A few suggestions to reduce your gasoline consumption:

-  live in a place where you don't have to drive.  Yup, that means you have
to live NEAR OTHER PEOPLE!  Horrors!  Most Americans don't want to.
Including a lot of vanagonauts, as far as I can tell.

-  don't drive a vehicle that gets less than 50 mpg.  Yeah, no vanagons.
Get a Prius.

Reducing energy consumption is, IMO, an ethical choice.  It is not always
the most economical option, especially if you have already got sunk costs in
housing out in a place where you have to drive everywhere (and apparently
there aren't any school buses) and in inefficient vehicles.

Joy

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Joy Hecht
and Matilda, 1989 Burgundy Vanagon

For musings about life and the vanadventures:
http://www.joyhecht.net

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:::-----Original Message-----
:::From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
:::Of Robert Fisher
:::Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 8:03 PM
:::To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
:::Subject: Re: Local gas prices
:::
:::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.