[V8] On the end of the V8 because of fuel....

[urq]

... and out here in Kahleefohnia there are a lot of folks who bought homes
they could afford over 50 miles away from where they work.  So many people
in fact that there's often a 50+ mile traffic jam waiting for them twice a
day.  They have precious few options other than carpooling.  I knew I'd
probably be doing hard time in prison if I even tried to do something like
that on a daily basis, so I'm not one of those people.  Some folks in Europe
don't realize that there are states in the USA where it can take a day of
driving to cross.  I remember when I went to visit my friend in El Paso,
Texas.  When he asked me where I'd like to go I said it would be great to
see the manned space flight center in Houston, he asked me if I knew that
when I was in El Paso I was closer to Los Angeles than I was to Houston.  

I've always tried to take the view that no matter where you are there are
going to be positives and negatives ... and people are going to complain
when their situation changes in a negative way, so I try not to get down on
them too much ... 

I do have to say that I did take some comfort when I heard in the news the
other day that Kahleefohnia was no longer the location in the Continental
USA that is paying the highest price for gas ... I'll bet that lasted for 15
minutes ... :-)

Steve B
San Jose, CA (USA)

-----Original Message-----

Part of Ingo's point is that those areas with no viable public
transportation facilities also are frequently many, many miles from centers
of commerce/work places.  It's not unusual for someone to spend an hour in
their automobile each way going to and coming home from work.  

Bastian Preindl <bastian at preindl.net> wrote:  Hi Ingo,

this may be true, but don't think that all or even the majority of 
middle Euope is covered by public transportation. We have a increasing 
migration into cities - in the capitols you really don't need a car. But 
on the countryside we're also lost without a car, and it's getting 
worse. So still you've to pay less than a half for the fuel in 
comparison to us. The price encrease is enormous, that's true, but from 
the absolute point of view you are still doing fine :)

Bastian

Ingo Rautenberg schrieb:
> Bastian,
>
> One big difference, though. Many of us live in areas in the U.S. That have
no public transportation alternatives. And so we have seen the price of fuel
increase 50 percent within a little over a year. 
>
> Ingo Rautenberg