Re: The US "Gas Boycott"

"neithskye" <jill_bookerGREENEGGSANDSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On May 15, 4:10 pm, "Timothy Alcorn" <taalc...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Anyway, to the OP, even with gas here fluctuating around the $1.10/
litre mark (don't know what that is in gallons) it's still far less
expensive filling up my car than it is taking public transit to work -
almost three times less expensive, in fact. As someone who travels
from the 'burbs to the "big city" I end up paying two separate transit
system fares, not to mention that the transit system somehow manages
to turn a 21-mile distance into a 90-minute trip, making for a long 3-
hour minimum daily commute. At least in my car I can listen to music,
and not be crammed like a sardine into a hot and stuffy subway,
feeling someone sneeze on my neck, or listening to someone clip their
toenails across the aisle.

Yeah, I hate the gas prices too ($1.15/L cdn here, that's about $3.75/gal
usd roughly). But, I live a fair distance from my work, about 15km, in a
city with no rapid transit system. My only options to get to work:
Drive my car (anywhere from 20-40 mins depending on traffic)
Ride my bike (1-1.5 hours, and I live in an extreme winter climate so that's
only good for about 5 months of the year)
Take the bus ($4/day round-trip and would take 1.5+ hours, due to having to
not only get into downtown but out of downtown core and transfer buses, in
my car I can go around downtown and avoid the worst traffic)

It's pretty obvious, I'm going to drive. It saves me oodles of time. And
with a car with a small, efficient 1.8L 4cyl engine, I don't burn a whole
lot of gas. I do about 1000km/month and that's almost exactly two tanks of
gas (~45L each)

When I lived in a different city that had a rapid-transit system (LRT), I
took that to work of course. It was simply far, far faster than driving the
whole way. But I still had to drive *to* the LRT station, which was about
4-5km from home, but fortunately featured free scramble parking (aka the
first 500 or so cars can park there then the lot is full)


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