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Posted on 05/16/2008 1:26:06 PM PDT by Rufus2007
If gas prices are getting you down, just hop on your bike or grab a guitar like the May 16 “Good Morning America.”
ABC News financial correspondent Bianna Golodryga, described as the “new TV money honey” by U.S. News and World Report’s Paul Bedard, reported yet another angle on high gas prices.
“Cities across the country, like Portland, Louisville and Washington, D.C., are trading in gas-guzzlers for bike paths,” Golodrya reported. “All three cities are reporting spikes in bike use. We tracked one Washington state resident who says by riding his bike to work just once a week, he’s saving an average of $7 a day.”
In a one-time commute reminiscent of NBC’s “‘Today’ Goes Green” series, Diane Sawyer and David Muir were taped biking to work.
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Nothing wrong with riding a bike to work.
I do that almost every day.
Keep an eye on Ms. Golodryga. In the last few days I’ve gotten the feeling she’s trying to enhance her lib “street cred.”
Bikes are fine as long as they understand that car are much bigger and some have to get to work in a quicker time. There are minimum speed limits and if bikes are going to be on the road they need to follow the laws of the road.
Love to!
I’m gonna try to join ya in that next week. Gonna service my bike tomorrow. Haven’t ridden it since fall so needs work.
Flats within bike distance of ABC in NYC cost $1,000/sf.
That's either a long ride, it's assisted by bus or train, or he's driving a really low-mpg vehicle.
Big deal. They have to bike what, about 6 blocks to work from their Manhattan high-rise?
Nothing wrong with riding a bike to work.
The problem is I live in Louisiana where it hits mid to upper 90’s with humitity in the 90%s. I would be dead!
Nope. I used to, until I bought a house where the roads are too dangerous.
What people need to understand is this. There is nothing wrong with common sense and thriftyness. There is nothing “green” about saving money. It just makes sense. do without some things sometimes if you don’t need it. remember our parents mending socks? Come on people.
While I totally agree, I also feel compelled to add that motorists need to be mindful of laws just as well. I bike to work everyday, and I’ve watched drivers totally neglect coming to a complete stop at a light when there are pedestrians and/or bikers present.
Cars are bigger, but human life is more valuable.
It helps too to be up to date on one's state's laws regarding bicycles on public roads -- what is required, what is permitted and what is prohibited.
My experience is that very few cyclists AND motorists are even aware there are such laws.
After seeing Maria Bartiromo the other day we could stand to see a new honey. She's looking a little long in the tooth these days.
I walk to work every day. It’s 13 steps from the bedroom to my office. I filled up my gas tank last week for the first time in 6 weeks. I feel sorry for people who have to commute every day. In the internet age, there’s no reason why most professionals can’t work from home. My neighbor commutes 30 miles each way, and he’s a computer programmer. I asked him why he couldn’t just telecommute, and his response was, “how would we be able to waste 3 hours a day sitting in meetings blaming other people for our mistakes if we all worked from home?”
I see people doing stupid things, all because they are in a hurry or have a total lack of courtesy. I have been run over, hit with a tire iron by a passenger as he went by, and been threatened more than once just because I was on the road. A word of advice to motorists that like to mess with the bicyclists - most of us are in damn good shape, and a large % are packing (legally).
Me - I ride because I like it, not because I am some green weenie enviro-nazi. I am 51 yrs old - 6'4" - 225, college educated and spent most of life in the oil and gas business. My 21 yr old daughter, new college grad and Obama supporting moron, wouldn't ride a bike around the block if someone paid her!
regards - red .
And speaking of pedal bikes, I don't have any experience with this autoshifting bike, but it may be worth it for some people.
Autoshifting pedal bikeIn the meanwhile, I'm keeping an eye on developments in biofuel production.
First, the bad news about ethanol. Ethanol fires are evidently harder to control than gasoline fires.
Ethanol fires hard to control 1Hopefully, ways will be developed to make controlling ethanol fires easier.
Ethanol fires hard to control 2
On the brighter side concerning ethanol, there's now evidence that people might get as much, or more, bang per buck for their gas dollars with gas / ethanol mixtures.
Gas-competitive gas / ethanol mixturesAlso, I was surprised by the introduction of a machine (popularly known as a still) for making home-made ethanol.
EFuel100In stark contrast to the 1700 gallons of water required to make one gallon of corn-based ethanol as indicated by the OP, the EFuel100 uses only 170 gallons of water to produce 35 gallons of ethanol In other words, the EFuel100 uses less than 1% as much water as corn ethanol, under five gallons, to produce one gallon of ethanol (corrections welcome).
But watch out for fines for violating biofuel regulations.
Fines for violating biofuel regulationsAlso, progress is being made in the development of other non-corn ethanol production technologies as well.
Non-corn ethanolFinally, I've also been hearing good things about biodiesel production but need to find some links.
No. There isn't. However, it's not the solution to the country's energy problem. Just two days ago the Senate voted to block drilling offshore.
Returning to caveman days is not the actions of a world superpower.
Also, even though you and I use little gas there are still so many people who have enough money so that they don't care what happens to the price of gas. They will still order their Suburbans and Escalades.
But if bikes have all the same rights to the road as motor vehicles should they not be licensed, inspected and in some states personal property taxed? Shouldn’t they have turn signals and horns?
I’d ride the 15 miles sometimes, but biking through the ‘hood where the plant is can be an issue
Sorry, I’d have to go for D. A Bag of Walnuts.
I just couldn’t ‘hit’ a woman I knew was a liberal airhead. I would need a bagful of Viagra to maintain attention.
equipment specs/regs are mandated by the individual states and vary greatly. We have turn/stop signals...its called our left hand. Read your local laws.
I wish more riders used their signals.
Not Guilty! oh..wait...nvrmind
I live in New Orleans four or five months a year and am able to ride my bike to work in the summer.
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