We need to look beneath the surface. Is it really abortion that so many claim to hate? Or is it the idea that people are having sex? Frankly, I don't think these boneheads in Congress are going to be stirred by the societal benefits of biking. I don't think you're asking the right question when you say, how can they hate it when it's so much fun. I think they do hate it precisely because it is so much fun. It's inconsistent with their view that life should be nasty, brutish, and short. Or if their lives are going to be nasty, brutish, and short, everybody else's should be, too.
On Dec 19, 2007 9:35 AM, Matt Logan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is difficult to fathom how something that is so much fun (biking to > work) could be the target for so much derision. Well maybe not, I > suppose raising the specter of the "anti-car left" forcing you out of > your car is the perfect solution to the problem of "How to keep your > largest political donors swimming in misbegotten cash derived by > distorting the market with huge energy, automobile, and road subsidies." > > Reducing energy dependence via promotion of MV-alternatives may sound > like a dream to some because less than 15% of Americans are likely to > use them, but considering the gasoline shortfalls that have produced the > price spikes are a tiny 5% deficit in supply, a temporary mode-shift of > 5% is all that is needed to eliminate the spikes (and erase > Exxon-mobile's record profits). The alternative is to let > gas-price-gouged consumers reduce their spending elsewhere (like on new > homes, vacations or holiday retail) which can induce a recession. > > - Matt > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Ann Freiwald > Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 8:55 AM > To: Reed Dunbar; Emily Ehlers; Blake Theisen; Sarah Gaskell > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: [Bikies] RE: ready. set. anger. > > [snip] > > One of those comments (Hastings): > > This isn't a plan to make America energy independent and to free us from > foreign oil. It > > is just a dream for the political left in this country. And let me > repeat, Mr. Speaker, it > > raises taxes, it is anti-nuclear and anti-dams, it forces people out of > their cars, and gives > > tax credits for riding their bike to work." > > [snip] > > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies > -- Robert F. Nagel [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.nagel-law.com 634 W. Main St., #201 Madison, WI 53703 608-255-1501 608-255-1504 fax
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