Hi Dana >Hi Keith, > >Are you trying to prove or disprove my point(s)?
Well, you may have noticed I keep saying (at every possible opportunity!) that US gas is way too cheap. However you want to look at it, the US uses a massively disproportionate amount of the world's energy (amongst other things), and it's high time you (collectively) stopped. The cheap prices have a lot to do with it. But no, I wasn't taking sides. I'm not into Ameribashing (I think I just bashed a Brit, didn't I?). I'm more inclined to defend Americans when they get bashed, as the archives will testify. Of course if they want to bash each other, who am I to interfere? :-) I just thought your argument over having such a big country and therefore needing the inefficient cars you make there didn't hold too much water. How many American miles driven are accounted for by that factor? I'm sure it's very few. Most are commutes, no? Sitting in the traffic, wasting all that fuel. And why should long distances equate with low efficiency? I don't see the link. I come from a big country, so does Dick, so do all the Australians on the list. It's not quite as you say. When I first started working in Johannesburg I quite often used to drive home to Cape Town for the weekend, 1,000 miles, in a Mini. It took me 11-12 hours each way. Okay, it was a pretty quick Mini, but it didn't use much gas. Later I had an Alfa, then a Peugeot, a Fiat... Toyotas, Escorts, none of them big. No need for big cars just because you travel far. My Peugeot 404 was better off-road than most of the 4x4 toys I see around these days. I once swapped it with a friend for a few days because I needed his pickup, and when we reswapped he said: "Don't you ever have to put fuel in that thing?" Great long-distance car. <snip> >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. Can't see it, Dana, doesn't make sense to me. Keith Addison Journey to Forever Handmade Projects Tokyo http://journeytoforever.org/ >Dana Linscott > >--- Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > > 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 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/
