Quote Originally Posted by Coelho
Well... IMHO, as a inhabitant of another country, i think people from usa spends WAY too much oil/gas/whatever. Most people owns a car, and drives it to everywhere. Even to go to a place 1/4 of mile far, they prefer drive to there instead to walk to there, or ride a bike to there, or take a bus, or whatever.

I am a heating and air conditioning contractor... I can't not drive. Am I supposedto tell my customers that they have to bring their broken furnace to me?? or...am I supposed to ride a bicycle 30 miles each way, while totin a couple hundred pounds of tools and spare parts??

Yes there are a lot of folks that drive these behemouth SUVs back and forth every day just to take little jonny and suzie to school because they don't want them to have to ride the *FREE* school bus. There are a lot of kids out crusin burnin gas too... In rural farming communities like I live in, there is no public transportation. The incomes are low, andthe prices of *EVERYTHING* keep rising because of the cost of transportation. It just makes it a lot harder to keep the wolves at bay, and take care of your family.