Promoting Telecommuting During the Gas Dearth?

Oren F. asks: "The President of AeroAstro, Inc., a small aerospace company, has begun promoting his employees to conserve gasoline during these times of high prices by telecommuting to work each day from their homes at least once a week. How is your company responding to the current situation?"

Comments

Use a bike

[GreatDrok]

I've been cycling to work for the last three months and it has been great. Some days I have to use public transport if the weather is really nasty but I am averaging about 80% of my travel by bicycle. Lots of health benefits, zero emissions, very cheap to run. I cover 12 miles per day, some hills but I hardly notice them any more and it only takes me 35 mins each way.

A quick calculation to show the current price of UK fuel compared with the US:

$3.00 per US gallon (seems about average)

£0.92 per UK litre (at my local Asda)

1 US gallon = 3.79 litres (1 Imperial gallon is 4.54 litres)

£1 = $1.82

therefore, UK price is currently $6.35 per US gallon.

The other day it cost me £5 more to fill my car than it had done three weeks previously when I last filled it prior to a trip to York. I dread to think what people driving big 4x4s are paying when my little 1.6 Alfa Romeo costs £42 to fill.

Re:Use a bike

[deranged unix nut]

I have had some luck exploring my way through business parks and residential dead end roads. Maps usually don't show them, but there are often walking paths and cutouts that bicyclists can use to connect between sets of dead ends.