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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> The biggest lifestyle changes will be for those who cannot pay the going 
> price. Like everything else, it's a choice if we make adequate money, or 
> don't.
> 

A case can be made for that, but it's more complicated.   Now there exist 
extensive and excellent roads; stores, restaurants, places of business, 
churches 
(etc) with parking lots; abundant mechanics; auto dealers; broad based 
insurance .... and such ... to service the automotive public because cars are 
ubiquitous.  If fuel becomes so scarce or expensive that only the wealthiest 
can 
afford a prersonal automobile, there will not be enough of a motoring public 
to 
support the current level of roads, insurance, and all the other things 
necessary for the motoring status quo.

Think of the status of private aircraft, general aviation, I think it's 
called.  If you are wealthy enough, you can afford your own plane, the pay 
the 
hangar fee, and all the other expensed involved in it.  But you can't fly 
right to 
most places in the country.  There simply aren't enough general aviators to 
support very many small airports, controllers, etc. to allow every small burg 
and wide place to have it's own airport which could accomodate small planes.

If motorists become much fewer because of fuel constraints, it won't just be 
matter of affording to pay the extra cost of fuel.