Ok not stop consuming it altogether, but consume it less.  Gas
consumption across North America didn't go down last year.  But it
could have.  If think if the price of gas were really a burden we
would have seen consumption go down, if only for discretionary things
like driving holidays etc.  But that didn't happen.

Just like you say - better mileage is part of the answer.  Maybe
you're doing all that you can do, maybe we can do more.  I switched
to a smaller car and make the effort now to carpool more.  Most of us
can do a little better here and there.  Longer term solutions like
better land use planning will take time.  But we gotta do something
right?  What else can you do?

Jeff

On 22-Apr-06, at 10:03 PM, Robert Fisher wrote:

> C'mon man. That's like saying if air were really polluted we'd quit
> breathing it.
>
> I'm not using a drop more than I have to. My gas consumption by the
> gallon
> varies very little from month to month. Pulling my kid out of
> school and
> shutting down my business are the only further steps I could take
> to cut
> back and those obviously are not acceptable options.
> Until I can engineer a solution that allows us to use less gas for
> the same
> things (i.e. better mileage), or go over to something else
> altogether, I
> don't have the choice to 'stop consuming it', or even lessen my
> consumption.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Palmer" <jpalmer@MTS.NET>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 7:03 PM
> Subject: Re: Local gas prices
>
>
>> Come on now guys.  If gas were really expensive, we would stop
>> consuming it.  That doesn't seem to be happening.
>>
>> On 21-Apr-06, at 10:07 PM, Jake de Villiers wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah isn't that great. They've got us trained so that 99.9 cents a
>>> litre
>>> ($4.50 CDN/Imperial Gal) creates lineups at the f*cking gas station!
>>>
>>> On 4/21/06, Robert Fisher <refisher@mchsi.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The no-names seem to have gone down a penny (to $3.08) since last
>>>> night....
>>>> I better run right out and fill everything up.
>>>>
>>>> Cya,
>>>> Robert
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jake
>>> 1984 Vanagon GL
>>> 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
>>> www.crescentbeachguitar.com