"Governor Swill" <governor.swill@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> "M.Butzin" <mfbutzin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> used a stick in the sand to babble
>>> I don't buy that. I will stipulate that government and industry in
>>> the US aren't doing enough in those directions but I don't think
>>> they're holding back. Americans don't like mass transit. Why build
>>> it before the public demands it?
>>
>>Do you work in the auto industry?
>
> No.
>
>> There are billions of dollars to scare
>>people and lobby against it. Take a trip to england and see how easy it
is
>>to get around without having to find parking and a hotel where you can
>>park
>>your car, the cabs are cheaper also.
>
> England is more densely populated so mass transit is cost effective.
> your comment also ignores most of the rest of my post so I'll repeat
> some of it here.
>
> America committed itself to private car trans****tation systems nearly
> a century ago.
Henry Ford & The Government committed America to the Auto in the early
part
of last century. The early immigriants were used to travel by the mass
transit system from Europe. The government realized that the taxes gained
from auto sales and the early railroad barrons were able to block seamless
transit from one region to another is what helped America "Choose" the
auto.
And gasoline is a "by product" from producing other petroleum products (it
was 2~3 cents a gallon).
The sheer size of this country and the relative
> density in Europe make a difference. Americans have chosen to spend
> their resources in certain ways. if you disagree with this, fine. I
> disagree with it to some extent. If I could catch a bus a block from
> my door and be at work in half an hour, I'd do it. But I can't and it
> isn't going to happen out here three counties away from the city
> because there isn't the population density to sup****t it.
The interstate highway system was built during the "cold war" to evacuate
cities in case of attack, which meant you'd die in your car. You could
catch
a bus or train one or two counties away in some cities, San Francisco,
Chicago and many cities in the north east. I rode on a train for the first
time in my forties from Houston to Winona Mn. When I live in New Orleans I
used the trolley sometimes hourly.
>
> I've said before that IMO, large gas taxes should be applied to motor
> fuel (such as Europe does) and car taxes should be based on weight and
> horsepower (such as Europe does)
Flordia has been doing this for years you buy a big Lincoln and your tags
cost twice as much as a Honda.
and the lion's share of this money
> should be dedicated to public trans****t systems (as Europe does)
> because this is a more efficient use of oil and other resources.
>
> But that doesn't change the reality of what is now.
>
>>Bush cut funding for solar energy R&D, General Motors lost funding for
>>research for the EV1 cars from congress when Bush went into office they
>>were
>>crushed and went into the scrap heap, the ONLY alternate energy he
>>sup****ted
>>was corn/ethnoyl.
>
> And the People don't seem to care.
And they won't until gas is $10.00 a gallon, then mass transit will come
back in vogue. manditoraly
>
> Swill
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