Are the rising fuel prices *driving* you to make different choices for transport?

"I'll never recover financially from this" - every American conservative

it'll just drive up the cost of food etc as its all virtually transported by ICE vehicles.

I'm in the UK for the past week.

I note that petrol has increased in price at a local garage during that time by 1 penny per litre.

I am lucky enough to WFH pretty much full time nowadays, but if I do have to go anywhere then I'll still be driving.

I live in a town an hour from Dublin so while there are some private coach services, they only go to the city centre which isn't much use if I needed to go anywhere else unless I wanted to spend the whole day switching and waiting for services. Public transport isn't cheap either!

Locally there's no service to speak of and as I live on the edge of the town, it would be a good half hour plus walk to the shopping centre, or pay for a taxi - again not cheap.

Public transport is grand if you live in the cities or have simple A-B journeys. Not so much for anything else.

I don't cycle and it wouldn't help anyway with the longer journeys.

Buying an EV won't be happening either - massive upfront expense, and no driveway to charge it on anyway. Plus the notion that this option will be a lot cheaper long term is a fallacy. When enough people have switched over, the motor tax rates will surge and there'll no doubt be some sort of equivalent "fuel" costs to charge it just as with ICE vehicles - petrol stations won't be going out of business, and all that increased electricity infrastructure will have to be paid for.

Thankfully still working from home, but my commute to work would be a 35 minute walk to the train station, 10 minute train journey and another 15 minute walk after that vs about 20 minutes in the car. Not really worth it.

Working from home for the last two years thankfully. My journey to work was 88km to work each day (there and back). Two years ago I was spending €200 per month on petrol. I shudder to think what it would cost now. The car is now used for trips around town, bringing the 5 year old places and a trip down to Kildare about once a week.

very much all stick and no carrot. until there are viable alternatives for everyone (not just large city dwellers) then the govn should reduce their taxation of fuel

There's no option in the poll for people that don't use cars. I set my life up in a way that I don't need to own a car, I can use a bike to get to work or take public transport.

As stated already in this thread fuel prices will hit even us Green heroes who don't drive through food prices etc., so there's no escaping it.

Dream on.. if EVs are ever widely adopted, we'll soon see a whole new taxation landscape surrounding their ownership & use. Electricity has never been cheap in this country.

I live in a well connected central enough suburb in Dublin and the fuel prices don't seem to be affecting people much, every school around here is still a total traffic mess in the mornings and afternoons. I think we'd need to see prices go way higher for people to start actually driving less if that's even an option.

Unfortunately for many the options are limited.

The school the kids go to, the job commute etc. were chosen at say €1.20 litre and will most likely not change due to price.

They will just pay up and cut back on other expenditure.

Maybe long term they will make better decisions based on price.

One thing not in the poll,

but I have the flexibility to reduce my time on site each week and WFH more often.

Since the pandemic began I have been going on site anywhere from zero days to 5 days a week.

At the moment I'm only going in 2 days a week because as fuel is becoming more expensive, and my commute is at least a 40 minute drive each way, I'm making the decision to forego time on site in favour of saving on fuel expenses.

Hopefully my employer will afford me the option to do that going forward, but that's not guaranteed by any means.