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

[the-fae-within.livejournal.com]

Luckily, the house we are buying is just a mile (one way) from the husband's work. We plan on getting a motorcyle for him to drive to work. We dont take many trips and the only time we really go out that we would need our vehicle is whenever we need groceries. We usually go out into groups if we are going out for the afternoon or whatever. Whenever gas started getting up to $2.20 a gallon, we started making sacrifices. We didn't need to take the weekend trip to get away, we didn't need to go out and drive whenever we got bored. Etc. People bitch before they think of how they actually can CHANGE things by doing some things that have been listed.