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Re: FW: Gas Boycott
- Subject: Re: FW: Gas Boycott
- From: "Gregory D. Girard" <ggirard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 21:33:34 -0500
>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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