by Joseph Malek

Created on: September 02, 2007   Last Updated: July 10, 2008

Like it or not, in the true spirit of economics, nothing but the air and love is free, but we can wish and hope and dream about a time in the future when some kind person is willing to transport an old person to the doctor's office or take that person to the food store, or some other place where they have to go in order to stay as healthy and as alive as possible.

Public transportation will never be free in the truest sense of the word. Sure, there are some places where you don't have to pay for the ride after you get on the bus, but you surely do pay for the bus and the driver each time you pay your Real Estates taxes, sales taxes and any other fee that your local politicians require you to pay.

Then again, because of the rising price for gasoline more and more people are riding those Public modes of transportation to and from work, even if they have to drive their car to a nearby bus or train station in order to use that service.

So too, even if you never ride on those buses, you are paying some part of the cost to provide that service to the public. In real life, there is no free ride for anyone.

I suppose that the next best way to get around is by bicycle, motor cycle or a scooter, none of which is a safe way to travel during a rain or snow storm. However, one or more of those three will be your least expensive way to get around. No doubt, the cost to buy your two of three wheel mode of transportation will most certainly rise because of the increased demand for such transportation. As I write this story many scooter shops have already sold their available inventory and they have a waiting list for orders that have yet to arrive.

Be that as it may, there is no doubt in my mind that those cheaper modes of transportation will contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gases that are causing global warming. You better believe that we all will pay a much higher price if all of those places on Earth where ice exists, but is now in the process of completely melting away, is allowed to continue because each of us are not willing to change the way in which we live.

Maybe that is why the elected politicians of our Country and the other World leaders are doing nothing to prevent or stop the extortion being committed by those huge multinational oil companies. I myself wonder if they even care about the people who placed their trust in a group of people who are supposed to maintain the safety and well being of all of us.

These days, Public transportation is not the safest way to go anywhere. Street crime is at its highest level. The members of violent street gangs are everywhere, as well as thousands of homeless people who are desperate, and looking for their next victims. Your cheap ride on a bus could cost you tens of thousands of dollars of medical expenses and maybe even your life.

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