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So Ive noticed working minimum wage isn't really worth it if you have to drive more than 20 mins to get there

s'called Petrol

and since you live in LA, driving 20 minutes usually means 5 miles or less

Dartma wrote:So Ive noticed working minimum wage isn't really worth it if you have to drive more than 20 mins to get there

Try living in a country where gas is $9 a gallon instead of $3

borrowed wrote:

Dartma wrote:So Ive noticed working minimum wage isn't really worth it if you have to drive more than 20 mins to get there

Try living in a country where gas is $9 a gallon instead of $3

it's $4 here now.... the horror

knell wrote:

borrowed wrote:

Dartma wrote:So Ive noticed working minimum wage isn't really worth it if you have to drive more than 20 mins to get there

Try living in a country where gas is $9 a gallon instead of $3

it's $4 here now.... the horror

Yeah I always find it funny when people next to me at the pump are bitching about $4 gas. I know its all relative, but a forum full of Europeans is probably the least sympathetic audience you could ask for.

i doubt most europeans need to drive nearly as much or as far as we do, though. you have much better mass transit over there.

here it about $1.30AU a litre duno how that measure against your currencies and in gallons

Just took my daughter to a birthday party, and it hit me, it just cost $6 to get here, and it's going to cost $6 to get back. If we took mass transit, it would have been a day trip. I don't know... Oh, and I saw my first chevrolet volt on the way over there.

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Also remember when I was in LA, I had to give someone these documents by the next day, so I drove a little over 6 miles in rush hour traffic. Realized as I was sitting there, it would have been far cheaper just to overnight fedex the docs... Think on that one.

nowaysj wrote:
Also remember when I was in LA, I had to give someone these documents by the next day, so I drove a little over 6 miles in rush hour traffic. Realized as I was sitting there, it would have been far cheaper just to overnight fedex the docs... Think on that one.

Or jog!

I'm genuinely thinking of selling my car just because petrol is so outrageously expensive these-days, just 2-3 years ago it was less than a £1 a litre and now its like £1.30 a litre at every petrol station near me!

Gotta love Americans complaining about petrol prices.

I thought this was going to be about gas :\

20 KUNA for a BALLOONA

apmje wrote:Gotta love Americans complaining about petrol prices.

well if you have to drive to go literally anywhere outside of your neighborhood, its pretty important. the country was designed around the car, everything you need is miles away for most people who dont live in the city

ruckus49 wrote:

apmje wrote:Gotta love Americans complaining about petrol prices.

well if you have to drive to go literally anywhere outside of your neighborhood, its pretty important. the country was designed around the car, everything you need is miles away for most people who dont live in the city

too true. for instance, my school has two campuses that are about 8 miles apart. sometimes i need to go from one to the other in a half hour. that is simply not a possibility on a bike or by taking the bus.

pompende wrote:

ruckus49 wrote:

apmje wrote:Gotta love Americans complaining about petrol prices.

well if you have to drive to go literally anywhere outside of your neighborhood, its pretty important. the country was designed around the car, everything you need is miles away for most people who dont live in the city

too true. for instance, my school has two campuses that are about 8 miles apart. sometimes i need to go from one to the other in a half hour. that is simply not a possibility on a bike or by taking the bus.

motorbike! easily done!

pompende wrote:

ruckus49 wrote:

apmje wrote:Gotta love Americans complaining about petrol prices.

well if you have to drive to go literally anywhere outside of your neighborhood, its pretty important. the country was designed around the car, everything you need is miles away for most people who dont live in the city

too true. for instance, my school has two campuses that are about 8 miles apart. sometimes i need to go from one to the other in a half hour. that is simply not a possibility on a bike or by taking the bus.

yea gotta love how shitty public transit is in most non major metropolitan cities, yet it's always encouraged.
ie: last job took my an hour to get to via biking but well over say an hour and a half (not including transfer times) via the bus, couple that with bus service abruptly ending at around 9pm around where i live made some long ass walks whenever i worked closing shifts
then again a lot of people bitching about gas prices are the same people who won't walk/bike to a place within a 2 mile radius even on a beautiful day

true, there are a lot of suburban neighborhoods surrounding the city where biking is practical, but most people choose not to. however, a large chunk of the population lives in sprawled out suburbs (which used to be farm land) where the only way out of your neighborhood is a 35 mph road with no bike path. So no one really does that because its pretty dangerous.

that's what shoulders are for, i do loads of rural riding hoping this year to do the ride on the erie canal path which is both on a path and road to buffalo and back, but yea there are loads of people who drive to a place a couple blocks away who bitch due to their laziness