Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:51 PM 4/26/06 -0400, Don Dory wrote: >But with gas hitting $3 in the U.S. people might change. Possibly try mass >transit. Mass transit is simply not an option for 70% or more of the population, as an increasing number of folks in the US live in small towns or in the far outer suburbs -- can you imagine the cost to drive the DC Metro out to, say, Clarke County? Mass transit already works for those living in the inner reaches of the large metro areas, but we lack the infrastructure to see use increase dramatically. I'd slap a $5 a gallon tax on gasoline imported from outside the US, open ANWR, and start pumping natural gas from the Florida coastal waters. The money from the new tax should go to set up processing plants for shale oil -- the US has raw reserves of shale oil equivalent to something on the order of ten times the proven petroleum reserves. I drive a manual '84 Audi 4000S which gets 40mpg on the highway and 30mpg around town. My wife has a straight-drive Hyundai Elentra which does almost as well. I am looking for a late 1950's VW Bus to use to haul my gear when I go camping, but there is no rush on that: my wife and I can lug it all in both cars now. Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!