How to deal with high gasoline prices...

[johno]

Someone posted then deleted to one of the SF Bay Area communities a long how to boycott the big oil companies to force them to lower prices.

I made the following simple response, but found the post to be deleted when I attempted to save the comment:
***Edit to add: Note: simple, off the cuff, not completely thought out.
***Edit corrected a couple typo and mis-statements.


Having just spend over 2 weeks driving in the UK, $3 a gallon is not bad.

Try paying 80-95p a liter. ~3.20-3.80 pounds a gallon at $1.5-1.8 to a pound.

We were paying $4.80-6.80 a gallon.

30-40 pounds or $45-70 a fill-up


An even better response, cut your gas usage.


Use alternate forms of transit.

Public Transit.

Bike to work.


Drive a vehicle that gets high mileage per unit of gas/petrol.

Hybrids

Motorcycles

Mopeds/Scooters

Electric vehicles.

Turbo diesels.


Don't or cut back on your commute.

Work from Home/Telecommute at least day, or few, a week.

Work a compressed schedule: 4-10s or 9-80s
4 days a week-10 hours a day, 9 days per 2 weeks-9 hours a day

Change your schedule so you're not driving during rush hour.
Rush hour driving burns more fuel.

Comments

[galtine1.livejournal.com]

In California, carpooling works if you aren't going to stray from your route very much to get the other people AND they work with you or in the same area.

I wish hubby and I could carpool. We own two Hybrids (Honda Civic and Ford Escape 4WD). He has the longer commute, so he drives the better one (Civic). If San Diego and CalTrans had been smart, there would have been more east-west high traffic routes put in years ago and we'd be carpooling on the days when neither of us has early/late commitments. But working nearly 40 minutes apart just doesn't make it worth the effort.

Now, we both have managers above us who live near us that we could carpool with, but that could be risky as these managers have hours that are different than either of ours (Jim works a late 10-6p shift/the manager is early. I work 8:30-5p and the manager is in by 7!).

And I won't even get on the topic of public transportation in this county.

[jbriggs.livejournal.com]

And should be better now, having put on 4 new tires(tyres) this morning.