On 20/02/07, Andrew Dyke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> It is interesting that, with a few exceptions, the feeling
> on this list confirms the general view.
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> Regards,
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> Andrew

I don't think the members of this list constitute a representative
sample of the population, but as it happens I'm with the minority on
this one although I've kept quiet up to now. This may come under the
category of issues where a minority strongly oppose an issue, while a
majority mildly support or accept it's inevitablity. Petitions by
definition don't measures this.

I do worry however that market-based methods of rationing scarce
resources cause problems in a society as unequal as ours. They won't
change the behaviour of the well-off and may completely exclude the
poor.

That is why I would insist not on revenue neutrality across drivers,
but across transport so that income can be used to improve public
transport as has happened in London (though it is more than the poor
who rely on public transport in big cities).

-- 
Nigel Stanley

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