How has the incredible cost of gasoline/diesel affected your photography?

My photography? Not one bit!
How has the incredible cost of gasoline/diesel affected your photography?
I want to say it hasn't, because it really shouldn't, but it has a little bit. I live just outside of a large city and it happens to be one of my favorite places to go when I'm feeling adventurous, so of course a lot of my photos are taken there. It's just getting to be to expensive to drive around the city every weekend now :(
How has the incredible cost of gasoline/diesel affected your photography?
The biggest impact it has had is an indirect fashion:





A) More money to fill my tank and go to and from work, making me work more hours to effectively have the same checks I had before after gas, so less time to shoot, and less money to buy supplies online.





B) Higher costs in shipping. I've spent some decent cash lately buying a decent stockpile of Type 669 film and to test out Fuji's replacement for 669. For a comparable shipment earlier, the cost of shipping has gone up by a decent amount, too. Emulsion Transfers must feed.





C) Going either to drive to subjects, or to get objects for the emulsion transfers.





The first one is the biggest problem I've had - B%26amp;C are secondary concerns.
Reply:It affects my invoices to my clients.





They are now paying an additional $50 to all my day-rates and licensing fees. No one has complained. The increased energy costs are finding their way into my utilities as well.
Reply:It is about to open up new areas to me that I'd not consider before.





It was too expensive to drive to some parts of the city before, and my fear of heights made the highway overpasses (50-100 feet in the air), unuseable.





Now that I am going to get a bicycle and a trolley pass, much more of the city is accessible.