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Friday, May 23rd 2008 @ 7:16 AM    post viewed 794 times

I am a 36 year old father of two young children (8+7 year olds) and husband.  We are, by statistical account, pretty much your typical American family.  My wife is a homemaker and drives our kids around all day after school, and I have an office 5 miles away from my home.

My driving is about 90% "in town" and 10% longer distance (the occasional day trip or business meeting).  I live in a town, not a city, so the roads are well paved, not too crowded, where the average speed limit is about 30-40mph.

I am, by driving habits, pretty typical.

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Darell Dickey
Free Access		Darelldd said on Thursday, June 12th 2008 @ 6:10 PM:

I have one word for you:

Bicycle.

Five miles to work? Kids? All can be done by bike. Maybe not year-round like we can do it here, but certainly for half the year, I'd imagine. The other half could be done by EV... if we just had them. It is seriously crazy that we burn ANY gasoline for "around town" trips that are MOST trips in the US. We drive cars with 500-mile range - range that is needed maybe once or twice a year. We've gotta be able to do better than this!

For the record, I bicycle more miles than I drive ANY car. My regular commute is 23 miles each way. My daughter either rides her own bike to school or rides with me on the back of our tandem. I used to pull her and her neighbor friend in a trailer, so we had a 3-person "bike pool" there for many years. My wife commutes 20 miles (each way) every day in our EV. We own a Prius as our secondary long-range car. It is driven about once/month.

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