hmmmm...... Live close .... eaten alive with taxes.
Live far .... less taxes ... but (assuming oil price rise) eaten alive with fuel costs. Are those "choices"?? Especially with (effective ... buying power-wise) wages falling low?? Curtis Get your free newsletter at http://www.ezinfocenter.com/3122155/NL ----- Original Message ----- From: robert luis rabello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I agree, but this will not happen when people believe, rightly or wrongly > that heavy cars are safer. Also it would be just as much help if people > stopped moving further away from work (unless they telework or travel by > train) and taking jobs that require longer commuting drives. Cheap fuel > encourages this behaviour. > Malcolm You bring up intelligent points, but the issues aren't always so clear cut. In our case the decision to move far away from work had less to do with cheap fuel than cheap land. We simply couldn't afford to live close to where I work, as the properties there were running better than $50 000 more expensive than the lot we bought. Even if fuel was twice the price, I could buy a LOT of it for the difference. (Trust me, we agonized over this decision!) Here's how the math works... Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/