of gas prices?

[bjk]

I don't even blink at it...you're talking a couple hundred bucks (give or take, which should be a small amount in comparison to the rest of the trip)...if you are stretched that thin, canceling might be a good idea anyway.

I don't get to do 2+ out of state trips a year, count yourself lucky.  I am doing one this year...gas isn't even a thought.  

End of this month...I don't care if gas goes to $10 a gallon...bears beware!

[BenBow]

Killed my hunting this year. Tough with wife on social security. Canceled my elk tag and cut short to 1 day my turkey season. Not sure if I'll get to hunt at all this fall. Not looking good. Even on local hunts gas costs me a hundred for a weekend.

[Missouri Sherpa]

I will drive over 6000 miles on hunting trips this year, 2 trips to Wyoming, a trip to Southwest Colorado and several day/weekend trips to Missouri and here in Iowa.  Most of those miles will be pulling a 24 ft horse trailer.  Figure fuel costs will be shared with only one or two other hunters and the cost of each hunters trip is a bargain compared to a paying for a plane ticket and a guided elk hunt.  There is no free lunch, you got to pay to play whether you are playing golf, bass fishing, bowling or hunting.

[Ray Hammond]

Knifey,
You know I love you like a brother...so I am not picking on you...but the Exxon thing...

What we need to remember is that they are also selling record amounts of gas, and their margins are the same - so if you are selling more gallons, and your costs are the same percentage because you increase the price to keep them the same, but the dollars are higher in absolute terms, so then the profits will be a new larger number.

I don't think there's any hocus pocus involved here...no collusion...just simple math and the additional turd in the toilet bowl of "speculators"...yes, that's right...commodities buyers who drive up the price of crude by 30 dollars a barrel "betting" that supplies will be cut, or a refinery will go down...another by-product of the now famous Hurricane Katrina..and our middle east troubles and lack of home-grown use of resources.