Cold Del Taco

Thinking more about either an oil shock or depression...an oil shock might actually make cycling worse.

Elk Grove, since inception, has been blessed with a council that created a city with the worst jobs to housing ratio in the three county region (Sacramento, Placer & Yolo). The purchase of a home also comes with free enrollment in the Elk Grove Compulsory Motoring Program (EGCMP). When choosing their upgrades such as 7/16" instead of 3/8" carpet padding, new buyers didn't notice the EGCMP checkbox was already checked.

90% of Elk Grovians get to their jobs via single driver motoring. And quite a few of them become raging assholes when faced with traffic. I see this as a bicyclist -- they will illegally use the bike lane to bypass the long traffic lines on Franklin Blvd. and then cut into the traffic lane at the last minute. If a bike is in the bike lane, whoa! There's a problem. Some additional nuisance is hindering their easy 'close to freeways and shopping' commute.

Couple this with $4 gas, and rage is likely to escalate. Not good when you're on a bike. I've had an old woman swipe at me in her Delta-88 when I took the lane to avoid a road hazard. Imagine what an alpha male jerkoff will do when, in addition to the cold breakfast burrito he was served that morning at the Del Taco drive-thru, also had to shell out $68.50 to fill up the Blazer at the Arco.

A guy on a bicycle is an easy mark to nullify all that pent-up rage.