RE: How much does gas effect your hobby?
Let's see, here's some of the plans for the summer.
Go to Rend Lake this weekend. 450 miles round trip. Truck gets 11 mpg pulling the boat plusgas for the boat and generator.
Go to St Louis week after. 370 miles round trip. Pulling the boat again.
Go to KY lake the next weekend. 650 miles round trip. Again with the boat.
Go to Chicagoland weekend after that. 320 miles. Boat maybe. (I get about 9 mpg in the city)
Blah, blah, blah. Lots more driving all summer. Even headed to Chesapeake Bay to shoot stingrays... pulling the boat. Blah, blah, expensive, blah, blah.
I'm going to go broke, but I'll have lots of fish to eat. [:-][:-][:-]