Good for the environment, but there are ways to do good for the environment without putting millions into debt to help fuel and energy companies get record profits.
People using their cars less, or driving more economically is a good thing. It’s pretty noticeable on the motorways that there’s a lot more people driving below 70, and lot less people driving at 80+ than there used to be. However:
> A quarter of younger drivers said they had run up debt or turned to family or friends for help in response to higher fuel costs, the AA said. It said 16% of “family-age” (25-34) people had turned to loans or credit cards and that 14% had been supported by family and friends.
That’s pretty bad.
I just started driving more gently, more engine braking, coasting in gear, just let it roll downhill etc… Over the past month I went down from average of 4.5L/100km to 4.1L/100km.
Ever since I got my license 6 years ago I always coasted as much as I could.
I do wonder if there will be more people on bikes.
Mainly for shorter distance cross town trips.
Living out in the countryside where it’s a 24 mile round trip to buy milk and there is no public transport, it feels like lockdown no.3 (or 4?, I stopped counting).
We don’t go out anywhere anymore unless we have to. I don’t think any of us have gone somewhere other than work or school since the start of April. We rely completely on deliveries for food and everything else now to keep costs down.
I don’t think that mentally this is very good for us.
Prices are coming down here.
Weren’t prices meant to go down? prices are staying at £1.80 ish a litre but thats still insanely high
I did the switch to red diesel around 2021 saved a ton
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Good for the environment, but there are ways to do good for the environment without putting millions into debt to help fuel and energy companies get record profits.
People using their cars less, or driving more economically is a good thing. It’s pretty noticeable on the motorways that there’s a lot more people driving below 70, and lot less people driving at 80+ than there used to be. However:
> A quarter of younger drivers said they had run up debt or turned to family or friends for help in response to higher fuel costs, the AA said. It said 16% of “family-age” (25-34) people had turned to loans or credit cards and that 14% had been supported by family and friends.
That’s pretty bad.
I just started driving more gently, more engine braking, coasting in gear, just let it roll downhill etc… Over the past month I went down from average of 4.5L/100km to 4.1L/100km.
Ever since I got my license 6 years ago I always coasted as much as I could.
I do wonder if there will be more people on bikes.
Mainly for shorter distance cross town trips.
Living out in the countryside where it’s a 24 mile round trip to buy milk and there is no public transport, it feels like lockdown no.3 (or 4?, I stopped counting).
We don’t go out anywhere anymore unless we have to. I don’t think any of us have gone somewhere other than work or school since the start of April. We rely completely on deliveries for food and everything else now to keep costs down.
I don’t think that mentally this is very good for us.
Prices are coming down here.
Weren’t prices meant to go down? prices are staying at £1.80 ish a litre but thats still insanely high
I did the switch to red diesel around 2021 saved a ton