Gas Has Gone Way Up (Knoxville, Clarksville: motel, motorhome, safe area)

[WOWAddict]

Originally Posted by beachbette

Suzanne, we've been looking at both routes.....but we were told that if we take the turnpike to 75 that the total amount of tolls would be $40....and since we are driving two vehicles that would be $80 - plus the rising cost of fuel for driving two vehicles 1100 miles! Hubby thought that the difference in going up 95 instead of Turnpike wouldn't be that much mileage wise, but would save alot on tolls!!

We are still open to changing the route though! I have decided to wait until the last week before I make hotel reservations and actually print out our route directions! (We're still living in the 'olden days' without a GPS!! - but it might be our next purchase!!)

The only reason we chose Titusville as a stopping point is because I tried to break the trip up into 350 miles per day!! I am open to any and all suggestions for better routes!!!

I would plug each route into Google and check the mileage. The feature where you can plan your route and then drag your route using different roads is great (sliced bread = google map feature).

Try this and drag around the routes just a few quick ones and didnt play close attention to the roads.
Knoxville, TN, United States of America - Google Maps

EDIT** didnt quite work the way I wanted. Wont take the link. Just click on get directions the type in key west.


1,035 mi – about 16 hours 30 mins Turnpike to 75

1,053 mi – about 16 hours 51 mins 95 to 26 or 40

1,086 mi – about 17 hours 25 mins 95 to savannah then 16 then to 75

Using this you can account your gas mileage vs the tolls.

I personally always take the turnpike to 75. I find the drive nicer and quicker. 95 the construction is so bad everywhere. While 75 is only really bad between Valdasta(sp)and Macon GA

[LauraC]

Originally Posted by beachbette

Laura....we won't be going through NC at all. Right now we are planning to head up I-95 from Homestead, FL and pick up I-10 (heading west) in Jacksonville, FL and then pick up I-75 (heading north) into Georgia and we'll just follow I-75 through Georgia and into TN all the way to Knoxville!

Oh good, because in my opinion a horrible stretch of road is I-40 right outside Asheville (east of Asheville) and it's not the amount of traffic as much as it is the highway itself and the tractor trailers.

[bebette]

Originally Posted by LauraC

Oh good, because in my opinion a horrible stretch of road is I-40 right outside Asheville (east of Asheville) and it's not the amount of traffic as much as it is the highway itself and the tractor trailers.

That is a scary stretch......but it is the one that we have to use many, many times when we go to visit anyone in my family!! I have learned to just nap while hubby drives through that stretch....

[stara6]

My brother tells me it's at 3.43 for regular in Connecticut (at the cheap station), and he has seen up to 3.49 at other stations. It's insane!

[josdegr50]

Looking at a gas pump today. Remember when the gallons went by faster than the dollars rolled over. Those were the days.

[Tinman313]

For those heading out of Florida I-95 and destination Eastern TN. I have been looking at alternative routes too save the time I-75 threw Atlanta. This route was given to me by a close friend. I stead of I-95N - I-10W Jax I-75 North. Look at I-95N - 26NW Columbia S.C to I-40. I ran the numbers and for me heading too Crossille it adds 70-75 miles but save over a hour coming out of FL.
And Map Quest now has daily fuel prices for that destination.......

[bebette]

Originally Posted by Tinman313

For those heading out of Florida I-95 and destination Eastern TN. I have been looking at alternative routes too save the time I-75 threw Atlanta. This route was given to me by a close friend. I stead of I-95N - I-10W Jax I-75 North. Look at I-95N - 26NW Columbia S.C to I-40. I ran the numbers and for me heading too Crossille it adds 70-75 miles but save over a hour coming out of FL.
And Map Quest now has daily fuel prices for that destination.......

Tinman, I ran the numbers for this route for us, and there is only about 10 miles difference between the two routes, but the route through SC also saves us time.....not to mention the fact that we won't have to deal with Atlanta on a Monday morning!! I have checked the overnite stops and we have decided that we are going to do the 95-26-40 route!! I'll let you know how the timing actually works out!! Thanks for the info!!!

[DRD]

Originally Posted by WOWAddict

Sorry everyone but I hope the price hits $6 a gallon or more. It will hurt but in the long run it will be good for us, its hurting me right now.

The price keeps going up it puts the pressure on the government to put incentives on alternative fuel. Forces us to be more fuel efficient and makes what alternatives that are out there cheaper. Those hybrids are not worth the extra few thousand you pay.

We need to stop paying these countries that want nothing more but see us blown up. No other commodity is controlled the way oil is. You think a farmer can go "hummm Im not making enough on milk, I am going to stop giving you so much milk." We would tell him where to go and buy something else till the market would adjust. The free market needs to set the price not OPEC.

Prices get cheaper all we do is use more.

Just wait until the milk farmer turns to the more lucrative corn crop, milk will be $10 a gallon, our breakfast cereal will be $8.00 a box and our bread will be $5.00 a loaf.

I seen corn on the cob yesterday at Walmart for .49 cents an ear!

The market will only adjust to the higher prices.

[Tinman313]

Motor Fuel Taxes

[heathdawn]

Yesterday gas was $3.19 and today at the same gas station it is $3.25. I'm glad I filled up yesterday in Orlando, FL.