Hating the Gas Prices -- I'm Taking The Train!

July 14, 2008, 5:48 AM

Right now in Southern Cal. it's about 4.50 a gallon. I'm forced to take an hour train ride + 30 minute bus/trolley ride to get to my final destination in downtown San Diego because I can' afford to drive all the way down there.

Anyone else starting to make the transition to public transportation?

July 14, 2008, 6:17 AM

Same here.its upsets me because i cant go to as many cons as i had planed...

July 14, 2008, 1:51 PM

Nope, I'm still driving around and my car eats gas. I could take a train to work or school but it's a long walk. I usually fill up my car when it's half empty, so I try not to think about how much I'm spending now. =(

It's 4.50 here as well.

July 14, 2008, 2:40 PM

I can't say I hate them since I don't drive but I have noticed the prices are very high at the moment. I think a gallon is about 4.5 litres or something over here so for a gallon over here it works out to about £5.35 or $10.70...I think.

I'll happily walk or get the train most places though.

July 14, 2008, 3:21 PM

I'ts gone over a pound a litre now, it's getting rather ridiculous, I don't drive either but it's bloody ridiculous just getting the bus these days (don't get me started on taxi's either) It's pushing the prices of food up aswel because petrol prices are so high

So yeah, I don't drive but it pecks my head something rotten because it's like some nasty little chain reaction of doom

July 15, 2008, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Riddick

I don't drive either but it's bloody ridiculous just getting the bus these days (don't get me started on taxi's either)

Ha! I still only get a half on the bus because I say I'm 15.

I have been told several times that I blatantly look older than 15/16 though. xD

The bus prices go up every time I get on one though.

...and taxis, well, they don't even bother telling you the prices have gone up, they've gone up like 50/60p in the past couple of weeks which is shit...although a positive side to that is that I've started jogging to 5 a side now because I refuse to pay £3.40 (about $6.80) just for a 5/10min drive.

July 15, 2008, 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Riddick

It's pushing the prices of food up aswel because petrol prices are so high

It's called cost push inflation. There is also demand pull inflation

As for petrol it's over $2 a litre. But our public transport is so shit that you have to drive everywhere.

**Battle Royale: Profiles** · July 15, 2008, 2:18 PM

My car is pretty good with gas, so I've just been driving it like I normally have.

The public transportation where I live is pretty awful, if not nonexistent. I'm taking a 6-hour road-trip to Tampa, and I'm still going to drive there, just because the train system is too expensive and slow in my state.

The only real change I've made with gas, is I try to carpool more often. When I go to conventions or visit friends who live many towns over, I try and get other friends to join me, to pitch in for gas. As for the price by me, it's $4.19.

July 15, 2008, 2:40 PM

It's about $4.09 in Maine. I don't own a car, so that part is okay... but when I get rides and pay for my friend/family's gas, it's still gets expensive, and the people I go with don't like using their car 'cause they know they have to deal with gas prices being like they are. I think public transportation, walking/biking, and/or carpooling are prime ways to go. I have a bike, I use my feet to get from A to B as well, and carpool.

Suggestion to those where this can apply:
Find a great local job, get rid of your car (or make it run gas-free), buy a great bike, and live the life without paying for a car, insurance, repairs, or gas... go green, get green... get it? Haha...