What price would fuel have to reach for you to cut down on the amount of miles you do in the car?

The roads are even fuller than 7 years ago during the blockades when petrol was 81p a litre.

 

Not much choice for me

Disabled so very reliant on my car. They've got me over an oil barrell.

 

Re: What price would fuel have to reach for you to cut down on the amount of miles you do in the car

And the rest of us mate. People who can afford to be chauffeur driven busy trying to price us off the road.

Come the revolution they'll be second up against the wall. After Chris Moyles. If I can find a wall big enough.

 

RE: What price would fuel have to reach for you to cut down on the amount of miles you do in the car

But how do you cut down on going to work and back?</p>

Decent, cheap and plentiful public transport is only way its going to happen. But the government only care about public transport in London, rest of us don't matter.
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I long for the day when...................

motoring reverts to being a pasttime for thewealthy as it was at the beginning of the 20th century-Henry Ford has a lot to answer for

 

RE: What price would fuel have to reach for you to cut down on the amount of miles you do in the car

Agree completely - the whole system is rubbish unless you live in London.

My trip to work is 15 minutes by car and about 1 hour (on a good day) by public transport including a 20 minute walk. Cost would be treble on public transport too. Just doesn't make any sense to get the train.

Public transport only works if you work in a city centre and live yards from a train station or main bus route.

 

Job commuting isn't like what it used to be i.e. a walk,cycle or single bus ride.

Until we move closer to where we work or find a job nearer where we live then public transport can't help us. Its the car.</p>

 

Re: What price would fuel have to reach for you to cut down on the amount of miles you do in the car

Now living and working down south, I only use the car as a luxury item. Without it when I lived in Yorkshire, I would have been unable to get home in the evening due to bus and train connections being non-existant.

 

RE: What price would fuel have to reach for you to cut down on the amount of miles you do in the car

My commute used to be 30 min walk to the station, 50 minutes by trian and another 15 minutes walk from the station to work.

I don't have a bus link from the estate I live on and the times of buses from stops within 10 minutes walk don't link with the train times.

In June, after the floods, the line I used was shut until september so my only option was to travel by car. The trians have been running OK since but I haven't gone back becuase now it costs about the same and saves me over an hour each day in cummuting time.

Until they sort out the public transport system or the way we work changes people will always need to use cars.

 

Nothing we can do.

Now that we have all adjusted our lives to be reliant on the car exploitation was always going to occur.</p>

The same thing is happening with computers and their software.</p>

Except in the computer World its one company thats running the show instead of a Cartel</p>

 

I blame maggie thatcher

if she'd not decimated this areas industrial base, we'd still all bewalking down t'pit or steelworks for afternoon shift</p>

instead we are all following norman tebbits advice and getting on our bikes looking for work further afield, unfortunately the road infrastruture and public transport network isn't there to support that theory</p>

 

£2.73 nt

 

unfortunatly it was previous governments who gave away our oil reserves

to the oil companies, but MT is still a bitch

 

It was spent on keeping taxes down wasn't it?

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RE: It was spent on keeping taxes down wasn't it?

That was Thatcher selling British Gas, British Telecom etc etc!

Tell Sid!

 

RE: What price would fuel have to reach for you to cut down on the amount of miles you do in the car

where do you go to/from?

 

Are you sure it wasnt the tax cuts following election in 1979?

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I've no idea what we are talking about anymore! nt

 

Re: What price would fuel have to reach for you to cut down on the amount of miles you do in the car

about 1.75