Letters to the Editor
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I confess
My driving habits are changed very little by the price of gas. I drive a small car, and would like to get a hybrid (when our current car dies). My wife and I drive to work together, which is only a few miles away. But really, shopping and going to work necessitate getting in the car. I don't live in a city with good public transport.
I like to hope that high priced gasoline encourages long-term changes that might not show up for a while. Decisions about where to live, and what car to drive, that only months and years of high-priced gasoline will cause. But I think most people are like me in that the vast majority of their driving is non-elective. We don't take many vacations. We don't go out "to the country" for a drive. I simply don't have any other way to get through my day, and it would be exceedingly difficult to decrease my driving.