Driving to WDW

[jeffn5631]

This morning on CNBC there was a report that this summer because of government regulations requiring MBTE be eliminated from gasoline and Ethanoyl be used in place of it, there is the possibility that there will not be a sufficient supply of Ethanoyl on hand to use in the manufacturing process for gasoline. This will probably cause the price of gas to go over $3 a gallon and also may create gas lines because of the shortage. If you were planning to drive to WDW for your vacation this summer, would this affect your plans? For us, even being about a hours drive awayfrom WDW, we would probably cut down one or two weekend trips per month and if there are gas lines, probably more than that. We are fortunate that Busch Gardens is about a 30 min. drive away and that will become our main destination point if there are big gas problems this summer. On Tampa tv stations, they have been reporting about big price increases coming this summer but haven't mentioned to much about the shortages yet that would cause gas lines.

J & J

 

[eliza61]

We are planning on driving down to Florida this August from the Philly, PA area. Gas is already at about $2.43 gal/unleaded regular in this area. We ball parked gas to be about $3-3.10/gallon when we decided on the trip so that won't affect us to much. Hopefully supply we still be available, I would hate to see the return of rationing, gas lines etc that I remember from the 70's (oops, I dating myself again). We only get to take a big vacation every other year or usually every 3 years, so we've been looking forward to this trip for a long time. Some thing really drastic would have to happen for us to cancel.

 

[lisamomof3]

Wow, I sure hope the gas prices don't go up too high. We have just decided to drive due to prices of airline tickets. I'm crossing all my fingers and toes hoping that at least by June the prices will be the same or lower.

 

[DMville]

This isn't to say it can't happen, but that scenario is reported and trumped up every spring. CNBC and there "experts" exist for one reason, to create headlines. They'd love such an event, so they could report on it and name it something like "Gas Shortage '06!!!".

While I agree prices may be higher than what they are now, unless something happens to greatly affect refining capabilities, I'd expect no worse than what you may have seen during the height of Katrina.

We're driving from the Midwest and an increase of $1 a gallon from here would be just about a $120 increase. That's not enough to stop us and driving (including gas, hotels, food) is still noticeably cheaper than any airfare I've been able to find for us.