Someone here, a while back, wrote:
> it is necessary to make driving more costly and inconvenient
> to the drivers
So now we know: it might look a little bit like this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/business/09gas.html
[...]
But the pain is not being felt uniformly. Across broad swaths
of the South, Southwest and the upper Great Plains, the
combination of low incomes, high gas prices and heavy dependence
on pickup trucks and vans is putting an even tighter squeeze
on family budgets.
Here in the Mississippi Delta, some farm workers are borrowing
money from their bosses so they can fill their tanks and get to
work. Some are switching jobs for shorter commutes.
People are giving up meat so they can buy fuel. Gasoline theft
is rising. And drivers are running out of gas more often, leaving
their cars by the side of the road until they can scrape together
gas money.
The disparity between rural America and the rest of the country
is a matter of simple home economics. Nationwide, Americans are
now spending about 4 percent of their take-home income on gasoline.
By contrast, in some counties in the Mississippi Delta, that figure
has surpassed 13 percent.
I guess it's having a good outcome: people are eating less meat.
:~/
/jordan