Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Simon, While not necessarily true for you, as transportation costs increase, people will make decisions on where to live and work with those costs in mind. I remember a cousin working on Wall Street purposefully buying a house in NJ within two blocks of a rail line into Penn Station so that she would not need a car for work. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 4/27/06, Simon Ogilvie <simon.ogilvie@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > At 09:51 PM 4/26/06 -0400, Don Dory wrote: > > > > > >>But with gas hitting $3 in the U.S. people might change. Possibly try > > mass > > >>transit. > > > "Gas" in the UK (we call it petrol) is now the equivalent of $8 per gallon > (?1 per litre). > > I still have no option for mass transit (public transport) as my daily > commute to work would take roughly three hours by bus rather than 20 > minutes > by car and would actually cost me more money. There's no railroad > (railway) > that does the same route as a lot of the local rail system was closed down > about 30 years ago through lack of use. > > So to go back to the original question, whatever the price of gas goes up > to, I have very little option but to continue buying it. I could reduce > my > usage by buying a more fuel efficient car, and the Toyota Prius and Honda > Civic IMA are looking very tempting at the moment... > > Simon. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >