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10-11-2011, 07:55 PM
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Get a bike.
My SR50 sips at gas. A North Burnaby to Downtown commute 5 days a week only costs me about $6-7 in gas. That is about the same as 1 day on transit.
Keep the car, but just drive it in bad weather.
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10-11-2011, 08:05 PM
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#77 | | Who's naughty? I___i
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Originally Posted by Culverin  Get a bike.
My SR50 sips at gas. A North Burnaby to Downtown commute 5 days a week only costs me about $6-7 in gas. That is about the same as 1 day on transit.
Keep the car, but just drive it in bad weather. | you ride even when it snows? ...
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10-11-2011, 08:13 PM
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#78 | | I *heart* Revscene.net very Muchie
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Originally Posted by Rotary_Rage Glad I moved to Alberta, woke up to 109.9 for regular at the pump, our premium right now is cheaper then B.C.'s regular (121.9) |  paid 153.9 a few days ago for my car....
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10-11-2011, 08:15 PM
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#79 | | Hypa owned my ass at least once
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Originally Posted by Rotary_Rage Glad I moved to Alberta, woke up to 109.9 for regular at the pump, our premium right now is cheaper then B.C.'s regular (121.9) | I would kill for 121.9., $139.9(ish) is the norm in the lower mainland now.
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10-11-2011, 08:19 PM
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#80 | | Fathered more RS members than anybody else. Who's your daddy?
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Glad I get my gas from Abbotsford. $1.24. Closer to $1.20 with Superstore Superbucks. I hope Abbotsford stays out of range (GVRD).
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10-11-2011, 08:19 PM
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#81 | | My bookmarks are Reddit and REVscene, in that order
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Originally Posted by Szeto you ride even when it snows? ... | No, last year, we had the snow stick on the ground for a while. So I played it safe and stayed off the bike for about 2 weeks (maybe a little less).
Otherwise, I'm pretty much riding unless it's coming down in sheets or below zero. I take the skytrain otherwise. Even at 50cc, my off the line acceleration and strategic lane changes, I'm usually the one waiting for traffic, not the other way around. You're going to get pulled over before you can max it out in the city.
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10-11-2011, 08:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Culverin Get a bike.
My SR50 sips at gas. A North Burnaby to Downtown commute 5 days a week only costs me about $6-7 in gas. That is about the same as 1 day on transit. | scooter =/= bike  | |
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10-11-2011, 08:28 PM
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#83 | | I told him no, what y'all do?
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bike lanes and now this. i want to give gregor one of these 
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10-11-2011, 08:28 PM
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#84 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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I'm more angry at gas company not lowering price when crude oil price drops but jacks up the price as soon as crude oil price goes up. also jacking up price on long weekends?  | |
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10-11-2011, 08:31 PM
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#85 | | Even when im right, revscene.net is still right!
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Well, looks like Texaco in Blaine will get even more of my business now.
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10-11-2011, 09:49 PM
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#86 | | Rs has made me the woman i am today!
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dump the carbon taxes now as i do not see any value in it...
if someone tells me that tax helps in building the new bridge to replace port mann...so help me, i'll bitch slap you back to the stone ages...
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10-11-2011, 09:55 PM
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#87 | | NEWBIE ACCOUNT!
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Originally Posted by Szeto you ride even when it snows? ... | It barely snows here. And when it does, drive the car instead of the bike. Quote:
Originally Posted by hongy paid 153.9 a few days ago for my car.... | Man I hear ya. Honestly, prices here in BC are ludacris and people should not be content with them. Alberta is cheaper, and it isn't even refined there so the disparity shouldn't be as large as it is. Leverage the market arbitrage going across the border to get gas is now the only reasonable alternative. And that is far for alot of people.
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10-11-2011, 09:58 PM
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#88 | | NOOB, Not Quite a Regular!
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10-12-2011, 03:55 PM
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#89 | | RS controls my life!
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Originally Posted by JesseBlue dump the carbon taxes now as i do not see any value in it...
if someone tells me that tax helps in building the new bridge to replace port mann...so help me, i'll bitch slap you back to the stone ages... | Fuckin this.. It's going to be a toll bridge for like 40 years at like 4$ a day or something ridiculous. I'm getting to the point where I really want to get rid of my car because of all the money it's costing me. But I work in a very industrial area where the buses don't run when I have to start work and I'm not a god damn machine capable of biking 15 kilometers there and then doing it back after an exhausting day of work. So getting rid of my car is not an option and there is no fucking car pools at 6 a.m. and I doubt that a nightbus is going to run to where I work even after this. I'm at the point of seriously considering protesting some of the bullshit us vancouverites are getting smacked onto our laps. that port mann bridge costs 2.2 billion dollars. That stupid arena we just built cost what, 800million? And it will maybe be entirely full 3 times for the time it exists? We coulda stuck with the old one for another 15 years and used that money for things that actually matter. This carbon tax is even a bigger waste. Maybe if they're struggling they should make the sea to sky road a toll road since that gathered quite the heftly tax payer price tag.
Days like this, when it costs me 50$ to fill up a fucking econoshitbox are days when I miss living in Alberta where it was nearly half that to fill up for 2 weeks, normally 30$(94 cents when I moved, it went up by 10 cents immediately after crossing the boarder).
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10-13-2011, 07:26 AM
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#90 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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Was talking to co-workers yesterday about this..
Can anyone confirm that they PASSED the plan to construct the Evergreen Line??
1 co-worker has been following this topic (lives close to North Road) and he said, they have passed the tax, and are starting to collect money... but they haven't passed the Evergreen Line yet..
Meaning that they are just fucking stealing money now for no purpose. Why am I paying another gas tax for nothing?
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10-13-2011, 08:37 AM
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#91 | | MiX iT Up!
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where does abbotsford start? and where is the first gas station?
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10-13-2011, 09:40 AM
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Originally Posted by tiger_handheld where does abbotsford start? and where is the first gas station? | The east side of Safeway on Fraser is where you'll start finding cheaper gas. Posted via RS Mobile | |
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10-13-2011, 10:01 AM
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#93 | | Rs has made me the woman i am today!
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Someone needs to send a reporter in to see where and how this money is being spent.
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10-13-2011, 01:23 PM
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#94 | | Even when im right, revscene.net is still right!
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WE DONT TAKE TRANSIT
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10-14-2011, 07:21 PM
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#95 | | To me, there is the Internet and there is RS
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last time I filled up I paid $1.01 a liter... but I live in Alberta.. haha
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10-14-2011, 07:55 PM
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#96 | | I answer every Emotion with an emoticon
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I love how the government's solution is always to increase revenue. Have they ever considered reducing spending?
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10-14-2011, 07:57 PM
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#97 | | RS controls my life!
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yall niggs aren't understanding that the point of this is to get people out of their cars and on mass transit. If you go to work downtown and live like a block away from a bus stop that will get you to work in about the same time then you should take the fucking transit. Our roads are incredibly congested and we need less car traffic or else we will have to continue expanding roads lane on lane. The car is becoming more and more useless as public transportation becomes more and more accessible. Right now you can get from the airport to newton for 5$. It will probably cost that much in gas to make that trip. And if we all start using public transportation for our commute then less money will be sunk into road construction which is an insanely expensive system and a very time consuming and difficult task. Now if gas is getting a hike then I'm going to be less encouraged to drive to work, then I'm going to start using the bus which will probably save me a decent amount of coin and will save the energy and cause one less car on the road... Although I drive a delivery truck for employment so i'm going to be out there anyway, and Buses don't go to my workplace at my time so it doesn't really help me much.
I'd really rather drive to work as it is more comfortable and faster. But this city is heading in a more green progressive perspective. It's trying to become the Canadian New york city. Trying to reform everyone into a passenger instead of a driver. Unfortunatly this doesn't pan out well for the suburbs.
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10-14-2011, 08:04 PM
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#98 | | I answer every Emotion with an emoticon
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^ exactly. There's no alternative. It makes sense to implement heavy taxes if driving is a luxury, like for ppl in downtown core. However, for many of us regular folks, housing prices have already forced us to live further and further away, making driving a necessity and not a luxury. Tax luxury for all I care. But increasing tax on necessity is just wrong.
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10-14-2011, 08:51 PM
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10-14-2011, 09:07 PM
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#100 | | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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Originally Posted by Everymans Fuckin this.. It's going to be a toll bridge for like 40 years at like 4$ a day or something ridiculous. I'm getting to the point where I really want to get rid of my car because of all the money it's costing me. | Have you ever calculated the gas it takes you to creep along Hwy. 1 in traffic from 200th all the way to the bridge? Before you diss the toll, try looking at how much it costs you to NOT move along the freeway the way it is now (or even was before the construction started.
Living in Pitt Meadows, working in Langley, my wife GLADLY pays the $5.20 (both ways) toll ever day... because taking that route saves her over $10 in gas every day (and the more gas prices go up, the more she saves).
And what is your time worth? My wife's commute via Port Mann was over an hour each way... with the Golden Ears, it's 20 minutes. Surely you have better things to do than sit in traffic for two hours a day?
Try to think about what all this is supposed to accomplish before you whine about the couple of bucks it costs you for the convenience. Then if it's still not worth it... take the Alex Fraser or the Patullo, and enjoy your time in traffic.
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