L, not -L wrote:
> On 10-Sep-2005, JimLane > wrote:
>
>> And that perfectly illustrates why $3/gal doesn't bother me at all.
>> Anyone who has been offshore knows just how good the US has it.
>>
>> Personally, I would like to see gas at $4 because then all the morons
>> driving SUVs just because they are cool would have to get back to
>> reality and drive cars they can actually parallel park.
>
> Maybe then we'd even invest in, and use, good mass transit - like many
> Europeans and asians. If the marketing people who are so successful
> in selling Hummers as substitute male genitalia would apply their
> evil genius to marketing mass transit solutions, gasoline
> consumption and prices would drop tremendously.

I'd use mass transit except for one thing - there are no bus routes, trolly
lines or commuter rails in the outlying area where I live. It's not
feasible to run them out here in the "country". If I lived downtown or even
midtown, I'd take a bus or a rail, or walk or ride a bicycle. Some of our
cities are larger than some European countries.

Jill