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Originally posted by ARTelevision
Personally, I don't care about the price of gasoline.
It's a relatively inexpensive necessary commodity.
It would be lower if not for taxation and the politics of environmentalism.
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Yeah... I feel ya on your end; we had this debate before. It is however, not an inexpensive commodity depending on a collective set of circumstances and individual curcumstances. I actually ran out of gas in Valley Forge earlier this week cause I didn't even have a dollar to tap into the tank to get me home from Philly. Thank God my bike was mounted and I was able to ride home to grab a gas can.
With the high cost of child care, mortgage, insurance (well that's not bad at all, but another collective factor), food, beggars at my job (students, administration and staff), it gets to be a big issue with me.
The distance I travel to work some say is too far and generally takes 50 minutes to 1:05 minutes during rush periods. The gas I swear is getting watered down as well, or is it the heat from the road surface making my tires stick, thus a lack of road surface resistance. I fill up twice a week ($60-$65) but get paid every other week. My free budget is 125-130, therefore, bills paid, but i'm broke from the damn gas and jones'n.
I can't wait till schools over so I can put cobwebs on my car and transit via the bike. Bike commuters holla at me.
Pom