i already have a pretty efficient car because i cant afford that much
gas. Now i gotta suffer cuz my compatriots are fiscally and
enviornmentally retarded.
On 8/12/05, DLancer7676@cs.com <DLancer7676@cs.com> wrote:
> In a message dated 8/12/05 9:39:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> Dbcooper292@aol.com writes:
> > it almost makes you wonder what good
> > we could do if everyone wasn't driving a car the size of a house doesn't it?
>
> Actually, aside from the oil companies and the politicians in power getting
> filthy rich and garnering more power from it, the rise in gasoline prices may
> be a blessing in disguise. Americans have been on notice since the early
>'70's
> that the oil/gasoline supply was finite, but have ignored that fact to the
> tune of producing more and more huge, heavy, gasoline-guzzling vehicles and
> paying little attention to public transportation. Perhaps high-enough
>gasoline
> prices will exterminate the metal monstors and force us to build, purchase,
>and
> drive more sensible automobiles in our day to day. And perhaps put some of
> that gas money into a transportation infrastructure. We used to have a pretty
> good and thorough train and bus system, but that went by the wayside in favor
> of the one person to a car commute--an extension, I am sure of our heritage:
> the one person to a horse thing of the 1800's. 8^)
>
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