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Aneirin -> RE: Gas prices have spiked! May soon past record highs! $4-$5 gas coming (4/17/2011 5:19:51 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Marini
Thanks for posting, HippieKinster, I thought most Europeans didn't have to drive or depend on their cars in general, as much as we do in the states.
But what exists in Europe is a far cry from what exists in the UK in the more outlying areas. My city for example, where I have been without personal transport for three years and have now in despair gone back to personal transport and it's costs as public transport actually hinders freedom in some places, timetables that are not adhered to, services which are haphazard and the rising cost of fayre which is quite often, simply not fair for many. I purchased my own vehicle because I need to go to work, to a place not covered by public transport, well, I tell a lie, one bus a day and three buses to get to that bus, which amounts to a significant cost and about three hours to get to work less than ten miles away. I would have cycled the distance, but that road claimed it's fourth cyclist this year recently, death due to cars drivers that don't care on a fast major road through the countryside.
As to travelling long distance, my record time for commuting was two and a half hours by car each morning and the same in the evening, basically almost from one side of the country to the other through the nature of the job.
But myself these past three years as unemployed, I have realised reliance on public transport is actually a hindrance to finding work, as even prospective employers are now asking if an applicant has their own motorised transport, and around here with what qualifies as public transport, I don't blame them, for employers need employees to be reliable.
But that is what the politicians in this country just do not get regards the unemployed, the status of public transport anywhere other than the capital, for in their misguided policies, they are pushing a lot of people up against a wall, as what jobs lie in outlying areas simply cannot be got to on a regular basis due to the shite excuse for public transport, which is not so much of a service since the deregulation ideas to create a better market, for all that has done is create monopolies where the modus operandi is profit, certainly not service by a long way.
But gas is expensive here despite the blood that is being spilled for it, but most of our cost is taxation by government, they increase it all the time, and we just accept it, for I believe the fight has gone out of Britain, we are too divided to stand together in a common aim, so that being, the government, any government for they are all the same have won, they own us, we are their cash cows.
Oh, and I drive an economy engined Renault 1.4 litre and even with that, I use a vacuum gauge to make sure I am burning the fuel wisely, the needle must stay in the green as much as possible.
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