What if petrol was $10 a litre?

What if petrol was $10 a litre? How would your life – our lives – change?

We were considering this as we drove into Subiaco yesterday for a quiet lunch at the Subi Hotel (very nice too) – would we have travelled even to Subi? Unlikely. We would be more likely to cycle or walk to the high street near us – plenty of restaurants there – and who would serve us – how would they get there? Presumably by train or they would live locally. In fact our entire society would change – a medieval village society would emerge – except – and this would be the big difference – we would be connected by the virtual world.

Imagine it – $10 a litre! Filling up your car would be ten times the cost. My little car takes about 50 litres. It’s about a tank to and from Dunsborough. Would I go south if it cost me $500 in fuel? I would think about it more than twice.

Getting to Rottnest would become prohibitive – sure I take the public ferries but already they are pricey – imagine what it would be like if the fuel price soared?

Small country towns would simply disappear. The cost of transported goods would skyrocket.

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And these are just a few of the ways our lives would change. Seeing friends who lived beyond cycling distance or easy public transport would be very difficult – and expensive. Would we keep a family car? It would be a luxury.

We would be a lot fitter. Our local communities would be enriched and invigorated. The corner shop would become profitable. Perhaps we would look to cyberspace for our employment in order to save on transport. Our lives would change immeasurably and maybe not for the worse.

So why wait til the price of fuel forces us to change? Why not embrace public transport and allow ourselves the choice to go down south if we want to? Should we be thinking of the car as a privilege rather than a necessity now rather than wait until we are forced to let our personal transporters sit, idle and rusting, in what in the future may be more garden to enjoy.