--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" 
> <shempmcgurk@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> 
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" 
> <shempmcgurk@> 
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > California Sues GM, Ford, Toyota Over Global Warming 
(Update1) 
> > > 
> > > I agree. These automakers lack of social responsibility is 
> > appalling- 
> > > where they must be sued or legislated into making any socially 
> > > responsible changes at all. Ever survived a car accident? If 
so, 
> > thank 
> > > your seat belts, airbags, etc. which were mandated by 
> legislation.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > If the consumer had demanded those things, they would have been 
on 
> > cars long before any government mandated it.
> > 
> > Indeed, as I understand it, there are regulations soon coming 
out 
> > that people can dismantle airbags if they want? I wonder if they 
> > will choose to do so and in what numbers.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > One other point- I can choose to eat at McDees or not. Not so 
> > > regarding driving my car, as the automotive lobby was 
> instrumental 
> > in 
> > > dimantling the public transportation (streetcar) networks at 
the 
> > turn 
> > > of the 19th-20th centuries.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I wasn't aware that public transportation doesn't exist in L.A. 
or 
> > San Franscisco and other areas of California.
> > 
> > That's terrible!  Haven't the people there protested against 
this?
> 
> I'll start taking 'public transportation' in the SF Bay Area when 
> everyone else does...
> 
> When I was working in San Francisco, about 50 miles away from 
> here, 'public transportation' would've meant taking a bus to a 
train 
> to another bus to a subway for about a 2 and 1/2 hr trip one way, 
> vs. one hour by car.
> 
> Currently I can take two buses and a light rail to work for an 
hour 
> and a half vs a 20 minute car ride. Yeah, we've got 'public 
> transporation'...
>

So your own time is more important to you than saving the planet, 
have I got that right?







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