Obviously, gasoline prices have gotten asinine. Despite every official story told, prices came down soon enough when Americans turned to foreign cars with better mileage during the gasoline shortages of the 1970's.      One of the easiest ways to boycott would be to ride the bus to work every weekday. You could still use your car on weekends for shopping, etc., but if a substantial number of the populace rode the bus, this would put a lot of pressure on the multinational oil conglomerates. The sooner, the better, but doing this for the month of July would provide a good hook for you, and others.      And, if you do this, write letters to the ceo's of all oil companies and auto manufacturers. Tell them that you can no longer afford to drive, due to outrageous gas prices. Don't accept heinous solutions like drilling in Alaska or other American nature preserves, since there isn't enough oil there for a month of use, anyway.  Existing oil fields haven't been updated in 20 years. Tell them to come up with better solutions than ethanol, which only raises food prices while doing nothing for the environment.      Just to play hardball, write some letters to congress, ceo's of Disney, Six Flags/Magic Mountain, Walmart, etc. Tell them the above, and that, with outrageous gas prices, you won't be doing any summer vacationing. The economic hit is causing you to shop thrift shops and garage sales exclusively. And, unless gas prices get very close to a dollar a gallon (you're playing HARD ball, remember) your family will observe Christmas by exchanging homemade Christmas cards!      And, again, don't buy off on b.s. solutions like a gas tax holiday. Pass this idea to friends and relatives, and throughout the internet.

Obviously, gasoline prices have gotten asinine. Despite every official story told, prices came down soon enough when Americans turned to foreign cars with better mileage during the gasoline shortages of the 1970's.      One of the easiest ways to boycott would be to ride the bus to work every weekday. You could still use your car on weekends for shopping, etc., but if a substantial number of the populace rode the bus, this would put a lot of pressure on the multinational oil conglomerates. The sooner, the better, but doing this for the month of July would provide a good hook for you, and others.      And, if you do this, write letters to the ceo's of all oil companies and auto manufacturers. Tell them that you can no longer afford to drive, due to outrageous gas prices. Don't accept heinous solutions like drilling in Alaska or other American nature preserves, since there isn't enough oil there for a month of use, anyway.  Existing oil fields haven't been updated in 20 years. Tell them to come up with better solutions than ethanol, which only raises food prices while doing nothing for the environment.      Just to play hardball, write some letters to congress, ceo's of Disney, Six Flags/Magic Mountain, Walmart, etc. Tell them the above, and that, with outrageous gas prices, you won't be doing any summer vacationing. The economic hit is causing you to shop thrift shops and garage sales exclusively. And, unless gas prices get very close to a dollar a gallon (you're playing HARD ball, remember) your family will observe Christmas by exchanging homemade Christmas cards!      And, again, don't buy off on b.s. solutions like a gas tax holiday. Pass this idea to friends and relatives, and throughout the internet.    Might work for some people who go hone to work to job but as an example I often have appointments in different areas on the same day. public transit would force me to cancel some of them.

story told, prices came down soon enough when Americans turned to foreign cars with better mileage during the gasoline shortages of the 1970's.      One of the easiest ways to boycott would be to ride the bus to work every weekday. You could still use your car on weekends for shopping, etc., but if a substantial number of the populace rode the bus, this would put a lot of pressure on the multinational oil conglomerates. The sooner, the better, but doing this for the month of July would provide a good hook for you, and others.      And, if you do this, write letters to the ceo's of all oil companies and auto manufacturers. Tell them that you can no longer afford to drive, due to outrageous gas prices. Don't accept heinous solutions like drilling in Alaska or other American nature preserves, since there isn't enough oil there for a month of use, anyway.  Existing oil fields haven't been updated in 20 years. Tell them to come up with better solutions than ethanol, which only raises food prices while doing nothing for the environment.      Just to play hardball, write some letters to congress, ceo's of Disney, Six Flags/Magic Mountain, Walmart, etc. Tell them the above, and that, with outrageous gas prices, you won't be doing any summer vacationing. The economic hit is causing you to shop thrift shops and garage sales exclusively. And, unless gas prices get very close to a dollar a gallon (you're playing HARD ball, remember) your family will observe Christmas by exchanging homemade Christmas cards!      And, again, don't buy off on b.s. solutions like a gas tax holiday. Pass this idea to friends and relatives, and throughout the internet. Start by holding your breath in July to cut CO2 emissions too.

 And, again, don't buy off on b.s. solutions like a gas tax holiday. Pass this idea to friends and relatives, and throughout the internet. Go and fuck yourself.

Obviously, gasoline prices have gotten asinine. Not at all. The price of gas in the United States is still a bargain. Most Americans have become spoiled by unrealistically low gas prices. Having the freedom to travel when and where we want is NOT being spoiled, it's the way EVERYBODY should be and until recently that's the way we were. Stuffing us into slow public transportation is a step backward, not forward.

Obviously, gasoline prices have gotten asinine. Not at all. The price of gas in the United States is still a bargain. Most Americans have become spoiled by unrealistically low gas prices. Having the freedom to travel when and where we want is NOT being spoiled, it's the way EVERYBODY should be and until recently that's the way we were. Stuffing us into slow public transportation is a step backward, not forward.   Most Americans still have legs and feet and can afford bikes.   Freedom to travel in America appears to me to have historically been on Americans' own nickels unless the travel is along subsidized routes via subsidized vehicles.  Please do consider vehicle codes of most of the 50 states giving preference to those whose vehicles are The Two Cadillacs - as in their shoes.   Also consider that in most, possibly all of 50 of America's states bicycles are legal vehicles with same rights and responsibilities as cars unless official traffic control devices say otherwise (such as lane restrictions, most of which exclude cars and trucks).  As far as I know in PA and in at least most of the other 49 USA states , bicycles are street-legal vehicles but exempted from requirements for insurance, registration, _title_, inspection and tags, along with having a lower standard to meet for lights should they be operated at nighttime.   My experience in/near Philadelphia is in addition that *mostly* (I disclaim any guarantee) that police officers *mostly* do not stop and ticket cyclists for running red lights as long as the cyclists stop and yield to pedestrians and vehicles who have green lights.   (CAUTION - failure to stop for a red light and failure to come to a full stop at a stop sign is ticketable in PA with 3 points on the vehicle operator's license.  My sense is that culturally in my region of PA that stopping at stop signs mainly has to be done to the extent to avoid at-fault crashes, and that cyclists culturally only need to stop for red lights to yield to whoever has a green light.)  - Don Klipstein ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it )