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- eMximeR, on 07/02/2008, -3/+169For those who don't want to flip through 11 pages
1. Globalized Jobs Return Home
2. Sprawl Stalls
3. Four-Day Workweeks
4. Less Pollution
5. More Frugality
6. Fewer Traffic Deaths
7. Cheaper Insurance
8. Less Traffic
9. More Cops on the Beat
10. Less Obesity - inactive, on 07/02/2008, -2/+46less obesity IS a stretch - or worse - you start working at home where the fridge is
- Jpardue, on 07/02/2008, -9/+53Why would I like anything about $4 gas... I didn't even like $2 gas
- PSotter, on 07/02/2008, -3/+41OK. I might get dugg down... or I might start a good conversation.
Suburbaninzation, or "white flight" from the cities to the suburbs left urban areas largely "ethnic" (to borrow the euphemism).
Re-urbanization will be the reversal of this.
I live in a suburban area where property values are dropping dropping.
I can afford to move to the city, where vast swatches of neighborhoods are being "gentrified" (made more white) and becoming prohibitively expensive.
Economically disadvantaged people (read: African Americans and Hispanics) will be pushed out to the fringes.
How do you think this will play out socially? - swordedge, on 07/02/2008, -0/+36I have never seen more money spent on developing alternative fuels than today. This is directly a result of $4 gas. The list doesn't mention research
- borez, on 07/02/2008, -3/+351 Thing You will Like About $4 Gas, it'll be cheaper then when you reach $10 Gas.
Also the insurance being cheaper thing...Don't agree. As soon as insurance companies start to lose money from lack of demand, they'll push the loss the customers way. - fluidfoundation, on 07/02/2008, -0/+30Forces innovation, which we're pretty good at when pushed.
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -0/+28I think it is ironic that the Chinese are beginning to drive cars and we in the western world might have to start riding bikes lol
- ironeus, on 08/01/2008, -6/+33less obesity is kind of a far stretch. It's great the public resorts to public transport and that it's at a 50-year high. If you were sitting in a car and now sitting on a train or bus it doesn't necessarily mean your lifestyle or eating habits change.
- vancanucksfan, on 07/03/2008, -5/+31I love $4 gas. Less traffic for me to cruise in my large SUV, with my rap music blastin' and all the hot bitches admiring my mad boss-ness.
- spoogieking012, on 07/03/2008, -1/+27i wanna know who is getting 4 day work weeks cause it certainly isn't me
- YoWhatDaFuxUp, on 07/03/2008, -2/+2411 pages wtf
- cheezintern, on 07/03/2008, -1/+21Well, I'm forced to ride my bike to campus and to buy food, which means my beer belly gets smaller with the greater exercise, which means I'm able to consume more beer.
- xcheats, on 07/03/2008, -2/+21Would you stop ***** comparing gas prices in the UK to the U.S.
I thought it was stated in a million god damn articles. The UK has a completely different infrastructure than the US. You CAN bike to work in most cases in the UK. You CAN opt to take public transportation. And finally if you do want to drive somewhere in the UK, more than likely its a ***** closer than if you wanted to drive somewhere in the US. Considering the size of the UK is less than 1/30th the size of the US.
Sorry but if I hear one more moron comparing the price of gas in the U.S. to that of some country in Europe, I'm going to explode. It makes no sense at all. - Jonaas, on 07/03/2008, -1/+18Looking on the "bright side" of this is fine, but in the end we're still getting robbed and taken advantage of by greedy, and manipulative corporations.
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -2/+17What I like about high gas prices is it seems to have jogged some people from their slumber to actually pay attention to what's going on around them. The PTB controlling this may have overstepped their bounds. While the population is still quite docile and apathetic, I doubt it will be so once we start climbing towards the $10/gallon mark. Something about people having to decide between eating and having cable TV/cheap beer will certainly get the average joe a bit more involved.
- wille1623, on 07/03/2008, -0/+15I can sit around and play World Of Warcraft with a legitimate excuse not to go out.
- KibibyteBrain, on 07/03/2008, -0/+13I think that view is naive. Just because you don't go into the office does not imply a day off. Many Americans already on the 5 day week schedule can spend several hours of the weekend working, if from home.
- sleepyjjk, on 07/03/2008, -2/+15If only 4+ dollar gas made the government improve public transportation.
That would be such a boon. Yes, the 10 things listed are good, but having better public transportation would also significantly help most of those 10 things. - Skooma714, on 07/03/2008, -1/+13Yay more cops to extort money from me.
- xcelx1023, on 07/03/2008, -1/+14I like this many -----> 0 , things about $4 gas.
- shauntacular, on 07/02/2008, -10/+2311. It's not $9.90 like in the Netherlands.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/gas1.htm ... - rootsm3, on 07/03/2008, -1/+12Read the article and I still don't like $4 gas.
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -0/+11It sucks when you attempt to do the right thing by taking Public Transportation, only to get shafted.
I was waiting for the bus yesterday down to the University of Washington, and they couldn't fit anymore people on the bus. I don't know how many students were late for class, but this was a major route less than 5 miles to campus.
At least it showed up on time though. - inactive, on 07/03/2008, -1/+12Gas is one of our cheaper liquids, even though we use it so much more than any liquid. Comparing it to other "liquids" is a stupid ***** argument. Do you buy 20 gallons of Gatorade a week?
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -0/+10I think we should work 4 day work weeks regardless of petrol/gas prices ;) I've done it before and I liked it very much.
- jrburkh, on 07/03/2008, -1/+11Stupid argument and tired of hearing it. When I can fuel my vehicle with Gatorade, then I'll be concerned with how much it costs per gallon. Next time you fill up with ten-plus gallons of Gatorade let me know and we'll talk.
- IMJGaltstill, on 07/03/2008, -0/+10The phenomenon you mentioned combined with the demolition of all but three of the metro Atlanta areas housing projects seems to be having a great effect in the Urban areas. Places that were desolate five years ago are starting to teem with life.
- danharlow, on 07/03/2008, -1/+11When life gives you lemons, try squeezing lemon juice into your dumb ass Chevy Tahoe.
- ashamedgorilla, on 07/03/2008, -3/+13Here's 11 things you can hate about this article: 11 pages.
Seriously? Why the ***** do you need more than one or two pages for a list of ten items, let alone eleven pages! - chrissku, on 07/03/2008, -3/+12The only thing I like about $4 doillar gas is when it becomes $2 gas again.
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -3/+12High gas prices = add to recession. What worthless reasons should we like?
- andy314159pi, on 07/03/2008, -0/+9Right but pretty soon there will be many, many more bikes on the road and your local DOT will figure out ways to make it work.
- yuanzhoulu, on 07/03/2008, -2/+11personally i would prefer working 5 day workweek and taking off 3-4 weeks more vacation per year. gives me the time to actually get to off-the-beaten-path travel destinations and go on adventures in the middle of nowhere.
just my preference. - fluidfoundation, on 07/03/2008, -1/+9Additional elitist comment!
- snapcase, on 07/03/2008, -2/+10Honestly most of these seem just like a desperate attempt to be optimistic. $4 gas wouldn't be so bad if the rest of our economy could actually support it. The Fed keeps printing more and more notes devaluing the dollar even more, while gas prices soar due neither to supply nor demand but due to mere speculation. The higher gas prices drive up the prices of damn near everything else and give fuel to political fires with, as usual, questionable motives. And in all this do wages increase to reflect the rest of the market? No. People still make the same dollar amounts they used to even though that dollar is worth less than it has ever been before. $4 gas prices are not good. Quit trying to look on the sunny side of ***** and accept the truth.
- PSotter, on 07/02/2008, -0/+8I lived in a city where I used to have to walk to the metro station about a half a mile each way. Another half mile to work. I was walking, at least, but it was wayyyyyyyy easier and cheaper than hailing a cab. It's all about the easiest choice. Also, there were VERY few obese people in that city (Caracas, Venezuela), in spite of easy access to cheap food.
- jrburkh, on 07/03/2008, -1/+9Yeah, let's sit on our asses and submit comments on Digg all day instead!
- alex7575, on 07/03/2008, -1/+8Agreed,
You can run/workout all you want, but if you keep eating the way you usually do, not a workout in the world will be help you burn so many calories...
The key in beating obesity is not in exercising (wouldn't hurt a bit tho) but in the diet. I have friends who complain about how they "starve" themselves and never lose weight, their "starving" meals were about a time and a half the food I believe a regular person should eat.
Oh and Brian, if you're reading this, eating a huge full size spicy burrito for breakfast every morning won't help your waist line, and next time you come into my office and lift your shirt to ask me if you look like you lost weight, I swear I'm going to HR and tell them I'm suing for sexual harassment. - blackhappy, on 07/03/2008, -0/+7When I moved to London and relied on public transport instead of a car I lost about 75 pounds in two years. When I moved back to the states I gained it all back. Im now back in England and have lost 35 pounds already. Like SVOboy stated public transportation doesn't drops you off at your home or destination. Not to mention walking to do all the mundane things like grocery shopping, going to the mall and all the other places we go in cars and don't think about.
Daily schedule:
Half mile to bus station
Half mile from bus stop to work
(thats 2 miles round trip per day)
Plus all appointments I had to attend and all though I caught a bus I still had to walk to get to the appointments.
On Average I say I walked 3-4 miles a day, 5 days a week.
- thatsmyaibo, on 07/03/2008, -0/+7Where is the list of reasons why $4 gas is raising prices of everything while jobs are being lost and ruining the economy just so CEOs can fill their pockets?
- cheezintern, on 07/03/2008, -2/+9I don't know about fewer traffic deaths... In my experience of riding my bike everywhere, since our infrastructure isn't built for bikes and pedestrians, you have to dodge cars at every intersection...not to mention the people that just don't pay attention when they drive their gas guzzlers around. I wouldn't be surprised if 5 years from now, research finds much greater traffic accidents due to cars hitting bikes..
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -0/+7"Something about people having to decide between eating and having cable TV/cheap beer"
See that is the problem. Higher gas/oil prices will lead to less consumer confidence & demand for those luxuries. Therefore causing a recession and lost of jobs. - xcheats, on 07/03/2008, -1/+8I'd like to see the return and reform of the railroads instead of the completely inefficient ways of trucks all over our highways.
- BradMajors, on 07/03/2008, -4/+11Inaccurate article. $5 gas where I live.
- Greddypooh, on 07/03/2008, -0/+7This can be seen easily in Europe. Paris, for example is filled with rich 'traditional French' read: whites. The suburbs (the banlieu) are filled with French of African or Muslim descent. It is much less expensive to live outside of Paris proper, but as you describe the area is filled with an 'ethnic' population and has been the center of riots and violence in the recent past.
- MrMongoose, on 07/03/2008, -0/+7...but it's a hybrid! It gets 18mpg highway now!
Still can't believe Chevy was trying to market that *****. - xcheats, on 07/03/2008, -1/+7
You're the probably hundredth person I've seen trying to compare the cost of gas in the US to the cost of gas in the (INSERT EUROPEAN NATION HERE). You can't do it. It doesn't make sense. It's like comparing the gas mileage of a Honda Civic to that of the Space Shuttle. Its nice for ***** and giggles but in all seriousness you have two totally different applications of gasoline or a petrol derived substance and it follows right along with you trying to compare the price of gas in the US to that in the UK. You have a landmass that's more than 30 times smaller and you're comparing your gas prices to ours? Even if you did drive a long haul everyday, great, in a nation like the U.S. where goods are shipped across the nation everyday, some even the UK, you can't compare the gas prices without looking at the average distance traveled by those consuming it. - olddirtycr, on 07/03/2008, -1/+7This just in, world doesn't revolve around BradMajors.
- SVOboy, on 07/03/2008, -0/+6Sitting on the bus or train is sitting, sure, but the bus/train doesn't ride up to your front door, like you car does. I know plenty of people, and have experienced myself, going to countries where public transit is the only transit. Walking 25 minutes to school each way was definitely more work than driving 25 minutes each way, :)
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