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- From: smith@ctron.com (Larry Smith)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: Clinton, Gore, and the End of the Automobile Age
- Message-ID: <4619@balrog.ctron.com>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 19:17:57 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.005849.16417@s1.gov> <BruItw.9BD@quake.sylmar.ca.us> <1992Jul23.230804.1294@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <Bs13Bu.tJ@quake.sylmar.ca.us> <JMC.92Jul26224246@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> <1992Jul27.184413.3868@pbhye.PacBell.COM>
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- In article <1992Jul27.184413.3868@pbhye.PacBell.COM>, mjvande@pbhye.PacBell.COM (Mike Vandeman) writes:
- >In article <JMC.92Jul26224246@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
- >>A Hertz rental got me there. The point is that the
- >>availability of cars gives the transportation system important
- >>flexibility in emergencies.
-
- >Neither I nor anyone I know is against the AVAILABILITY of cars for purposes
- >such as that.
-
- And anyone can see that trashing the national highway system and bankrupting
- the entire automobile industry does *nothing* to damage the AVAILABILITY of
- cars for purposes such as that. After all, those fanatic personal-rights
- people will still need some rusted hulk to worship, won't they?
-
- Larry Smith (smith@ctron.com) No, I don't speak for Cabletron.
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- Daily I'd go over to Congress - that grand old benevolent national asylum - and
- report on the inmates there. Never seen a body of men with tongues more handy,
- or information more uncertain. If one of those men had been present when the
- Deity was on the point of saying "Let there be light" we never would've had it.
-