With gas prices touching the sky it seems I will have to soon chuck my fuel guzzling car in favor of environment friendly bikes which have been tasting dust in my garage since I passed out from school.

There seems to be a sudden rise in the bike sharing programs, all thanks to the rising oil barrel prices where a Public Bike System has been started off in Montreal. All you need to do is log on to a website, check up the location of rental unit in your vicinity and get real time information as to how many bikes are available at the moment.

This bike sharing program uses environment friendly solar powered docking stations and RFID tagged aluminum bikes which can be returned at any dock. You can pay for them via debit, credit or member cards. After reading this I have already started searching for bike sharing program in my neighborhood as my legs are still strong enough to pedal but in the process I will have to abandon my car which I brought with my hard earned money. All the credit for this goes to oil producing nations!!