Since we ride bikes

I'd say one way or another, anyone who rides a bicycle and likes it, ends up paying attention to gas prices in a slightly different way than folks who drive a car more often.  Not everyone is political about it, and some of us ride our bikes so much so that we're distanced from the savings. We still end up riding on roads, passing a station and feeling some kind of niceness about things and our bikes.

 In Japan, lots of folks already ride their bikes and / or use public transportation.  But there's still a lot of talk about the rising price of gasoline.  At this gas station - modeled on the Astrodome - it's 180yen for a liter.  Turns out that's 6.66 a gallon.