Imagine it costing more to live farther away. Isn't that anti-American?
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Fuel Prices Shift Math for Life in Far Suburbs (New York Times)
“Living closer in, in a smaller space, where you don’t have that commute,” he said. “It’s definitely something we talk about. Before it was ‘we spend too much time driving.’ Now, it’s ‘we spend too much time and money driving.’ ”
Across the nation, the realization is taking hold that rising energy prices are less a momentary blip than a change with lasting consequences. The shift to costlier fuel is threatening to slow the decades-old migration away from cities, while exacerbating the housing downturn by diminishing the appeal of larger homes set far from urban jobs.
The working class will be the ones to pay for "them people" to keep living large. We would not want them to have to resort to cutting back now would we?
ReplyDeleteSeriously, why not reward those of us who make an effort to help out in this kind of energy cruch.
Whatever happened to some of the ideas from back in the day; late 1970's when there was a gas shortage, car pooling and other kinds of self help educational ideas that ran on "TV".
That all must sound real old.....