In the photo: fuel price list including a bicycle on 1 of the fuel stations in Bydgoszcz, October 2021.
For the time being, it is not yet apparent that the public has stopped utilizing cars excessively. There is inactive quite a few traffic on the roads, fewer on bikes, and no more people are transported by multicars and trains. It can so be concluded that the price is not yet excessive.
The easiest way to reduce fuel consumption is by infantry. It does not require any effort, but possibly to work on your own physical condition, which will affect your health. An average man, without much effort, can easy beat a fewer miles. Thus, in cities of 10 to 20,000 inhabitants there is no sense in utilizing cars. Today, even in smaller, thousands of cities, any of which can drive a car to a store. The regular ride of children to schools has besides become notorious. You utilized to just go to school. Since the first grade of primary school, children went to school on their own, even though in 1990. The overall crime was advanced and the children did not have mobile phones. Now there is simply a fashion to drive children to school due to the fact that it is expected to be little safe on the roads. but it's a vicious circle, due to the fact that driving kids to school just increases traffic and danger on the roads, and it's in places as delicate as the streets by the schools.
Another simple way to reduce fuel consumption is by cycling. The average man, besides without much effort, is able to easy cross the distances of 20 km. Wind, rain, snow – no trouble, just dress properly. all day's movement will improve our health. In more civilized countries cycling besides in bad weather, bicycle traffic is large and fewer people on regular commutes quit the bike through the weather. In areas without collective communication, the bike is simply a common way of moving between villages and is the only 1 so accessible to individual without a car – despite the deficiency of bicycle paths and the deficiency of large-town bike fashion.
Another way is collective communication. In many areas it is not at all, but where it is, it should be utilized more widely. Increases in fuel prices will translate into increases in ticket prices. These are already in the air, but they have not yet occurred – yet there is no increased request for buses, trams and trains. Even after increases, collective communication will proceed to be comparatively cheaper (in addition, the cost of driving is not just fuel costs). The usual Autosan H9 smokes 18-20 l / 100 km, so already with 4-5 travelers it falls in terms of burning more favourably than a private car usually filled only by a driver. In large cities, it doesn't truly make sense to usage a car erstwhile there's public transportation. To all large city, including all provincial one, there are long-distance trains – so there is no point in driving between them. In smaller towns, too, we should take collective communication into account erstwhile planning movements. Sometimes you gotta wait up to 2 hours, sometimes you gotta get on the bus moving around, but you can and it will be more beneficial for everyone. If there were actually more travellers on buses, it would be possible to reduce ticket prices or to start more flights. alternatively of demanding a simplification in fuel prices, people should request more collective communications.
Another way to reduce fuel consumption is to drive. The average filling of a passenger car is 1.2 people, which is usually the driver himself. This is highly inefficient, not only in terms of fuel consumption, but besides occupying space on the streets and bandwidth. You can organise yourself in a variety of ways in common travel to make more efficient usage of usually a 5-man car and reduce fuel costs per person. You can only give a ride on a selected section or a small detour to get more people. You can be organized through the network. In all workplace, in all university or another place there should be signs with lift notices.
There are besides combinations of all ways. We can take the bike to a train, to a city bus, and sometimes to an extra-urban bus. The car and the bike can be placed at the stop, even if there is no halt and drive. You can besides support yourself with taxis as a complement to public transport. besides various bus+PKS, etc. We should only usage a private car as a last resort.
The negative effect of advanced fuel prices will be to translate into an increase in the prices of all products, including the first need. Capitalists will inactive usage this, and increases may be higher than the fuel price increase. The full economy is dependent on car transport, but this is due to the deregulation of the economy and mediocre state transport policy. For example, the Polish Post completely abandoned the railway, and the Polish State Railways themselves ceased the service of tiny broadcasters specified as sawmills.
However, if we consider advanced fuel prices solely for the usage of a private car, their increase is not yet a tragedy. Passenger cars are highly harmful to all means of transport. They contaminate the environment, make noise, are dangerous, the roads take up plenty of space and interfere with the landscape, standing cars jam pavements and squares. Traffic is already happening in 10 1000 cities, which is 1 of the images of the collapse of Poland.
If we usage the car only under the truly essential circumstances, it will be a good result. All you gotta do is quit selfishness and your own space in the car to convert to common space on pavements, buses and trains. Don't rush at all costs, just relax, due to the fact that it's time to travel anyway. We all have a simplification in car traffic that would do us good, and since this has not yet happened, seemingly fuel prices are not adequate of a barrier. I'm certain there's nothing to teardrop your clothes apart.
