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Letter to You

The rising cost of gas is on everybody's minds these days. There's been little question for months now that it will hit $5/gal. by the Fourth of July. You may be asking yourself "how can I pay less for gasoline?" You may be doing things like over-inflating your tires, finally paying attention to your filters or driving slower and using cruise more often. I saw about gadget being sold that beeps when one drives poorly (like accelerating suddenly, rather than steadily or braking too fast). Are people buying these?

Don't answer that.

Car pooling is an old school way to save money on gasoline. You still spend money at the pump, but you get to divide it by 2, 3 or 4. That's not a bad way to go. Still, as I rode on the subway on Wednesday, I observed, as the train came above ground to cross the Longfellow Bridge, all the traffic driving into Boston was one person per car.