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The only way to get around the cost of gas is to do the village mantality kind of lifestyle choices...grow vegetables in the yard, use a bike and have safe bike travel a necessary part of transportation planning....make manufacturing and work places the "village" around which housing exists....thinking needs to change so people are near woek and the work is near the markets.We are told food costs are rising with the fuel costs....they wouldn't if the food was grown locally instead of being from a different continent. All the brain power going into business and politics, couldn't anyone think about the outcome of the actions they took to make themselves rich.The food could stop moving and then the rich would abandon this country and move to another where they could live in luxury while what they destroyed sinks in the quagmire!How about air travel? With computers keeping track of everything you would think that the number of nearly half empty planes flying could be reduced. Set a window for a flight time and crunch passengers from two flights into  one....save gas....save on polution....save on crowded airspace. Politicians are arguing about people having the right to keep chickens in their yards and have clothes lines.....do they really need to debate on every little thing so the rich can have the last say.....Oh the rich....contributed so little...took so much and showed only self interest.