Re: Gas prices knock bicycle sales, repairs into higher gear

In rec.bicycles.misc joseph.santaniello@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On May 12, 7:39 pm, Dane Buson <d...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>> It does make me wonder, if a small bump in price to $4 is enough to
>> cause changes, how much would a real price spike change?  What would
>> people do at $6?  At $8 a gallon?
> 
> Gas is over $10 per gallon here in Norway. I don't have the reference
> handy, but recently I read that bikes account for less than 2% of
> commuters in Oslo, and the numbers were on the way down. If it is only
> 2% in Oslo, I'm sure it's way less elsewhere here.
> 
> Gas prices alone are not that im****tant for bike adoption, IMO.

But don't you have real public transit there?  Most of the US
is...challenged in terms of our public transit setup.  Do you know what
the relative percentage is that take the train/bus/walk vs. driving?

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