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A Guide to High Gas Prices

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With gas prices ever increasing, here are a few ideas about how to prevent forking over your pocket book to the BIG OIL companies, and be greener in the process.

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Share Your Ride, Save on Gas, Meet Some Cool People

Denver Ridesharing on Craigslist

Link into the Craigslist community of other fellow ride-sharers and offer a ride and find yourself a ride. Just place an ad for where you are going or where you need to go, and find others who are heading the same direction.

SkiCarpool.org: Skiers Ridesharing

Team up with other skiers and snowboarders who like to regularly go to the same mountains as you do.

Don't Be Shy

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Believe it or not carpooling scares a lot of people, who are worried about freak encounters. Just use common sense, when carpooling and you will be surprised with the quality of people to meet. If your nervous travel with other people and screen your rides to make sure you feel comfortable.

Ditch The H2 or SUV

Despite the fact, we Americans are addicted to Large cars, there are a few changes you can make to reduce your contributions to greenhouse gases.  If you can’t ditch the your cars, try downsizing your commuter car to a smaller more efficient car.  This works great if you are a family and have one car that is much more used.

 

Don't Drive!

If high prices are getting to you, the cheapest option is… Stop Driving!  But like abstinence this option doesn’t work for most people. 

The Beast

Denver: Sorry No FlexCars

The largest car sharing company in the World…...brouhaha. Unfortunately, FlexCar doesn’t have a Denver operation yet. But the more demand we get for car sharing the higher the chance Denver becomes rideshare friendly. As Denver increases in size, our chances of that happening are getting better. Pass the word!

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Hitchhiking isn’t just for hippies. With the advent of the internets now yuppies can hitchhike too!

Gas Pricing Charts

Want some nerdy charts to back up your hunch that prices are higher.

Car Sharing Consortium

Resources CarSharing.

Carpooling: Always an adventure

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Who knows you may get picked up by a horse drawn banana cart or at the least have some interesting stories to tell your friends.

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