High Oil Prices Turn Americans To Public Transportations »
Posted by: dailynewsus 3 months agoThe national average of $3.98 a gallon on gas prices is making millions of Americans to leave their cars at home and turn to mass transit.
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newbie04203 months ago
Yeah as a Chicagoin* we have plenty of options to plenty of places. As a South Sider when I go to Cubs games on the North Side, instead of driving all the way we take the Metra line (the one I take to work and have monthly parking for) to Randolph, jump on the Red Line and we're at Wrigley in 15 minutes.
The only bad things is certain lines smell like bums and pee.
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mark-stevens3 months ago
What a maroon, John Kerry "If elected, I will raise the price of gas from $1.00 to $1.50" what the hell was he thinking!!!
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ETproductions3 months ago
Boston has a great mas transit system. Ridership is up 6.5% over the same time last year, which translates to nearly $3 million more to improve the already impressive service.
If I really want to take my time, I can grab a cab and pay $30 to get across town in an hour. I can drive my own car. I still need an hour in traffic plus I have to fight to find a legal parking space 2 miles from my destination or pay $12 per hour or $36 for the day to park nearby. Or I can ride the T for $1.70 and be there in 15 minutes. You decide.
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jimdoze3 months ago
"We need more mass transit -- especially electric types"
Agreed!
With abundant supplies of electrical power, electrical personal transit (car) is possible as well.
However, keep in mind the carbon footprint of electricity production. Both of which are reasons I have and will continue to promote the benefits of nuclear power.
Axiom: Industrial Economies require Industrial Energy Production.
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BB643 months ago
Why would you look to a past solution that really wasn't the great solution the liberal save the earth group wants you to believe in? Electric rail wasn't that reliable and still isn't. In lab conditions it works well but as soon as you have water in the form of rain or snow, you're in trouble. Add to that where is the energy coming from? Most urban areas are maxed out. You won't let me build coal plants. Natural gas is very expensive and again, you won't let me build. Wind isn't reliable. Solar still isn't there yet and may never be with current technology. That leaves the evil nuke plants. Oh that's right you won't let me build them either. So that leaves your ego to power this plant and that's about it. So how are we running your choo choo train again?
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rightfromwrong3 months ago
soon Americans will be down to having less cars per family as higher gas prices and indebtedness exacerbates the economic situation.Despite being in a recession inflation is continuing to escalate.
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BB643 months ago
I've been trying. My firm is currently building new plants in China to convert coal to gasoline but our environmental folks will have none of it. My firm is helping in the construction of mining equipment for oil sand so they can extract the oil and refine it. We've been pushing for a new refineries yet we seem to always run into folks wanting to go back to a hunter gatherer society.
Mass transit only works in areas with very high population densities. Without a huge population and strict almost communist/fascist land use laws, it never works well.
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toravia3 months ago
I'd be using public transportation if there WAS any in upstate New York. The U.S. needs to stop wasting my tax money on wars thousands of miles away and rebuild the transportation system it has been dismantling since the fifties if we expect people to be able to afford the commutes we could when gas was only $1 a gallon. (And I vividly remember all the fuss we made when it hit a dollar.)
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bill29363 months ago
More than likely your tax money is being spent on free medical care for illegals.
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BB643 months ago
Perhaps you should study where you tax money actually goes. Federal money in Minnesota that should have been used to rebuild the bridge that collapsed funded their $3 billion light rail system that has less than 10,000 riders per year. I think if you want to force people into light rail or mass transit, make it the law. Give the voters a chance to vote on some of the billion dollar white elephants the DOT comes up with.
As to the war, check out the social services this nation offers. More than 60% of our Federal budget is social pork. Bill2936 is right, we spend in health care for illegals in the area of $100 billion per year. There are many other areas of our government that really needs to be trimmed before you target the military.
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wtagg3 months ago
I don't think the target was the military, but how the military is used.
Solving the illegal issue is also of the same importance. The only realistic way of accomplishing it is to go after those that make coming here illegally worthwhile. That would be the people who hire them.
It is funny that we hear of some rich couple who illegally hire one domestic servant, but never seem to hear about companies that hire hundreds. That is the area that should be investigated.
One law should be that if you hire an immigrant of any sort, you must provide health care. Since this would be an almost impossibility for most companies or individuals, the desired affect would result.
Another important effect on our economy concerning immigrants is the outflow of our financial resources with nothing in return due to immigrants sending money to their families abroad. This is the worst possible export/import scenario.
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Daylight3 months ago
America is world's # one wasteful nation, those who waste whatever the resources they have would finally do have to pay a heavy price. But the world is paying for the sins of American adventurism. Dismantling Israel and pulling out troops from Iraq would bring the oil price tumbling down.
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zimm3 months ago
What a brilliant comment [/end sarcasm]!!
Let's destroy a sovereign democratic nation and let the Arabs throw millions of Jews into the sea. (Nevermind that Jews have lived there for generations LONG before the state of Israel was even born in 1948)...
-- and THAT will solve our energy crisis!
Hmmm, why don't we just all convert to Islam, throw our women in burkas, and blow up our churches. Maybe that will appease the Islamo-fascists to cutting us a break on oil prices...
Gimme a break!
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mark-stevens3 months ago
Lets just say it's a perfect world...NOT. Throw the Jews to the Arabs!!
How about we stop funding their side of the war. they're not getting a free ride, maybe that's why gas is going up, war aint cheap!!
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slate3 months ago
((and THAT will solve our energy crisis!))
Yes!!! I've also researched what other benefits destroying Israel would bring forth.
It would cure pimples
You'd be able to eat and neva gain weight
All humans would be young and fit and never die
Halitosis will not exist if Israel didn't
All women & men will be gorgeous and fit
Hunger and poverty will be no more
But the best thing would be, folks that think like Daylight would have nothing to talk about anymore and we would have a little more peace and quite.
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BB643 months ago
Daylight, here's something funny when dealing with your people. Every time we pulled back you got more daring. Attacked our ambassador in 1979. We didn't do much. 6 months later, Iran took our embassy and held it for over 400 days. Marine barracks, 92 attack on the World Trade Center, US embassies in Africa. This list is endless. We've learned what the Jews did in the 1950's. When hit by an Islamic/Arab nation, hit them back 10 times if you want them to go away.
If you attack my country, you should pay. Attack New York, we turn Mecca into a lake of nuclear waste. Blow up a plane, the Blue Mosque gets leveled. Since you will use suicide attacks, why not simply use out superior weapons and end this once and for all. The US troops will stay any where they're needed. We will not be forced or bullied by a bunch of towel wearing terrorist cowards.
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Cityslicker3 months ago
Go suck a tailpipe , here we go again spin doctoring the high Oil prices . "It is our fault" , "we should be glad to pay $4.00 a gallon" and now trying to turn us into placid sheep like the Europeans .
Ride more mass transit , car pool , would be nice if everyone lived in the City , but guess what not everyone likes the tight confines of a City Dwelling , so some must drive rather longer distances to work than transit provides , spin doctor , this is America land of the free home of the brave , we like big cars and cheap gas , so give us what we want !
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slate3 months ago
WOw you hate a car?
Is it the room they have?
THe comfy ride?
The safe way you feel?
Or could it be that you don't have the means to own one?
Or is it because they use more gas and you feel that they are responsible for all our ill because once again the RICH has been mean to you?
Do you hate John Travolta's Jets and Big Al's Big House as well?
Others like SUVs why do they have to deal with what you want?
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BB643 months ago
Mark, then don't buy an SUV. If you want to buy some battery car, that's your right. If you want to take light rail or bus move to areas where that's possible but don't force that type of transport down my throat by raiding the transportation fund. Find a way for it to pay for itself.
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TOD3963 months ago
OK, I have to know. If Obama is elected, and the Congress is still held by Democrats, when can I expect gas to go back to 2.00 a gallon? If it is only the fault of Republicans, then what is the timeline for Democrats to solve all of our ills? I am still waiting for the Democrats to deliver on promises made before November, 2006. Remember those? "Give us the House and Senate and we will end the war and bring the troops home"
When people like you finally open up your eyes and realize that Democrats and Republicans work together, once elected, then you will also realize that it doesn't matter who is in office, you will still pay 5.00 a gallon for gas.
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slate3 months ago
OBAMA and the others will take over the oil companies and give us FREE gas,,,, well when there is any,,, you know how well the Gov does stuff
I think gas will eventually go down again,,,,, just a hunch after watching the price of oil drop after memorial day when many people stayed close to home,,,,, supply and de,and always work,,,,, we need to just stop traveling as much,,,,
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bill29363 months ago
Tcarros,
Do you remember what average for gas prices were in Jan 2007? Now what is the average today? In January 2007 the Democrats took the majority in the house and senate with one of their claims being they would 'do something about high gas prices'. Well it look like they did, they drove them even higher.
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truthiness3 months ago
philly has a decent public transit system,. but even so it doesn't do the job well enough. a national problem, our infrastructure.
our airlines and amtrak are overpriced and yet constantly on the verge of bankruptcy
our suburbs are designed around car transport
our roads and bridges are in disrepair from age
and our public is inadequate where it exits at all.
this is the first generation since the industrial revolution began to spend more time commuting than the prior. something which has always been a mark of progress.
(then of course theres the oil dependency and pollution things)
we can choose to try and shore up the outmoded transit infrastructure we have, or we can do something new. something bold.
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truthiness3 months ago
we should be building the most expansive and accessible public transit network in the world. powered by non-petroleum energy. government owner routes and networks, leased by private companies providing the actual transportation services and personnel.
replace amtrak and commuter planes with high speed magnetic trains, replace gas buses with electric trollies, increase the quantity and frequency of public transit routes in urban areas to such an extent that it is more convenient that automobile transit.
this would create quality jobs, spur green industry, lower cost of living, raise quality of living, lower pollution levels, decrease foreign oil dependency, and reunite little girls with their lost puppies.
we need to view difficulties not as indictments of our success that must be denied, covered, or fixed but as opportunities to adapt and develop tomorrow into a better day than today.
we are at crux in history on so many levels. what will we do?
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slate3 months ago
Houston was built over a very large area and we have mass transit that only goes to the areas around down town. We are pretty much toast in that area, since most of the available ROWs are full of 'full' freeways. They build a new freeway and only add one new lane to each side but 4 new toll lanes on each side at 2.50 for each booth that's about 5 miles apart. Before they talked us into the last toll way, they promised that once paid for with tolls, it would be free. Guess what, they raised the tolls after it was finished being paid for because, they had to pay for maintenance! Never ever believe that a 'charge or tax' the government says is temporary will ever go away. Can you say we need a Temporary income tax to help us pay for WWI and ge4t us out of our depressed economy?
Never trust what any party tells you, those that love Obama, I hope you do a better job than we did keeping W's feet to the fire.
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bill29363 months ago
With Maxine Waters and the Democrats talking about nationalizing the oil industry (taking it over and running it) You made a good point. Amtrak is basically a government run business and notice the shape it is in.
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slate3 months ago
Public Transportation only is as good as the system is,,,,, Why do we not have 300 mph trains that connect every major city in the US with stops at the smaller towns along the way so people can live where they want to live and decide to work in the big city 300 miles away if they want?
How well is AMTRAK doing guys?
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wildman65573 months ago
When there were oil shocks in the past, the price would go up and additional production would come on line and the price would go back down. That is not happening this time. Why not? Because the oil producers can't. We are at peak oil -- predicted by Hubbert 40 years ago. He hit the peak right on in the US and it looks like he hit the peak right on in World production too.
We were warned, but did we do anything? Oh no. No one wanted to improve transit or do anything else that would soften the shock. You suckers all deserve the prices (and much higher) that you are getting. You were warned.
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vor3 months ago
Having visited Europe quite a few times it is impressive to see how simple it is to get around using public transportation. Gas is nearly twice the cost there, much of it in taxes. But they seldom gripe.
We have no such transportation systems in my mid-sized town. Although there are city buses they only run to the poorer areas where they have been utilized for years, there is no option in the suburbs. Years ago it would have been quite feasible to build a train system between several cities that are located along a major interstate. Now when it is really needed it is far too late. We must begin to look at such alternatives and Americans must learn to use them.
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TheAttacks3 months ago
I take the bus whenever possible, but that's usually when I go into the city and park my car. I'm usually not near a bus line long enough to take advantage of the service.
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wtagg3 months ago
I see no progress with continuing the status quo. We need to remove the need for that type of technology and develop a replacement that is more efficient, affordable, and ecologically friendly. This would become a desired commodity world-wide, allowing us to export. Again, leaders, not followers.
Complaining about the congress of 2007 or the congress of 2001 will not improve things. Frankly, they both aren't worth their salt. One put us in this position and the other has been ineffectual at solving any of the current problems. We need to elect problem solvers, not problem creators.
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