How to deal with high gasoline prices...
Aug. 21st, 2005 12:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnoSomeone 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.
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.
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Date: 2005-08-23 07:43 pm (UTC)Even if we all walked to work, we'd still be affected by high gas prices, since they are reflected in the products we buy.
But, as was mentioned by others, some of us just have to drive. When I chose my apartment, I realized that the one downside was that it was not convenient to public transportation, but all of the other aspects were strong enough to sway me to choose it anyway. I did, in the past school year, participate in a carpool (which also saved me a lot on parking since carpool parking permits are half-price), and I hope to do it again this year, but the catch is that I have to find someone else who wants to join me. I drive a Honda Civic, which gets good gas mileage, and it takes me about 15 minutes to get to campus. If I took public transportation, it would probably take me about 2 hours.
Now that I think of it, I guess this doesn't really contradict anything you said, since I'm doing what I can to cut down on driving. I guess my point is that some people have more options than others.
In any case, eventually high gas prices will affect bus fares, making public transportation a more expensive option, and probably also taxes, since the government has to run schoolbusses, senior shuttles, etc.
The advantages that the UK has are (1) no matter where you live, there are usually shops within walking distance, and (2) if you need to go somewhere that's too far to walk, it is almost always easy to take public transportation wherever you want to go. Oh, most of the cars are smaller and more efficient than the average car on the road in the US.