...are too damned high!
Posted on 08/29/2013 3:38:01 AM PDT by Olog-hai
More motorcycle owners hitting the road with 50mpg bikes, or better, no Onstar or other devices. Obama tried to remove all the running clunkers so people would be forced to buy a new vehicle that can be tracked, has a black box and or is electric.
...are too damned high!
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You beat me to it. This economy isn’t recovering. What a joke.
If American’s love affair with cars is over, BO and his Marxist buddies have won another battle.
American’s love cars because cars give them freedom to go where they want to go when they want to go.
Can’t control a population that can do that.
I used to always fill the car with gas.
Now I buy $30.00 worth at a time , and I watch the needle and stay home.
Gas prices are really bad. I haven’t gone for a boat ride all year, Gas costs too much. I may even sell the boat.
5 gallon can of gas for the lawn mower is almost $20.00.
...and states are taking notice as gas tax dollars are showing a big dip. Meaning no money or less money for road repairs or cash to keep dept of transportation folks hired.
It’s the economy stupid.
With five exceptions:
Texas
Montana
Wyoming
Alaska
North Dakota
...and I’m sure everyone knows why!
If you don’t have a job, you’re probably not going to be doing too much driving.
Since I was downsized I work from home. Because of this I drive maybe 30 miles a week, I never really have to go anywhere other than groceries, and other errands. I have a 2005 car with 15000 miles on it that is babied.
I’ll remember this when I’m sitting in traffic.
Exactly right. They've succeeded in demonizing personal transport as elitist and unnecessary. Ridership on public transportation in the Tampa Bay area has been up month-over-month for the last two years, and many attribute that to the rising price of gas.
I see fewer young people on the roads. My 21 year old cousin doesn't even have her driver's license and doesn't want it. She uses public transportation to get where she wants to go, or my aunt or uncle pick her up for longer trips to see family. It's sad.
Kids today are so enmeshed in their digital lives that having a real life outside of their smartphones and computers is alien to them. They don't want the freedom associated with a vehicle, and in many ways, I believe, that's going to become the norm quicker than we can turn it around.
We live in a "me, myself, and I" society. Obama is the leader of the takers. Kids today don't want to work, they don't want a vehicle or a home due to maintenance costs or regular payments. They want to live in their insulated little cocoons and be left alone, the only social interactions consisting of Facebook and Skype chats and the occasional out-of-doors adventures to a shopping center or grocery store.
The dream of independence is dead or dying around us. We might very well be the last of a breed, FReepers.
Heh. I commute 122 round trip miles every day in a Scion FR-S and love it. But it is on fairly high speed twisties almost all the way and virtually no other cars. It’s something I look forward to, every single day.
-- Yogi channeled
Gas prices too high. Cannot afford to do anything once you get somewhere.
I make a lot of decisions based on the cost of a 20 mile round trip to town.
Reasons people aren’t driving as much:
* If one in six are unemployed or classified as disabled, you don’t have the money to afford many road trips or job to go to.
* More people can telecommute and work from home; fewer miles traveled.
* More young people find entertainment at home in the form of internet and video games instead of driving around. And many are at home without a job, though not counted as unemployed, so they aren’t driving to work or school.
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