Apr
23
If you guessed “obscene”, you win! (I know, Carlton, it’s still a pittance compared to UK and Euro prices…) And we’re all riding our bikes to work and store so it should be irrelevant, right?
The station around the corner from our office in San Juan Capistrano, California, had these prices posted this week as I walked to lunch. We’re well on our way to $5/gallon and there still seems to be no major shift in driving habits. Minor adjustments and more hybrid car sales, yes. But no major impacts that I can see on true alternatives to car use at this point.
Speaking of shifts in driving habits, at Sea Otter I overheard someone commenting on how places with poor weather seem to have more utilitarian bike use than those places with more agreeable weather. Think Portland, Seattle, New York, Boston… Now think L.A., Miami, Phoenix. Which ones come to mind when you think “city with lots of bike commuters”?
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Caltrain was JAM PACKED this morning. It was unreal; I’ve never seen it so full. Probably a dozen cyclists got left behind at one station on the express train I boarded because of lack of capacity.
I’m wondering how this is going to affect my getting to local races. Carpooling now seems to be the option.
If the UK is anything to go by, gas prices can continue to rise and rise and there will be very little obvious sign of less car use.
I know this is an extreme example, but look at Gaza. Fuel is hard to come by, distances are mega short (it’s a tiny sliver of land) but people still want to drive everywhere. Regular gas is near impossible to buy but cooking oil is slightly more accessible…so there’s a roaring trade in converting cars to run on Gaza’s version of biofuels.