I’m not a rideshare driver but a user. I’m ok with paying the surcharge. My hope is the inflation will drive companies like Uber and Lyft to offer pooling once again which I used all the time. I know with the transportation requirement for masks that’s tricky, but I’m hoping it will return. Eventually?! It was a big $ savings and can use pre tax transit benefits with it.
Also public transportation is down in users roughly 50% in, for example, NYC which is a major contributing factor to seriously increased subway crime and homeless people on trains all day. Hoping this leads more people back to public transportation which will increase safety. Since the pandemic - - traffic has been INSANE with everyone in a “single serve” car all of a sudden.
Also hoping we can advance electric car usage/innovations/inventions as this tug of war about gas has gone on my entire lifetime and frankly I’m so over hearing about it. We are such an innovative country. There’s gotta be a better way. We don’t use rotary phones and switchboards anymore. Tons of people stopped smoking cigarettes. We don’t listen to music on Victrolas. We just can’t seem to let gas go. It’s one thing if it’s needed for industry use. I understand exceptions need to be made for long haul driving or for long car trips. But, I see people in the next town over drive less than 10 miles a day in gas guzzling cars just plodding around from their house to a grocery store and that’s it. It’s just crazy to me.
It’s like we are all still taking on Motorola brick phones and complaining about the poor connection every 4-8 years and we are even in shock, clutching our pearls like we can’t believe it! then when the pain is over we forget about it. Instead of funding innovation that results in the iPhone. Of course it’s never ending and always something different causes it. Just look at all the past history of gas crisis. Gotta do it differently.
that’s my 2 cents rant. Lol
