Will it be "worth it" to go buy my new sports car and immediately put it in one of the local custom engine shops for some performance mods? For me, HELL YES. For people who are on a tight budget or for those namby-pamby, bed-wetting fruit-cakes that whine and bitch and moan constantly about gas prices even though they drive a prius, probably not. As someone above said, it's all relative. I play WoW to SAVE money (because the things I'd do for recreation if it wasn't gaming are exSPENsive). :P There's a guy in my neighborhood that spends about $2000/month on tires and engine parts for his drag racer. I don't think that's worth it but he does. That's just a different hobby and one he likes and I don't.

/c'est la vie