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Re:In an Oil Boom Town, Even a Barber Can Make $180k by rcMgD2BwE72F on Monday April 01, 2019 @03:44PM (#19547364)
>1. Buy an electric car. Live in a smaller home.

Better: move to a city, sell your car and buy bikes for your family. Live in a flat.

Edit: as a comment to tw04's reply, do you really believe that the owners and banks of fracking companies choose to ignore changes in demand when investing in decades' long projects? If so, you should just fight capitalism because it would be the most stupid system of capital allocation one can think of.

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Re:In an Oil Boom Town, Even a Barber Can Make $180k by bluGill on Monday April 01, 2019 @04:49PM (#19548069)
Many of us work in a suburban office park with ZERO places to live in walking distance, and no bus service. Even if you count bike distance, the office park really needs more workers than zoning codes all to live in a comfortable distance (don't forget the getting over/around hiways often adds significant distance to a commute)
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