Instead of my wife and I going out in separate vehicles to do errands, we go in one vehicle. Instead of going daily to the local grocery store, we go 2 or 3 times.
As I noted on another thread starting in August a fishing friend and I have basically retired his boat. We use his smaller engine on my bigger boat on the local lake and my bigger motor on the local river. We plan our fishing trips better re tides and other factors.
Another fishing friend wanted to drive up to the American River for some halfpounder steelhead fly fishing a week ago Friday. I checked the River flows and they were really too high for that fishing. We postponed the trip, and a friend who went had a miserable time due to the high flows. We avoided the waste of a 150 mile round trip.
Normally, my wife and I go to the SW coast of Oregon later this month or the first part of October. That is an 8 to 10 hour drive each way. This year we will go to the mid N California coast, a 2-3 hour drive.
My wife and I are using the internet and phone for a lot of other shopping. My wife and some of the other women in her office now car pool to go shopping and do it once a week instead of a couple.
When enough Americans respond like your family, us and others, the demand for gas will drop and the price will come down.