Carpooling

Carpooling is a great way to deal with the immediate problems of the rising price of gas. It is also a great way to transition from primarily driving to work to primarily telecommuting to work. However, when push comes to shove it is not a permanent solution to the problem because of the numerous drawbacks that carpooling brings to the table.

The most obvious drawback is that the route you drive in carpooling is longer and dependent on where your other carpooling members happen to live. If a particular business wants to put up a map and spend the time to help employees find people that live close to them then that is good, but most businesses have no interest in doing that. And for some employees, there are no people that live close to them. Therefore, carpooling is nothing more than a short term solution for most employees in the country.

Telecommuting on the other hand allows you to spend no money on commuting beyond the money you spend accessing the internet everyday in order to be able to communicate with the people you work for. It is therefore a long term solution that can help you defeat the energy crisis problem before it begins something that threatens your basic cash flow concerns.