> >We need to drive, because we need to get to work, and work centers are generally not near home centers. > We "need" to drive because of our choices. Before there were automobiles and airplanes and cheap fuel people did live near their work centers. That is my point exactly. Jim In a message dated 6/22/2008 8:42:00 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In a message dated 6/21/2008 3:15:36 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Cheap fuel over many generations in the US has resulted in a very mobile society compared to only a 100 years ago. It used to be that the older generation farmers lived in the home of the next generation farmer when they gold "old". Now everybody wants to move to the big city, or the big state, or the big opportunity and leave grandpaps and g-ma to fend for themselves. I can only speak for my own family - that was not how we did things. It remains to be seen how my children treat me. Jim There is a little more to it than that. Regardless of fuel price, people have to go where the work is. Number 1 priority for the majority of people is family and home. Number 2 is Work, to provide the income necessary to support number 1. When people are settled in a home, and they need to find work, they look close by first, don't find it, and then they look further out, where they DO find it. Therefore, the majority of people working in non-retail or fast-food establishments work at a distance from their homes, and so they DRIVE because mass transportation is not what it should be and hasn't been funded enough to become our major transport source. We need to drive, because we need to get to work, and work centers are generally not near home centers. Jerry aka LGO ____________________________________ Gas prices getting you down? Search AOL Autos for fuel-efficient _used cars_ (http://autos.aol.com/used?ncid=aolaut00050000000007) . _______________________________________________ Miatapower mailing list [email protected] http://list.miatapower.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/miatapower **************Gas prices getting you down? Search AOL Autos for fuel-efficient used cars. (http://autos.aol.com/used?ncid=aolaut00050000000007)
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