Black Market Taxis

Week 15 notes
With diesel as expensive as it is, its still more available than gasoline so we have taken to deploying the GM as a black market taxi. We basically have a fairly small route we drive and if we see people walking we tell them where we’re going and if they want a ride we make them pay for a few bucks. We have started to post a schedule, active on the weekends and on Fridays (and Mondays too – we’re down to 3 days a week, with roughly 12 hour shifts and telecommuting the other two days). Its actually been pretty productive so far. The first few times we didn’t make anything but after people got used to seeing us we managed to pick up some folks. We made $122 last week, which doesn’t sound like much but it paid for the gas we used plus we had a $32 profit that we dumped back into the co-op fund. The driver (me once, the other folks the rest of the time) basically donated our wares. My wife & kids rode along for free, they were happy just to be on a moving vehicle again (especially my boys). We give out the cell number for scheduling information and have posted our expected routes & times on a web site. So far we aren’t worried about car jackings, since people have been dumping their cars according to some blogs.

(OOG: this is a work a fiction for the worldwithoutoil.org experiment.)