Saving Gas Without Mods

[Frank Lee]

I've said it before... the first time gas hit $4, the streets got much quieter and there were many more bicyclists.

For all of a week.

Then even though gas was still $4, it was back to business as usual- drivin' three blocks for cigs in Silveradopes.

[user removed]

The first gas crisis was WW2.

regards
Mech

[nemo]

Voluntary gas rationing proved ineffective and by the spring of 1942 mandatory rationing was needed.

Somethings don't change.

By the end of 1942, half of U.S automobiles were issued an 'A' sticker which allowed 4 gallons of fuel per week.

Four gallons per week can you imagine, people would freak.

Rationing on the US Homefront during WW II

[Frank Lee]

Back then people walked.

[The Other Andy]

Originally Posted by Frank Lee

Back then people walked.

Or choose from one of many other transportation options.

[Xist]

Originally Posted by Frank Lee

I've said it before... the first time gas hit $4, the streets got much quieter and there were many more bicyclists.

For all of a week.

Then even though gas was still $4, it was back to business as usual- drivin' three blocks for cigs in Silveradopes.

I bought my bike once gas hit $2 a gallon. I still need to make a trailer for it, then I would have a grocery-getter!

Hmm...

[darcane]

Originally Posted by Frank Lee

Just wait until you realize how much money and time this frees up. You will come to wonder how you ever put up with long commutes in the first place. You will also wonder why anyone would. I guess people are just used to it, or resigned to it.

When I had a long commute (averaged 1:15 each way), I tried carpooling with a couple groups. It cost me so much additional time every day that I determined it wasn't worth the fuel savings. Inevitably we had to wait for people to show up and we had to spend time dropping people off when we got there and then rounding everyone up when we left. It ended up taking longer than just driving myself alone in my car. And if I rode my motorcycle, there was a HUGE cost in added time with a small savings in gas.

[Xist]

It would be interesting if you determined that riding your bicycle was faster than carpooling.

[Frank Lee]

I selected my residence after making my career move; one criteria was to be within easy bicycling distance. Partly due to a nice bike-friendly short-cut, bicycling the commute was within a minute of the same time as driving it.

[elhigh]

Originally Posted by nemo

Somethings don't change.



Four gallons per week can you imagine, people would freak.

Rationing on the US Homefront during WW II

If the quota is four gallons per week per wage earner, my wife and son and I would be able to sell some of our quota, as we all ride together and only use about a gallon a day.

Just like the industrialists, you KNOW some savvy carpoolers and hypermilers would turn a paradigm like that to their benefit, because they would have capacity to spare and turn a buck on.

[edit]
Actually we would qualify for a B placard for an 8 gallon per week quota, as the wife in her job generates a tremendous amount of recycled textile fiber and sells it along. In a wartime paradigm they'd want her doing that, more and faster.