Discretionary spending to continue travelling

I was very surprised at the number of views (over 680 in 36 hours) to my thread 58829.
Fuel prices are a threat to many who are traveling or planning to travel. I have been watching various web sites in recent weeks and most say they will modify their spending habits when traveling just to save.
In this fuel crisis there will be winners and losers. The winners will be fuel companies and those still fortunate to travel our country and enjoy what it has to offer. For many to enjoy traveling they will reduce their spending to offset the high fuel cost there by creating losers. In my case the trip around Australia will cost me about $1700 more ($17 per day). I intend to pick up this extra cost by adopting many ideas about to be used by others, example I will travel slower, stay at free camp sites once per week, not eat out as frequently, carry that jerry can to avoid high prices at remote road houses, avoid high priced tourist fees, (quoted $53 pp recently for a two hour boat ride, for two that’s $106 money now stays in my pocket) I will bargain harder, not buy souvenirs’, etc. etc. but enjoy myself at the same time. An old saying 10% profit on something is better than 100% of nothing.
It is called discretionary spending and for those who operate a business that services the likes of the above there are thousands of us that are coming your way (albeit thousands less than previous).