Happened to overhear CNN's newsbite regarding the increased gas pricing yesterday. No suggestions as to how to save gas unfortunately. But for the first time ever that I am aware of, they referred to the fact that gas prices, when adjusted for inflation, are still lower than they were in 1981. (1981 is the historical high water mark; no one is adjusting for the various taxes either, that would be an interesting story).
We need to be topping $5/gal (or more!) before gas prices really start to push people into thinking about alternatives like bicycling and mass transit I'm afraid. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 12:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Bikies] How not to help consumers during a gas shortage: I just ran across a page from the Austin American-Statesman that supposedly gives consumers advice on how to save money on gas: http://www.statesman.com/business/content/business/other/gas.html There is a link under "tips to save you money" on "public transit." I was overjoyed to see a news publication actually present "public transit" as a means to save money on gas. I clicked on the link and discovered the article was disparaging public transit. What a complete waste of a great opportunity to help educate the public: http://www.statesman.com/news/mplayer/m/3639 _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
