Get a smaller car, get a smaller house closer to work.
Ok, I'm sort of with you on the gas usage (SUV) thing. I agree that you probably shouldn't complain if have the choice to buy a more efficient vehicle but instead you drive the ford excursion. Even then, some folks are worried about the safety of children and desire a 'tank'.
I don't think living further from work is the same argument. I can't afford to live close to work. I live 25 miles away and I drive and hour each way, at least.
Many people live further from work for the same reason they don't drive an inefficient vehicle, they can't afford that vehicle to begin with, or afford to live closer. In this area, and I'm guessing many others, the housing is more expensive the closer you get to the jobs. Location, location...you know. Those with less cash, must drive the furthest.
Not that I'm complaining about gas. I drive a 95 civic and I often carpool. I think carpooling is a pain in the butt,and it's not easy to schedule if you have kids to pick up, but it really saves a lot of money and stress. my .02
I still remember laughing at one lady who was holding a bottle of Evian, filling a 50,000 SUV and bitching about gas prices. I asked her if she liked the $7.00/gallon water better.
Folks that "complain" about the price of gas sold their VLO too early....
I sense that you may be on the younger side of an average lifetime.
"If I see one more person complain about "high oil prices" when they drive an SUV or commute more than 15 miles to work, I'm going to go postal on their a-s.
Get a smaller car, get a smaller house closer to work."
HEY!! I do drive a small car and a "smaller" house close to work would cost most people twice as much as their larger house since work is in the cities. I know that a small house near where I work would be 3 times the cost of my house ... plus should people move every time they change jobs?
Please ... the Feds/States are sticking it to us in the kiester big time and no one complains too much ... the guy is right.
Thanks for your input. I'm very glad you are not in charge today.
Or have less children. Actually our Explorer gets much better gas mileage than our 1973 Suburban did.
Where I work, we have all these green weenies who are out to save the environment. They'll berate you for five minutes for throwing a cardbord box in the garbage or leaving you computer in sleep mode overnight.
The funny thing is, all these green weenies live out beyond the exurban ring, and commute 50 miles a day to work, so they can commune with nature on their off-hours. I live five miles down the road on a quarter acre lot like a normal person. But when I tell them that I could leave my computer on for fifty years and not use as much energy as they burn driving back and forth in a week, they don't wanna hear about it.