adampreston.com » Politics http://adampreston.com how I roll Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:35:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 One Cabbies Approach to Energy Conservation http://adampreston.com/2008/07/09/one-cabbies-approach-to-energy-conservation/ http://adampreston.com/2008/07/09/one-cabbies-approach-to-energy-conservation/#comments Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:38:48 +0000 admin http://adampreston.com/?p=7 I was on my way to work earlier this week, riding in the back of a taxi cab from downtown Saint Paul to the Minneapolis airport.  As we were nearing the airport the cab driver told me of this new program to help cab companies deal with the sky rocketing gas prices.  He went on to explain that this new program calls for the taxi cab being put in neutral for the last quarter mile of the fare.  The passenger will  then be asked to get out and push the automobile, cabbie and all,  to the final destination.

I declined.   I guess nowadays, everyone has to do their part.

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