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I agree with what your saying, alot of people made this sacrifice for their children. At one time renting a 2 bedroom apt. in the LA/Orange Co. area was around $ 1200. a month when inland you could buy with a low down and $800-900 a month for a 3-4 bedroom with a yard.
Hoping that jobs and better infrastructure would be created in those communities in the future so you wouldn't have to commute. Never happened and alot of people are moving back to the Cities, but in this economy it's harder with falling home prices and fewer jobs.
But that doesn't seem realistic.
US people are entitled and choose to have big houses outside of the area knowing that they're going to have to drive an hour or more to work. Choices, choices, choices.
Why not consider starting a bus company? Not you personally, of course. But if there's a need, someone should be able to figure out and meet the need. I could never understand why CA had such bad public transport and love of cars.
Why not start using Craig's List for carpooling?
If we need to live in apartments to be closer to work, we need to do that.
Gazillions (hyperbole) of people with children live in apartments. It doesn't kill them.
Oil prices are set by commodity trading, not the oil companies. Enviromentalist share part of the blame for the current rise in oil prices. Their policies restricting where oil companies can drill in USA and preventing new refineries from being built has caused us and much of the world to rely on oil from troubled regions of the world. When trouble happens in those countries, oil speculators panic at the potential reduction or stop of oil coming from those countries causing the price of oil to rise. Enviromentalist should want oil drilling in America instead of in third world countries. Drilling in USA means companies must use employee safety equipment and obey enviromental protection regulations by using special proceedures and equipment,...things not required or used in many of these troubled areas. Oil companies pay their rig workers very well and with good benefits,...pay and benefits so good that unions never took hold in the industry cause they weren't needed. Perhaps that's why Democratic party doesn't like oil drilling here in America,...no union dues to be funneled to their re-election fund. Don't drill off the coast of Florida,...but Castro gives China permission to drill off the coast of Florida. Will Cuba and China use enviromental protections off the coast of Florida that American companies would be required to use if they drilled there? HELL NO!
Oil is not a dwindling resource. That is a total myth. Who is telling you that?
Industry experts now believe that the earth is constantly producing oil. The old "dinosaur theory" has long ago been rejected. New finds of oil have been huge, and we keep discovering more.
Further, we have more oil here in America than all of the Middle East combined, we are told, and we now have new processes that will allow us to extract the oil that is in the Dakota's (I believe that's where it is... I forget ... I just heard about this the other day on the news)
We are an oil rich nation.
We will never not need oil. There is nothing to replace it with, and more products come from oil than you can imagine. Without oil we would be back to the dark ages. Oil is the fuel that drives our industries, and quite literally, our life style.
Obama is hurting his country by preventing us from obtaining and developing our own reserves. He is in violation of a court order to end the ban in the gulf, and his attitude and policies are completely wrong, and short sighted. The sooner he is out of office the better. The man is a joke.
What on earth have you been smoking? Oil is absolutely a fossil fuel...(You need to stop reading World Net Daily)
1. Oil is not an infinite resource.
2. Remaining supplies of oil should be used wisely.
3. Alternative sources of energy need to be brought on line soon.
I drive 40 miles a day just to take kids to and from school--I usually have at least one more extra trip with sports practices. We love where we live, so we take turns carpooling kids with friends/neighbors (we don't have school bus service) and drive fuel efficient vehicles. If the situation changes, you have to change with it.
Not me. I am driving a $500 1993 Honda Civic and getting 30 mpg in the city. My commute is only 7 miles each way. I don't mind gas prices climbing if it mean less people driving SUVs and AWD vehicles. Shrug.
When I was growing up, our family of five was in an old VW bug and a Mustang for many years. Later on the family cars were a tiny Subaru coupe and a wagon. And if you can't fit your family into a Mazda 3 wagon, then your kids need to lose weight.
Oil is a dwindling resource, but the recent drastic hikes in prices are almost solely due to the Libyan and Egyptian conflicts. They probably will rise higher and then crash once the Libyan crisis is over, assuming that Iran or Saudi Arabia do not have experience similar instability. If they do (and I honestly don't think Saudi Arabia will), you may see pump prices skyrocket.
We have hundreds of years worth of oil within US boundaries but the goventment has had it inexcessible. A POTUS who wanted the USA to maintain its exceptionality would not be working as an obstruction to accessing it while intently researching/developing future energy sources.
Meanwhile the Saudies are talking about ramping up production. Do we want to keep sending our wealth and the lives of our young men and women overseas because it does not fit Obama's agenda to "Drill Here/Drill Now" ?
The Fed is playing a role in pushing oil and food prices higher. We can either sit back and take it or fight the far left cronies and Obama with every legislative and judicial means available!
I think it's hysterical how you keep rambling on about "choices" in this thread, when you want to FORCE your "choices" onto everybody else in other threads.
Gotta love that raging hypocrisy!
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Who is struggling with the high gas prices ?
