On Mar 6, 2:03=A0pm, Bolwerk <bolw...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Pat wrote:
> > On Mar 5, 8:05 pm, Miles Bader <mi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> Pat <gro...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> >>> It's not that I just want to whine, it is that I think that many of
> >>> the posts are extraordinarily ego-centric and arogant. =A0You want
to
> >>> live in some manner and think that everyone else should live in that
> >>> manner too. =A0There is a feeling of moral snugness and superiority
th=
at
> >>> is appalling.
> >> You have just described your own posts, to a "t". =A0This is why we
moc=
k you.
>
> >> -Miles
>
> >> --
> >> "1971 pickup truck; will trade for guns"
>
> > If you read what I say, not what you think I say, you will know that I
> > advocate letting people live the way they want. =A0Not trying to force
> > people to some "norm". =A0Frankly, I don't give a darn how someone
else
> > lives. =A0I just wish others were the same and didn't discuss "banning
> > cars" and such. =A0Live and let live.
>
> Not that there's anything wrong with a locality banning cars if it wants
> to, but who here is talking about banning cars? =A0The only people who
> ever bring it up are falsely attributing it to others to make them look
> bad, as far as I can tell.
Well, to start, the easier post I saw was from Donquijote who proposed
banning drivers (which is, in effect, banning cars because you can't
have one without the other). He said, " we are trying to develop
alternatives (bikes, public trans****tation) for the moment when 70% of
drivers are banned from the road... "
>
> Naturally, talking about reducing the subsidy that goes to cars, or
> making them meet more stringent emissions standards, are not the same
> thing as "banning" them.
He wasn't worried about subsidies as much as he just didn't like the
way that they drove.
>
> As for "live and let live," I'm all for that, but unfortunately the cost
> of maintaining automobile (or other trans****tation, for that matter)
> infrastructure comes out of everyone's pockets. =A0So it's not that
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Well, until they make a bicycle that can pull a 40' trailor, you need
the trucks. Until they put convenient trans****tation everywhere,
we'll need our cars. But I don't think that public trans****t is
coming soon to most of the country. It will remain just for those who
choose to live an urban lifestyle.
Meanwhile, everyone is sup****ting everyone else. So accept it and get
used to it.
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