MPG's or Drive Less?

[DifferentPointofView]

I would bike, and I have biked to where I can get grocieries and things, but it just takes too long.

a 25 mile trip there and back during the summer is just not worth it where I live. And I can't do anything about moving to a better location that's closer to the conveniences right now. You can say all you want, but in my current situation, biking isn't a feasible option. Getting meat or milk, then biking 12 or 13 miles back isn't gonna cut it.

Plus take into the account that I haven't had a bike since I was 13, so Anytime I bike anywhere I have to borrow it.

[skyl4rk]

I don't need a car at all, at least, I don't need a second car in our family. I walk or bike to work, and have all the services I need within a mile or so.

It is a dilemma, that most of the miles on my car are there because I find it fun to hypermile. Most of the miles are done joyriding with no destination in mind.

The best I can say is that my aeromod experiments might help someone else out who does have to drive.

I believe the most important transportation decision is to live near where you work and near where you shop/recreate/meet with friends. The price of gas can go up or down as it will and it will not affect me, other than by causing inflation to the things I buy.

[DifferentPointofView]

^ like I said, I can't really just up and move in the situation I am in right now. When I stay the night at a friends house in the town I work I walk to work. or, if we need to get food and stuff, we take his Geo. But otherwise I gotta drive.

[wagonman76]

I would bike, and I have biked to where I can get grocieries and things, but it just takes too long.

a 25 mile trip there and back during the summer is just not worth it where I live. And I can't do anything about moving to a better location that's closer to the conveniences right now. You can say all you want, but in my current situation, biking isn't a feasible option. Getting meat or milk, then biking 12 or 13 miles back isn't gonna cut it.

Same here, as much as I would like to bike, it is just not feasible here. 25 miles one way up and down a lot of pretty fierce hills. Moving is not an option because Michigan is saturated with foreclosed houses and nobody is buying here unless you're a wealthy CEO or retiree looking for a fancy vacation house on the lake. I could get a deal on another house but can't afford two mortgages. And changing jobs is not an option, jobs are pretty thin pickins here anymore and I am thankful to still have a job with the company I have been with for over 10 years. When I was a kid I used to bike to town all the time with the same fierce hills (from glaciers) that make up this part of the state, but that was 5 miles away and was still something that I had to work up to.

So I do try to minimize trips and make my time between fillups go as far as I can. If I have to go to the store, I will go on the way home from work, which reduces my overall mpg but saves having to drive 20 miles round trip to the store from home.

I prefer the local roads over the freeways whenever I can, I get better mpg due to slower speeds and less wind. And at least here, the local roads make the trip a bit shorter because they were here first and are more direct. The freeway snakes all over the place to miss what was here to start with.