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Will Gas prices stop you from going to bigger show's and if so, will you go to local show's?

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Will still find a way to attend races. Look for ways to cut back and save $$$$ car pool less smokes, beer,coffee and other things but NOT RACING.

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If the air fares haven't done it, the gas prices aren't going to.

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Gas prices will effect the # of races as well as USAC's $25. price tag will find myself @ more weekly shows and places like Peru--good cheap racing.

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What is it about the gas prices in Indiana? We try every way possible to avoid filling up on our trips there by stopping in Kentucky but we eventually have to fuel up with gas that is 30 or 40 cents higher than anywhere else we travel. Having said that, midget week here we come!

no one seems interested in car pooling and while I have no problem with $25 tickets/ gas at 4 bucks a gal will hurt midget week big time! i'll plan on attending my home track (and what ever else I can, if there's a low, or zero percent chance of rain/ but truth be known, usac and at least one track I can think of do not show much interest in getting shows in once your there and they have your $$$$!) so I would like to hear from some of the promoters and from usac this year, as to whether they will give it their all to get shows in, or just toss up their hands and say sorry Charlie over a ten or fifteen minute rain for the midget and sprint weeks? my thoughts are/ these are two very special weeks with fans and race teams coming in from all over to support these events, fans and race teams who deserve the extra effort from both usac and the promoters! once we're there, we will sit and tailgate/ or work to make our cars faster for however long it takes, what else do we have to do? I remember the early days of the ohio sprint speedweeks (the original of these extravaganzas) and I remember some rain delays and some rather late nights of racing, but I don't remember a single rainout. they felt that these events were special and that they should be treated as something special, I see no reason why usac and the Indiana promoters cannot adopt that sort of spirit! I know that track mngmnt at Lawrenceburg will give it their all to get these shows in, but how bout the rest of yinz?

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Started that last year with limited traveling. Even if my 2 brothers gave me 10 bucks each just to go to Eldora thats only 5 gallons of gas. The only time they go to Limaland or Waynesfield is for the All Stars or WOO & thats all coming up in the near future.

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In no way shape or form am I condoning gas being as ridiculous as it is, I won't be satisfied until gas is below $2.00 a gallon. But do some math on this one.

Gas last week in Richmond was $3.99 a gallon before it went to $4.25. I filled up my 12 gallon tank for basically $47.88. Even with gas going up to the really stupid amount, it only costs $4 dollars more to fill up.

Yeah, it sucks, but put things into perspective, and if you stay home based on principal, that's fine, I understand, but if it takes you two hours to get to Gas City or Kokomo, it's literally only costing you a couple dollars more per trip. Pack some PB&J and go watch Midget Week!

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Paid 3.75 for diesel in Frankfort in. yesterday .

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I have been trying to keep to the tracks closest to me so far this year, THAT, TSS and CCS. Every other track is at least a 2 hour drive one way. Spending that much on gas each weekend is just not going to happen. With the prices going even higher, it will probably stay that way. On a side note, I went to Missouri this past weekend to register my kid at college. The gas prices in Western illinois and Missouri varied from $3.44 to $3.60.

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I;m not sure what track you;re talking about I attend just about every track in Indiana that host sprint cars and see every promoter bust his a$$ to get shows in if storms are close. Only track have seen you talk about is Lawrenceburg and Dave runs a dam good show so do the others Before bad mouthing other tracks you should get out and see them

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I will say it will effect me taking anymore risky *Due to weather* trips to say like KOKOMO which was a 90 dollar hit and no racing. I know, Not much by teams cost but, That sucked and was basically a full day for nothing. It is what it is

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I've switched to an electric vehicle.:3:

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Gas prices are just what they are..I still have to put gas in my truck driving back and forth to Muncie for work..but i am def having to budget myself a lot more than i have in the past..working at 2 tracks really helps me out when we race..but I will probably only hit gas city, montpelier, kokomo from here on out..maybe throw in a bloomington when gas city doesnt run..I had hoped to hit a few sprint week shows but with gas as high as it is and 25 to get in the weather will have to be perfect to make those kinds of drives..Hopefully they start to go down before sprint week :)

TyLeR

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Gas prices are pretty crazy to think about Indiana has the fourth highest prices in the nation! Was in Nashville this past Saturday (Opry Matinee & Grand Ole Opry shows) and it was 3.25 a gallon. With gas prices as high as they are, if I have free time to get to a race if my fiance isn't free (like this weekend when she works) even driving to LPS is a decision that is tough to make when I average 15mpg. Though this past weekend at the Opry and Opry Matinee was really cool. Won't be my last Opry show I go to.

perhaps you didn't follow the usac sprint week shows last year mr. George/ and yes i'm confident that dave will do all he can to assure us a race at Lawrenceburg come sat nite/ but all of the other tracks are two hours, or more away for me and due to health problems and this crappy economy, I haven't been so damn broke since college, so i'm not interested in making a two plus hour one way trip, pay an entrance fee, incur motel expenses, only to experience a ten minute rain and have usac, and or the promoter call the race rather than running the track in and going racing! I cannot afford to risk supporting that kind of lack of commitment!

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Chicago Spot prices declined 20 cents yesterday. The Exxon Joliet refinery returned to normal operations this week. Also the BP Whiting, IN refinery should be up and running toward the end of June. They will operate on almost twice the capacity as Joliet.

Hopefully $4 gas will be just a bad memory by Sprint Week.

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I filled up a couple of miles from Susquehanna Sunday night for $3.35 a gallon.

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I agree, I hate to leave $3.31 I payed at Sam's club last week to travel to Indiana for sprint week to $4.00. Good thing I get bonus check June 30th so I can make the trip for the first time.

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Gas prices at some spots in Indy down to 3.60 this morning

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Up here in the grant county area they are still hovering right around 4.07 a gallon..I know i read last week we were the highest gas prices in the state..

Tyler

Just drove past a BP here at the Ohio state university in columbus, ohio and their sign now says $4.22 for reg..... I thought the refineries opened back up?...... Wow!

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