Hi Keith, Are you trying to prove or disprove my point(s)?
The fact that the US infrastructure is no longer sufficient to handle the current traffic efficiently does not disprove the statements from my previous post you chose to include in your post. I suppose that we should raise our gas tax a dime or so a gal.. to allow us to upgrade...but as you may have noticed our economy is having a tough go currently...and the time to do so may have passed. Maybe I should not have spoken up. It seems to upset some people that I do not subscribe to blanket statements about a stereotype "American" that drive huge gas guzzling SUVs. I must admit that the statement in a previous post about Americans needing a good bashing upside our heads did piss me off. In retrospect I should not have responded as it did not deserve a response. By the, many of the people I know that drive gas guzzlers do so because they are the only autos they can afford to buy....used. I am sure that many more affluent folks also drive thier larger than normally needed pickups and suvs so they can tow thier boats, travel trailers, etc. When faced with buying a second car they choose a "workhorse". Many in MN own suvs for thier all wheel drive and high ground clearance...which comes in mighty handy during the winter months heavy snows. I am equally sure that some simply want to drive something large because they feel safer (ACCORDING TO A NEW SAFETY STUDY THE JOKE IS ON THEM)or just want to show off their affulence. These are not the average American. I stand by my previous statement about the requirements of a country with such vast distances over which people and things must be transported and the difficulty of those that live in a more compact continent to understand this. I am sorry if some have a difficult time accepting this point of veiw. Dana Linscott --- Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Dana > > >We are a huge country with vast distances over > which > >people and things must be transported. We live in > an > >energy dominated world economy. I do not disagree > that > >we might be more efficient...but that is an issue > that > >will always be there no matter how efficient we > get. > >There is always room for improvement. I am not > >defending inefficiency or the politics of energy. I > >just don't think most Europeans understand the > rules > >we must live with in such a large and spread out > >nation. > > > >Dana Linscott > > Er... > > Study finds traffic getting worse - May 7, 2001 > ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Traffic is getting worse: > The average > American spends 36 hours per year stuck in traffic, > up from 11 hours > in 1982, according to a study released Monday. And > rush "hour" is a > misnomer, with city streets and highways often > congested for six to > seven hours per day, the report found... > The study found the total congestion "bill" for the > 68 cities in 1999 > came to $78 billion in lost productivity, 4.5 > billion hours of delay > and 6.8 billion gallons of wasted fuel. > http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/05/07/traffic.cities/index.html > > See message # 4862, 2001 Urban Mobility Study, > 5/8/2001 > > Best > > Keith Addison > Journey to Forever > Handmade Projects > Tokyo > http://journeytoforever.org/ > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
