A Month of Trimet VS Driving

As I forced myself to eat yet another bowl of soup so that I could take yet another pill, I read through the magazine Time, ignoring all the boring articles. One opinion column spiked my interest: fix the problems with the Middle East countries by making the countries less important. However at this moment in time they are quite important because we like our oil. The journalist explained that we ought to increase gasoline taxes to majorly discourage oil usage, hence making the Middle East feel smaller and less significant.

It's an interesting concept, but it got me to thinking about when I was riding public transportation instead of driving. I actually did the math to figure out what I saved by riding to school 5 days a week.

Approx 530 miles I didn't drive.

Approx 24 gallons of gas I didn't use.

To me that seems like a lot. I only rode Trimet for a little more than a month. This does not include the numerous bus rides to babysitting, the store and to friends houses.

You know what I think? I drive too much. And honestly? I don't really care for driving anyways.