Gas prices, what's the real answer?
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We sold the old jalopy last year and now happily walk, ride the bus, our bikes, or the occasional taxi.
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You guys are still in AK, right?Moxie wrote:We sold the old jalopy last year and now happily walk, ride the bus, our bikes, or the occasional taxi.
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Still in AK, yeah. It certainly makes things, erm, interesting from November to May. Everything is really, really really spread out with large chunks of woods in between, and the buses run very limited routes with limited hours. Unfortunately, as metropolitan as Anchorage has gotten (way more than you're picturing, I promise), it's not going to support major public transportation for a long time to come, because there are just too many people here that camp/fish on the weekends and need their vehicles to do so. I mean, a lot of people live here *just* to enjoy the outdoors on weekends. We are going to always be an independent vehicle state to some degree.
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Got a better perspective, thanks to Google Maps.
Of course the independents could get solar-powered cars...oh, wait....
Other than moose, you guys get much marauding critters over there?
Of course the independents could get solar-powered cars...oh, wait....
Other than moose, you guys get much marauding critters over there?
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I have never seen anything other than moose and birds here in town, though I've lived here for 27 of my 29 years, but we do have wolves and bears. Enough for the city to strongly urge the residents to use bear-resistant trash cans.
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