Gas prices to spike 4.5 cents per liter on Wednesday.

[SuperCharge]

It is, your free to spend to go to Tennessee or where ever else to buy cheaper gas. Free to trade your car in for a bike or hybrid or a horse/buggy.

Yah you're hilarious a-hole. Obviously you don't drive! And just because you think you're so smart right, that it doesn't apply to you because obviously you don't drive, or are you a horse that you eat grass in the pasture because guess what? because of gas to get delivered, food that comes from all over,(yes even tennessee) all by transportation and transportation is fuel pal, everything is going up.

Basically its gonna cost more to eat and then maybe you will feel the crunch.

 

[CapitalGuy]

Yah you're hilarious a-hole. Obviously you don't drive! And just because you think you're so smart right, that it doesn't apply to you because obviously you don't drive, or are you a horse that you eat grass in the pasture because guess what? because of gas to get delivered, food that comes from all over,(yes even tennessee) all by transportation and transportation is fuel pal, everything is going up.

Basically its gonna cost more to eat and then maybe you will feel the crunch.

You are snarky but correct. We have built a nation (a continent) around the car. An underlying assumption is that moving around, by car, is affordable. If gas comparatively this expensive in the 1950's, North America would look a lot more like Europe - cities with amazing public transport and built in concentric circles around a downtown core. Canadians and Americans would live in apartments and condos instead of massive houses with 4 bedrooms, a deck, etc.

But we don't. Instead we have had 50+ years of urban design built around suburbs and cars, built around the underlying assumption that it would be affordable to move cheaply by car. So, the current spike in gas prices is hard for most people to swallow. They don't live downtown; they don't live on (accessible and free-flowing) public transit. That's why the current price spikes are so difficult for most North Americans to swallow, and we can't simply flip a switch and change our urban layouts overnight.

 

[gimmedub]

Time to get on a diet

Yah you're hilarious a-hole. Obviously you don't drive! And just because you think you're so smart right, that it doesn't apply to you because obviously you don't drive, or are you a horse that you eat grass in the pasture because guess what? because of gas to get delivered, food that comes from all over,(yes even tennessee) all by transportation and transportation is fuel pal, everything is going up.

Basically its gonna cost more to eat and then maybe you will feel the crunch.

 

[SuperCharge]

Time to get on a diet

Yah you're only kidding right now but wait til it happens. Wait until your paying 10.00 for a chocolate bar.

 

[SuperCharge]

You are snarky but correct. We have built a nation (a continent) around the car. An underlying assumption is that moving around, by car, is affordable. If gas comparatively this expensive in the 1950's, North America would look a lot more like Europe - cities with amazing public transport and built in concentric circles around a downtown core. Canadians and Americans would live in apartments and condos instead of massive houses with 4 bedrooms, a deck, etc.

But we don't. Instead we have had 50+ years of urban design built around suburbs and cars, built around the underlying assumption that it would be affordable to move cheaply by car. So, the current spike in gas prices is hard for most people to swallow. They don't live downtown; they don't live on (accessible and free-flowing) public transit. That's why the current price spikes are so difficult for most North Americans to swallow, and we can't simply flip a switch and change our urban layouts overnight.

Exactly. Funny thing is, I don't see our pay going up though.

 

[Buick Mackane]

You are snarky but correct. We have built a nation (a continent) around the car. An underlying assumption is that moving around, by car, is affordable. If gas comparatively this expensive in the 1950's, North America would look a lot more like Europe - cities with amazing public transport and built in concentric circles around a downtown core. Canadians and Americans would live in apartments and condos instead of massive houses with 4 bedrooms, a deck, etc.

But we don't. Instead we have had 50+ years of urban design built around suburbs and cars, built around the underlying assumption that it would be affordable to move cheaply by car. So, the current spike in gas prices is hard for most people to swallow. They don't live downtown; they don't live on (accessible and free-flowing) public transit. That's why the current price spikes are so difficult for most North Americans to swallow, and we can't simply flip a switch and change our urban layouts overnight.

Good points. :thumb:
As individuals we can change this by choosing to live closer to work and shopping closer to home like our grandparents did. We'll need a bigger spike in gas prices to shock us. So far our society isn't changing as a whole at all, and I don't expect our leaders will lead the way.

 

[CapitalGuy]

Good points. :thumb:
As individuals we can change this by choosing to live closer to work and shopping closer to home like our grandparents did. We'll need a bigger spike in gas prices to shock us. So far our society isn't changing as a whole at all, and I don't expect our leaders will lead the way.

The problem is that only some of us can do this. It is not reasonable to expect that those Canadians who currently live in the suburbs can move into apartments downtown or on public transit. Even if they want to, our country is not built properly to allow them to. There aren't enough apartments, and our cities aren't designed to allow millions of people to abandon their houses in favour of vertically-integrated lifestyles.

 

[Buick Mackane]

The problem is that only some of us can do this. It is not reasonable to expect that those Canadians who currently live in the suburbs can move into apartments downtown or on public transit. Even if they want to, our country is not built properly to allow them to. There aren't enough apartments, and our cities aren't designed to allow millions of people to abandon their houses in favour of vertically-integrated lifestyles.

True, but instead of looking at the big picture think of what you can do as one individual. Can you live closer to your job, maybe even work out of your home? I don't think most people even ponder for a second if they can live totally without a car.