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- From: larson@loren.net.com (Alan Larson)
- Subject: Re: Cars as "something better"
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.061750.19556@unet.net.com>
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 06:17:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.145532.7225@pbhye.PacBell.COM> mjvande@PacBell.COM (Mike Vandeman) writes:
- >I don't. Cars waste more time, because they cause drivers to waste
- >their time. On transit, 100% of the time is useful time for me.
-
- It may be useful for you. It is *not* useful for many of us.
-
- It also takes lots more time, and sometimes isn't even possible.
- Most of the time, I am NOT just going from home to work and back.
- Monday, for example, was:
-
- home (in north Fremont) -> work (Redwood City, out by salt piles)
- work -> dinner with friends (near El Camino and San Antonio)
- dinner -> dancing (on Alma, a little north of Charleston)
- dancing -> home
-
- The second and third segments are limited in availiable time, as
- the time is squeezed pretty tightly.
-
- Several other days are similar.
-
- What am I to do? Give up my job, my slightly affordable house, or
- my life? Not everyone is a drone who only goes from home to work and
- back.
-
-
- >Transit still comes out far ahead of the auto. And more important, by
- >2020 we won't have affordable fuel for more than a few cars.
-
- As Joshua pointed out, you only get to cry wolf once. This was the
- claim in the late '60s that there was only 20 to 30 years of fossil
- fuel left in the world. It appears that it was not true then, why
- should we believe you now?
-
- Alan
-