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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
^No doubt, I'd have a sleeping room arrangement.
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Exactly. A few years ago, I used to work at a research lab that's about 250 miles from my house. Got a place to stay close by (within easy biking distance), arranged to alternate working a week on site with a week telecommuting, and drove the Insight over the mountains, and overall probably used less gas in the course of a month than a lot of people who lived closer, but drove big cars to work every day.
Of course nowadays I've improved still further, with full-time telecommuting :-)
The point is that this has been a long time coming. Sure, there was a long spell when gas was around $1/gal (heck, when I got my first car, it was under 50 cents), but then it went to around $2, held there for a year or two, went to around $3... And even the 50 cent gas didn't stop me from driving an Austin-Healey Sprite instead of some muscle car.