I hate having to own a car. I'm not quite at the point where I can do without one, but maybe in a few years I can. The cost is horrific. In the city center one needs valet parking, plus the cost of street parking is now very high. Add insurance, crazily expensive maintenance and the fear of the damn thing breaking down in rush hour or in a weird neighborhood...and of course, the constant threat of some drunk slamming into you or some road-rager shooting you.....it's nuts to own a car. The money spent on a car -- just keeping an old one, not buying one -- could pay for a few wonderful luxury trips a year. Incidentally, did you know that the paint on many new cars is thicker than the metal it's on? You can dimple the metal with your finger. Ever watch a new car being assembled? They are snapped together, almost no screws or bolts anymore. It's amazing new cars run as well as they do. Now it's $60 for a full tank. In the late 50s I paid about 19 cents a gallon. With inflation at 10 times since then I should be paying about $1.90. Nope. It's about 25 times higher. Where are the American high speed trains and the local trams? wc
________________________________ From: saulostrow <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, February 9, 2013 8:22:02 PM Subject: Re: Skills children learn from the arts actually they are doing both - they want an auto that requires no skill re: driving, which will expand the market and do away with the high cost of liability insurance - and as such further reduce the need for public transportation *CriticalPractice* 21 TREET PROJECTS La Table Ronde 162 West 21 Street NYC, NY 10011 [email protected] www.21stprojects.org On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Michael Brady <[email protected]>wrote: > William wrote: > > > Private business is funding applied research to, say, build a more > > efficient automobile, when the real goal should be to eliminate private > autos > > altogether while improving universal transportation.
