Cut Costs By Cutting The Car
Here's another interesting tale of a family that has no car at all. Only this family doesn't live close to everything in Ballard , and they've gone a lot longer than a year with no car. This Issaquah family has been car-free for almost 20 years .
The Petersons don't drive. They haven't since 1987. No one in the family has a driver's license. At 17 and 20 years old, the Peterson kids have never been behind the wheel.I have to say, that's pretty awesome. Cars cost a heck of a lot of money. My ideal solution would be to live within five miles of work so I can ride my bicycle every day. I'd still have cars, but they would be 100% electric. I'm not so much anti-car as I am anti-internal combustion engine.
As the rest of the country frets over the highest gas prices in history, the Petersons carry on as usual, biking, walking and riding the bus wherever they need to go.
"We're not anti-car," said Kent Peterson, 47. "We've just figured out that we don't need one."
When you read about a family like this, you can't help but realize that 99% of people that insist they just need their cars are really just unwilling to kick the habit.
(Sonia Krishnan, Seattle Times, 05.28.2006)
3 comments:
Right... and I know of people who insist that they don't "need" computers... or hospitals or even doctors. Really, nobody "needs" meat, and we certainly don't "need" to read, or even electric lights, or heat for our homes? We don't "need" to wear shoes, or to watch televsion or movies, do we?
We're in the middle of a social engineering experiement designed to change the way we think. Why would anybody do this? Once you're reliant on the gov't for your transportation, you won't really have a choice when you vote. Its a simple matter of socialism raising its ugly head.
I can't picture Nickels sneaking up on anybody.
Well, good for them, it's their choice, not something that is pushed on them by the government.
However, a daily three-hour commute doesn't sound much better than being stuck in traffic jams.
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