After having harped, earlier, about taking more of a personal responsibility approach to the price of gas, I searched for examples of what some folks are doing.
Turns out taking personal responsibility sometimes takes a bit of practice.
To wit:
Costly gas makes Utahns creative
Mellissa Evans thought she had found a new way to rein in her expenses as gasoline prices escalated.
The Tooele High School senior began hoofing it to school this week on her 11-year-old gelding, Nighthawk. Joined by junior Chapa Stevenson and her horse, Wink, the pair made the 30-mile trek between their homes in Rush Valley and school twice a day on horseback.But school officials told them Thursday that horses on school grounds are against the rules.
“I guess we have to go back to carpooling,” said Evans, who kept her horse in a stall inside the high school’s animal laboratory while she was in class. “When you have a car that gets 10 miles per gallon, you have to do something.”
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Wooeee, I done did kinda took a likening to the notion of going back to the good old wild west days, me own dang self, but oh well.
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