text: Diesel fuel is expenisve but also nessacery in order to drive. Gas prices are not only high but in order to provide gas we strip the earth of its natural resources thta take millions of year to replish. Wars have been started over it and some are still in action. Walking could save money and lives. In The End of Car Culture by Elisabeth Rosenthal, " Part of the explanation certainly lies in the recession, because cash-strapped Americans could not afford new cars, and the unemployed werent going to work anyway." Buying is car in both expensive and stressful.