How are you coping with or planning to cope with the high gas prices?
Carly Pearson
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Melissa Windsor
Emporia
If we (my family) travel by car in the summer for a vacation it will keep us closer to home.
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Kirstee Stever
Emporia
There’s not much you can do about it but drive less.
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Erin Livingston
Emporia
Bringing my lunch to work so I don’t have to make a trip out for lunch.
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Sarah Burke
Emporia
Buy a horse.
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Lynette Olson
Emporia
I was thinking about getting a scooter but I’m accepting them (high gas prices) as part of life and paying the prices to do what I need to do.
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Emeline Holland
Emporia
I’ve been biking to work.
carly7 (anonymous) says...
It's CARLY not Carley.
May 20, 2007 at 10:33 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
bridge96 (anonymous) says...
I've been riding my bicycle to work. I'm saving money and getting in shape!
May 21, 2007 at 9:24 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
daveedailey (anonymous) says...
What a sad country we are!! We could be buying Venzuelian oil and only paying $.12 per gallon. Talk to the people in the Northeast states who are now buing their fuel from other sources. These states went around the Bush administration. The people up there could not live with the prices of our fuel oil because that is what they heat their homes with. We, in Kansas should do the same thing.
May 21, 2007 at 10:28 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
bdprotheroe (anonymous) says...
To "bridge96" - I'm glad to hear you are using your bike as much as possible. Yes, save the planet, save money and get into shape!
Alternative energy is the solution. True, the immediate effects won't be seen for a few years, but this solution is what we must grasp onto and encourage. We, as Americans, can no longer rely upon familiar energy reources. We must always keep our minds open to new and better ways of living.
How long ago was it that the Flint Hills were considered as a prime location for wind turbines?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_tur...
There was opposition to implemention of this plan from many within the community. While this opportunity and its product might not replace the need for fuel for cars (but, who knows what scientists could generate in the future), it will provide the opportunity to greatly cut back on the need for foreign resources. I was just in Palm Springs this past weekend, and it was an awesome sight to see the wind turbines in the desert just outside the city limits. Two years ago, I drove across Wyoming. There, too, wind turbines are being put to use.
On a sidenote, think of the revenue that would come into the state of Kansas from other states purchasing the energy produced by these wind turbines.
Brian Protheroe
San Francisco, CA
May 21, 2007 at 12:39 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
daveedailey (anonymous) says...
Kansas, especially here, is very backwards. Yes, the plans for wind turbines should have been implemented a long time ago. We could use them right here in Lyon county. I have seen all the ones in California. I thought it was a very unique and wonderful sight. Of course, if we had the chance for such a field here in Lyon county the rich would bitch! I guess we just have to be content paying higher and higher rates for electricity as well as gas!!! By the way, I have a field on the highway outside of town, an ideal spot for turbines.
May 21, 2007 at 1:09 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )