Changed you driving habits?

[Mirc]

I don't think that in any country people of my age (14) are allowed to drive... So I voted last option!

 

[IglooDame]

Out of curiosity, anyone changed their flying or home heating habits?

I'm going to Paris this weekend and I'm taking the train. For obvious reasons other than scenery. We also fly often to Amsterdam for a day's meetings and then fly back. We're now stuck in that gap and schedule. There's no ready alternative quite like it and the govt doesn't seem to be in a hurry to slap taxes on aviation fuel just yet.

I gather they've evaluated the use of videoconferencing recently?

My driving habits have changed slightly, on my day-trip to Vermont yesterday I pretty much kept below 10-over-the-limit.

 

[Mirc]

My driving habits have changed slightly, on my day-trip to Vermont yesterday I pretty much kept below 10-over-the-limit.

I don't think that this affects how much gasoline your car uses.

 

[IglooDame]

I don't think that this affects how much gasoline your car uses.

It does affect it a bit, plus my previous higher speeds had a bit more gas/brake to them.

 

[Mirc]

It affects it? I thought that: higher speed determins higher consume, but you get to the target faster so you will have that high consume for a shorter time.

Good that I know, now I'll drive slower if I'll ever get a car.

 

[El Justo]

haven't really changed too much...although i have only a 10 minute drive to work every day and all of the stores are all within a mile or so from my home.

i put some petro in the tank this morning and iirc, i paid $2.86 per 9/10 of a gallon. it's obsence actually...at least for NJ.

--sigh-- i remember the good 'ole days (1998-1999) when i could schlepp out to Hammonton, NJ (the blueberry capital of the world for those of you who are not familiar w/ the Garden State) and purchase regular unleaded for 77 cents a gallon!

 

[Rhymes]

No because I really don't have a choice. I live about 15 miles away from my college.

I live 17 miles away from university and I go there cycling every day(well 3 times a week)
healthy habbit
Saves me a couple of hundread dollars a year from gas.

 

[IglooDame]

It affects it? I thought that: higher speed determins higher consume, but you get to the target faster so you will have that high consume for a shorter time.

Good that I know, now I'll drive slower if I'll ever get a car.

I think there's a "most efficient speed" - for example, driving the trip at either 20mph or 100mph will both consume more total gas than driving the trip at 60mph.

 

[Irish Caesar]

Out of curiosity, anyone changed their flying or home heating habits?

Actually, I fly more than usual. But there's really no other good way to get home.

 

[AL_DA_GREAT]

Do what all Swedes do. Take the subway and buses. This is a fast cheap and enironmental way to travel.

 

[fishlore]

I saw a subway once, years ago when I was visiting Chicago. They simply don't exist in my neck of the woods. I wish it were an option.

 

[Irish Caesar]

Do what all Swedes do. Take the subway and buses. This is a fast cheap and enironmental way to travel.

Can't take a subway from Atlanta to Boston. And I wouldn't take a bus from here to there if it was free.

 

[AL_DA_GREAT]

Take a train. Anyways is it true that buses are bad in the US?

 

[Irish Caesar]

I've never taken one besides the airport shuttle to Logan, but I don't like buses.

And flying is far more convenient than the train. < 3 hours nonstop vs. over 24 hours and a change of trains in Washington.

 

[AL_DA_GREAT]

What is wrong with buses. I love bus rides

 

[Irish Caesar]

Slow, loud, cramped, no leg room. Basically planes that go 500 mph slower.

 

[AL_DA_GREAT]

hmm you must have bad buses. Swedish buses are fast quiet and often not crowded. but if you are going to another town flying is an option.

 

[Irish Caesar]

They can't go any faster than our buses, I wouldn't think...

120 km/h tops?

 

[ummmm........]

I quit taking drives purely for pleasure last summer when gas went over $3/gallon, and I never really got back into the habit again.

I'll still take the scenic route home when the weather's nice though . . .

 

[CIVPhilzilla]

I only drive to school and to work out, less than fifteen miles a day. I can suck up the cost.