Could we lower gas prices by shutting down all these buses and commuter trains?

Question

A lot of these city buses only get a few miles to the gallon, so if you want to know where our oil is going, the answer is pretty clear, isn't it? And they take up so much space in traffic, too! And then we have to wait for them when they stop to pick people up.

Answer 1

Are  you serious?  Is this the kind of logic they teach in schools these days?

What would happen if we shut down buses and trains and everyone on them drove their own cars instead?  Oh, of course, they wouldn't drive, they'd stay at home so that you can have the road all to yourself.  lol

Answer 2

I hope you're kidding...

What we need is more buses and more people riding them.

Say a bus get's 10miles per gallon with an average of 30 passengers.  Each of which, if not for the bus, would be driving getting about 20miles/gal on average?  Not to mention the resources saved on car maintenance, production, recycling.

Do the math...

That is 20times more than them riding alone.  And, more importantly THE EMISIONS

Most people just say, if I take the bus and don't drive I can save $100 a month in gas.  They never ad the 15cents/mile on average the car depreciates.  Or, the 20cents per mile in costs to the roads, production, recycling and other resources.

Answer 3

E-mail me.  There are many ways to stop a bus or train....

Answer 4

lol, i see in many cities that the public transportation runs off of bio fuel and other means of alternative fuel.

i think we should up public transportation such as europe. I would have no problem riding a train to work it it was more easily accessable.

Answer 5

Just the opposite.

We could use less fuel by using buses and commuter trains.

A person traveling alone in an economy car is using more fuel than 50 people on a bus or hundreds of people on a train.

Consider this.  Take a bus that gets 5 miles per gallon. It uses .2 gallons per mile.  Moving 50 people this figures out to 0.0004 gallons per person per mile.

Your car gets 35 miles per gallon. You are riding alone.  You used 0.0285 gallons of fuel to travel a mile.

The people on the bus are using 0.0004 gallons of fuel for each mile they travel

You alone in your car are using 0.0285 gallons of fuel for each mile you travel.

You tell me who is wasting fuel?

Answer 6

Okay.  I realize this question is just bait, but I'll answer it anyway, and let my 'Best Answer' percentage slip a little.

Suppose you shut down the busses and commuter trains.  Because they have a higher ocupancy rate, they get much higher passenger-miles per gallon than any car (and especially better than a Hummer, if that's what you drive).

So now all those people who took the bus or train have to get where they are going somehow.  How do you propose they do that?  Walk?

No.  They'll find some POS that spews bad stuff into the air and gets terrible fuel mileage (because it's all they can afford), and drive (single occupancy, probably).  

That would clog up the roads even more, slowing everybody down, making us all late commuting in stop-and-go traffic, and using even more gas than we do now.  (Unless you have a hybrid, you get zero miles per gallon while stopped.)

And that's ignoring the fact that trains run on diesel, and most busses now run on CNG, so they are not competing with cars for fuel.

Answer 7

WHERE DID YOU GET YOUR EDUCATION?!!?!?!  You better listen to Mad Jack.......people like you are why we are in this mess anyway.....cant think and dont care

Answer 8

We need to use those Star Trek transporter pod things.  You know someone's invented them, and they're sitting in the same warehouse as the Ark of the Covenant.

Answer 9

Mad jack is right

youre pretty far off track if you think getting rid of busses will help with fuel costs.

Answer 10

No, if we all left our hummers (or even our coopers) at home and took the bus (or better yet walked or biked) we would be using a LOT less gas.

It is clear that all the gas is going into the tanks of the trucks that deliver the goods that we get into our cars and drive down to the walmart to buy every weekend.

Did you go to a Memorial day parade, did any helicopters or jets fly over the spectacle? What do you think goes into those tanks (and who PAYS for it, by the way!).

As long as you continue to see people driving ecalades and hummers on the highways the gas prices will continue to go up because the oil executives are still getting the message that to the "real Americans" (the ones with money), the gas hikes still really mean nothing more than water cooler fodder.

When one of these corporate yuppies actually has to cut something out like an afternoon at the goldfcourse because of high gas prices THEN you will see  it level off for a while (it will NEVER go down).

Anyway, buses are a good thing and can help us all save  money on gas, as can car pooling and getting off our fat butts and walking places every so often.

Answer 11

I think, they should run on Mc Donalds used oil.

It would kill two flies with one swath

Answer 12

The only thing that is going to bring down gas prices would be our government imposing a fine of $500k per day on the oil companies for every day they are gouging the American people.  Heck, they are already under investigation for price fixing.  If gas can sell for twelve cents a gallon in Venezuala, then it shouldn't be $4 a gallon here.

Answer 13

If you humans would just jog

The price of gas would fall like fog

I like busses.  They never go near the vet.

Ffft!  Ffft!  >:<