And yet gasoline prices rise

[jumpy]

^^

Sure we do, but outside of say, London or maybe Birmingham, they're practically useless if you have to get anywhere by a specific time. Plus getting in and out of my home city on the bus costs about the same as paying for fuel in a car every week, with the added bonus of being late every day.

The Tube in london is great. But it's over a hundred miles away from me, so it's not much use

Public transport in this country is a joke.
Over priced buses and decrepit railways, which are over priced too... It's all that privatisation you know.
We went from having an unreliable transport service that was cheap (read government subsidised - like germany and france and most of europe do with theirs), to having an unreliable transport service that is now prohibitively expensive for a lot of people.
Owning your own vehicle and fuelling it is getting that way now too; steady rises in insurance premiums, road tax and fuel duty - lets be clear: were it not for each and every government here adding 2/3's of the cost of every litre of fuel at the pump as tax/fuel duty, I wouldn't have half as much to lambaste as I do.