Walking the Walk

With gas prices rising, it's really time for us to save some gas. No, actually it's a reminder for us to just save. Period.

I've ridden the MRT several times for the past months and availed of the P100 value card because there are places in the metro that are easily reached by using the MRT. Never mind that I sometimes get squished and cramped in a corner, jabbed by elbows and big bags. I'm surrounded by women anyway.

So it's either take the MRT for me or if that's not possible, at least make sure that all my errands are done systematically. I make sure that I have multiple goals in an area so that when I bring a car there, it's not a total waste of gas and time.

For the past days and nights that I drove, what I've noticed was that less cars were on the road, making driving enjoyable again. Local traffic I encountered in EDSA for the past days wasn't because of the quantity of vehicles but because of closed roads/lanes. But that's another story.

Oil price rising. We're all feeling it, right? Oh yes, we are. It's a Wednesday which means two more nights and the prices will increase again. With this in mind, I'm trying to save in other little and simple ways.

If there's anything in my lifestyle that I want to continue despite all these, I still want to be able to traverse EDSA in the middle of a Tuesday or a Thursday night. With MRT stations closed by the time I return, I drive on 80kph which according to Shell is the optimum steady speed that saves gas. So yeah in a way, I'm walking the walk that we should all be walking.