ADAPTATION

For those who are having difficulty making ends meet because of the escalating price of gas, it is necessary to be practical and pragmatic, creative and adaptive, intelligent, rational and logical.

If you absolutely need a vehicle to get to work because it's too far to walk or ride a bike, there's always a motor bike, motor scooter, moped or small motorcycle. If it's raining, you'll need a poncho.

If work is within walking or biking distance, ten or twenty miles, that presents a great opportunity to get in shape and lose weight. If you think it takes too long to walk to work, you might start walking or biking at 5 AM. Some people are adept at roller skates, roller boarding or scooting.

People are used to shopping in cars, driving several miles and doing a week's worth of grocery shopping in one day. If you can't afford the gas, walking or biking to the grocery store can be done in daily increments. Only buy what you can carry rc drone

walking, biking or skating. Doing this every day is like what most people do in the rest of the world. Just think, you don't have to carry water from the public well. People are lucky to be able to afford food and clean water at all. We Americans are very lucky.

Similarly, people usually take a car to the doctor, and she will diagnose overweight, high blood pressure, elevated sugar and cholesterol. That's called the 'metabolic syndrome,' (the latest trendy disease), and the offending obesity can literally melt away by walking more. As long as you are walking to the doctor and to the grocery, you might as well pass up McDonald's, because stopping will slow you down and make you heavier.

By avoiding fast food emporia, you will have extra money to buy gas for your moped for an occasional pleasure ride. You can also save money by not going to the movies, because the temptation to fill up on popcorn will be avoided.

By taking these practical steps, you will also slow global warming, so that your great, great, great, great, great grandchildren will not have to move to higher ground because of the rising oceans.