This may all be true, but without cars to let us go where we want to go and
when we want to go, as well as maintaining our privacy while traveling, life
just wouldn't be worth living.
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From type79 at ix.netcom.com <type79@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, March 09, 2000 8:45 AM
Subject: Re: gasoline pricing
>This should open a can of worms.
>
>Despite my love for the automobile, it is the most inefficient form of mass
>transportation.
>
>The U.S. allowed the automobile to take precedence over every other form of
mass
>transportation and we continue to pay it's price: the cost to build and
maintain
>more and more roads, massive parking areas, traffic, pollution, SUV's and
pickups
>to transport 1 person, the loss of town centers, high insurance costs, high
fuel
>costs which is minor in the scheme of things, and the list goes on.
>
>Fuel prices will go up
>And fuel prices will eventually go down.
>
>The masses will continue to drive to the malls in their scaled down school
buses
>and complain that they can't park in the front row of the 10 acres of
macadam.
>
>Teenagers will continue to work at part time jobs to buy insurance and a
car so
>that they can get to work to pay for the insurance and maintenance on their
>car........
>
>Rural residents will continue to complain about the narrow roads near the
100 unit
>development they just moved in to and press for 30' wide streets in their
place.
>
>And on, and on, and on...
>
>IMO, Our transportation problems in the U.S. extend far beyond the cost of
fuel.
>
>Jay Fishbein
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