High Gas Prices...Are You Making Changes Or Just Pumping As Usual?

The airline industry knows we will do more and more to get the cheap fare...heck in time, we'll be washing the windows, checking wipers, and helping change the oil to get a cheap seat. But with gas, it is high anywhere you go. So are you doing a better job of making your trips count, doing many things along the way? (As if brokers were nto already running a tight ship and not wasting steps right?) Have you bought a three cylinder Geo to use as the little shuttle to keep the Starship Enterprise docked until you have a large group showing? Are you meeting folks at the property rather than the usual see how they liked it and get to know them on the way to the showing routine you used the last three decades? In an age of drive thrus and want it right now, being thrifty with making each trip count is hard if you put folks off. Also, to invest in new technology, is it worth it in the short term? Are you waiting for the US government to make it manditory for better fuel ratings? Do you own a bike or thought of hitch hiking to showings, listings and events around your area? Seriously, here is a neat site for the skinny on gas prices in Maine...no doubt you have a state one where you live too right? Here's news on a new gas bill that has its share of critics and give you more insight on how the gas prices are arrived at and how they affect other sectors of your world! Gas cards...the ideal gift for those hard to buy for shoppers. Practical but not as much fun as a trip to Paris, or a new tie. Maybe you'll get a horse this christmas to gallop to those listing presentations. That's how they sold real estate years ago right? Dio you find yourself walking two blocks when before you hopped in and out of a running vehicle? Everyone is tightening up ..crusing their facility, looking for slack to have money left over for loved ones. Remember you New Year's resolution last year...to not over spend at christmas...hard to cut back because you started the habit of a out of control spending. This year you can blame the smaller scale sane spending pattern on gas prices. If we did not have much money, we would make better use of it. It would be precious and harder to let go of without a little research. Merry Christmas everyone!