| Re: Safe Routes to School Question
Tim Smith <tssmith@sonic.net> wrote in message news:<69utnvopghk1pcneafe1ak3ggael2o57mv@4ax.com>. ..
> "Doug Huffman" <2huffman@bellsouth.net> wrote:
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> >Why should you 'donate' to buy what your taxes shouldn't buy?
> >
> >The physical and legal infrastructure for safe cycling exist. What is
> >needed now is effective principled leadership to allow their use.
>
> What's really needed is a shift in cultural values, and I suspect that
> LAB cannot do that. $6 per gallon gasoline would, but that's not going
> to happen any time soon.
On the contrary . . .
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/...p?story=449053
http://www.isv.uu.se/uhdsg/OilIPCC/Conclusions.doc
"World oil and gas supplies are heading for a 'production crunch'
sometime between 2010 and 2020 when they cannot meet supply, because
global reserves are 80 per cent smaller than had been thought, new
forecasts suggest."
Their argument is NOT that we are going to run out of oil & gas that
soon. But demand will exceed supply that soon. And when that
happens, prices are going to go through the roof . . .
--Brent
bhugh [at] mwsc.edu
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