Well those of you who feel you don't need a car should feel lucky you live in a place where that is feasible. For many of us, whether for purposes of business travel, suburbia, or rural living, there is no choice but to drive. Such is life.
anitram said:Well those of you who feel you don't need a car should feel lucky you live in a place where that is feasible. For many of us, whether for purposes of business travel, suburbia, or rural living, there is no choice but to drive. Such is life.
LivLuvAndBootlegMusic said:
Don't companies pay for gas for business travel? If not, that's not fair.
I do feel lucky about where I live, but I didn't just end up here. I spent months checking out places all over while factoring in school, my job, and what places I need to go to on a regular basis and made the decision that if I couldn't afford a car, I'd have to make decisions about my living arrangements accordingly.
LivLuvAndBootlegMusic said:
...but you don't NEED 20 gallons of gas a week and no one's forcing you to buy it...
what bammo said.
Bonochick said:I only have a fifteen minute drive to work...AND I live in a rural area.
Dismantled said:
same here
its pretty obvious I live in a rural area *note location but I am really lucky my job is only 15 minutes away...some people communte 1-4 hours everyday from here
randhail said:
Actually people do need 20 gallons a week and we are forced to buy it. Owning a home near a city is super expensive so people move out to the boondocks to have a nice place but a shitty commute. The jobs tend to be near the cities so you have to go to the city unless I want to be unemployed and homeless.
YBORCITYOBL said:
Hola!!! Dis
Everywhere is rural in VT - but I still really do miss the place.
zoney! said:
End?
We've been lucky here in the US for some time. We are just catching up to the rest of the world.
More and more people are needing gas/fuel/oil/natural energy in our world, meaning they cannot keep up with the production which supposedly means the price will continue to grow.
Invest now in oil companies.
randhail said:I've got absolutely no love at all for the oil companies. They are robbing us blind and laughing all the way to the bank.
As for the argument that it is cheaper than a gallon of milk, that is true, but we don't go to the grocery store to buy 20 gallons every week.
randhail said:Actually people do need 20 gallons a week and we are forced to buy it. Owning a home near a city is super expensive so people move out to the boondocks to have a nice place but a shitty commute. The jobs tend to be near the cities so you have to go to the city unless I want to be unemployed and homeless.
Popmartijn said:
P.S. Like I also posted in the gasoline thread in FYM, here's an interesting stat about gasoline prices all over the world:
http://www.trouw.nl/rubriek/1123070046158.html
when i drove, i went through about 13 gallons a week. why did i live so far away from where i worked? because i worked in an industrial area. the closest apartment complex to there is NOT a good one.Popmartijn said:Erm...
20 gallons, that's like 75 litres of gasoline.
A week!
Cleasai said:That list is awfully skewed. If you want a more accurate snapshot of gas prices within a given country, then you're gonna have to either figure out a mean and/or get an average out of all stations within said country. Otherwise you might as well pull the name of a city out of a hat (which, it seems, is what they have done)
Cleasai said:Yes you are right. However $.30 is a lot to be off by. I can only imagine that, that $.30 can change the dynamics of the list. Of course I wouldn't really know until I sit down and figure out the math.
Popmartijn said:
Erm...
20 gallons, that's like 75 litres of gasoline.
A week!
If we take an average car it rides approximately 14 kilometres per litre, so that's 1050 kilometres per week (or roughly 200 per day). If your work is at a set location, that is quite a distance. But then that would be your choice, to live so far away from work, so there's less justification to complain. Either live closer to the city or find a job closer to home if you don't want to use that much gasoline.
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bammo2 said:89.9 pence per litre
ie US$1.63 per litre
which is US$6.151 per gallon (there are 3.785 litres in a us gallon, righ? )
LivLuvAndBootlegMusic said:
All I'm saying is, you chose to work where you do and you chose to live where you do. Nobody makes you do anything.