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Weeelllll, there are now some extremely coherent reasons for reducing oil consumption, even if
Arianna Huffington and Bill Maher *did* point them out. If only Arianna had kept her piehole shut
the issue might have gained some purchase. Put wise words in the mouth of a fool and they're bound
to sound foolish. There oughta be a law.
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--Scott
"Robert Haston" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> The point isn't whether we will become Europe or not, we won't. The point
> is subsidizing anything that doesn't clearly help our society (education,
> law enforcement, etc.) is bad. Beyond being counter to capitalism and
> democracy, diverting our dollars away from the young, old, handicapped and
> poor is terrible and hypocritical.
>
> "jhuskey" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > I do not believe the US will ever evolve into a cycling area like
> > Europe. Our population is not mentally geared that way and mainly
> > because of the differences in distances traveled. I personally have a 40
> > minute drive each day both ways. That would translate into about a 2
> > hour ride for me each way every day and a lot of people have more. For
> > this reason I don't see the trend from automobile transportation
> > changing. "Europe where 200 miles is a long way". "The USA where 200
> > years is a long time".
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
>
Arianna Huffington and Bill Maher *did* point them out. If only Arianna had kept her piehole shut
the issue might have gained some purchase. Put wise words in the mouth of a fool and they're bound
to sound foolish. There oughta be a law.
--
--Scott
"Robert Haston" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> The point isn't whether we will become Europe or not, we won't. The point
> is subsidizing anything that doesn't clearly help our society (education,
> law enforcement, etc.) is bad. Beyond being counter to capitalism and
> democracy, diverting our dollars away from the young, old, handicapped and
> poor is terrible and hypocritical.
>
> "jhuskey" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > I do not believe the US will ever evolve into a cycling area like
> > Europe. Our population is not mentally geared that way and mainly
> > because of the differences in distances traveled. I personally have a 40
> > minute drive each day both ways. That would translate into about a 2
> > hour ride for me each way every day and a lot of people have more. For
> > this reason I don't see the trend from automobile transportation
> > changing. "Europe where 200 miles is a long way". "The USA where 200
> > years is a long time".
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
>