it's not long now... things will change... but how? what will You do? and can you afford to take a new plan- what if you can't afford to go to work?
2007-11-16 08:21:34 · 4 answers · asked by omnimog 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Take mass transit and raise my rates.
2007-11-16 08:25:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The world isn't about to get a $4/gallon 'oil shock,' the US is. Gasoline prices in Europe, Brazil, and many other places have been over $4 a gallon for a very long time, due to high taxation.
I remember the late 70s, and I never got out of the gas-is-money mind set. I've been buying the most fuel-efficient car I could find my entire adult life - and let me tell you, it was /not/ easy finding even a modestly fuel-efficient vehicle there for a while.
I bought my last car when hybrids were still something of an untested oddity, so I just went for a cheap compact car that cost less than half what a Prius did when it hit the US the next year, and got 37mpg. It's gotten pretty beat up over the years, and is now getting only 34.
I'll probably go hybrid, next, though I'm a little dissapointed with the way the returns for going hybrid diminish as the vehicle gets smaller. So, I might just wait for a plug-in, electric-drive vehicle, like the promised Chevy Volt. That is, if I can keep my sub-compact POS running that long.
2007-11-16 16:29:56 · answer #2 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I've been paying over $6.00 a gallon for over five years and it hasn't slowed me down a bit. I'm not rich, either. I'm retired, but I still go where I want to, when I want to.
2007-11-16 16:30:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I carpool with my wife as it is.
2007-11-16 16:27:42 · answer #4 · answered by civil_av8r 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋