On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 11:04:58PM +0530, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: > The obvious question is, who has the oil for all of this? Certainly not us.
I'm pretty sure an electric scooter for half a kilobuck plus PV array could give you a 50 km commute with a daytime's charge. > And more over this phenomenon is a problem beyond just the > environment. In a society with no social guarantees of income and > health care, how does a majority of India justify putting aside a huge > portion of their income towards a car? In the above example, it would > be almost 17 months gross income towards the $2500 car. Something People in Russia were saving for a decade or more to buy a car. > similar seems to happen with people who currently buy more expensive > cars on a somewhat better income. > > (I wonder if there is any data available around the portion of income > the average Indian puts aside for a car. ) > > India has in its past had some really bad times; in comparison the > past 60 independent years have been mostly great. I am worried that > this country's economic managers are setting up the nation for a very > tough future. > > The present landscape of coalition governments built on partisan > causes and corruption only provides token governance at best. I am > afraid of a rather bad future that will cause a lot of collateral > damage. It seems pretty insane to issue more ICEs to an urban landscape with one of the worst air pollution situations in the world. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
