Let's not forget the drop in demand for gas guzzling SUVs and large trucks and a shift toward more fuel efficient vehicles, which also means less garbage pumped into the air over the long run. (And maybe less debt, since the bigger vehicles are usually more expensive.)

I walk two blocks to work...and I'm in pretty decent shape. I very frequently walk or ride my bike around town to do my errands. I'd like my $1.75 a gallon back please.

That would be nice, but it isn't going to happen for quite a while, if ever.

I would rather ride my bicycle to work than work from home too often. I fail at the whole "work from home" concept I cannot limit hours (start earlier and finish later), have too many distractions, the dogs often provide commentary to conference calls, and the biggest work problems I have ever had all seem to have started when I worked from home.

I have seen more people on bikes. Saw a large woman riding her bike to McDonalds last week.

The roads are supposedly less traveled over in Orlando. The tolls are down. Bus ridership is up.

The roads seem busy in my town. And the mall has been pretty busy. It makes me think people are shopping here in town instead of heading down the interstate.

Another advantage. People are really thinking about alternatives to gas. Where is my hydrogen powered car? Where is my solar car?

I'm still wondering where the hell my flying car is.

I almost mentioned that. We can't drive them on the roads well. No flying cars for us.

Judging by some of the drivers here, I don't think they'd fly them too well either.

I'm getting a scooter and parking my 5.7 Liter Chrysler except when I need to drive the dog and/or fiancee somewhere. 80 mpg sounds like a damn good plan, IMO.

I need to pump up my rear tire and get some new brakes

you should fail everyone who drives their car to school, coyotemike.

The ones who don't live on campus all live about an average of 30 miles away in other towns. Somehow I don't think that would work.

Actually, this article really prompted a discussion with my Mom over the phone tonight about whether or not I should even get a car once I go the mandatory 6 months without seizures to get my license back. I mean, granted, I'm planning on moving about 1700 miles from here in February or so, but even still...with a bike, in Denver, where, if you bundle up, biking would only be hazardous in the rare occasion that the temps dropped down into the single digits. And even then, there's always the bus, or, with the money I'm sure to be saving, a cab if I just want to get home ASAP.

I've heard that Denver is pretty bike-friendly. In the summer, that is.

But their bus system is supposed to work quite well.

Their bus system is very, very good, from what a couple of the members on this site tell me. I lived there four years, but I literally walked to work all 4 years of those. I had it easy, and I don't think I'll get quite that lucky the second time around.

The summers are gorgeous, just the occasional monsoon-like rainfall that they're known for in late spring/early summer. That aside though, I've heard that Colorado, Denver included, actually has more than 250 sunny days a year. Very bike friendly in any case, but if that's true, then all the more so.