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Re: FW: Gas Boycott



>I believe that gasoline should be more expensive in order to encourage
>conservation.  The American culture of, "it's two blocks away; I'll
>drive" is utterly ridiculous.  Hell, I'm guilty of it myself... my
>office is a mile and a quarter from my house, and there's a bus line
>that runs almost exactly between the two.  Nontheless, I ride the bike
>or (gasp!) drive my car almost every day, rather than taking the bus
>or walking.
>
>If gas cost twice as much as it does now, we'd have a lot fewer SUVs
>on the road, and a lot more small cars that get 40+ MPG.  That seems
>like a good thing to me.


Patti,
Perhaps the solution is to ban private transportation and use only electric
rail to transport us around our new socialist utopia ?


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