I think the advice about getting along without a car is sound. I ditched my old, restored and beloved Volvo with six huge cylinders and a 350 horsepower engine. Owning it was like burning money for fun. When I bought it gas was cheap. From the day brought it home gas prices just seemed to go up and up and up. I think Fate was trying to tell me something. Parting with it was sorrowful, but necessary. Anyway, my daughters didn't really appriciate the G-force pressing them back into their seats, when I touched the accelerator of "The Beast", as we called it. We now have dull, but wonderfully practical and incredibly realiable Toyota which we don't really use all that much. We also live in small port on coast, with a railway station, a ferry, a bus link, and lots of sailing boats. So as far as alternative transport possibilities go, we are very fortunate. I'm glad oil prices went up when they did, because I had been toying with the idea of buying Mercedes with around 475 horsepower for some odd reason. Today I would be feeling very foolish and rather ashamed if I'd followed through on this bizarre idea.