OT.. I Got the Answers

Our nation is facing problems more intense and more critical than ever
before in our history.. Everyone is searching for the answers.. The problems
seem to be complex and insurmountable.. The answers to all this grief and
anguish is too simple and too easy... PARK 'EM.. Shut them puppies down for
thirty days.. In our mobile society, that is unthinkable.. None of us can
even "imagine" walking to school, to work, not even to the grocery store...
Impossible.. we think.. Bicycles powered by our own strength and energy
doesn't burn gasolene.. Roller skates are another alternative
transportation.. No Way, Jose.. I can't live without my gas guzzler..
Typical and the usual stock responses.. Live with it.. As long as we burn
these lights in our homes, as long as we pull into those gas pumps to buy a
gallon of the distilled "black gold".. we got problems.. Cut the cash flow
to the oil companies for one month and solutions to all our problems would
be found.. quick.. For all that has happened to our country in the past
four years, when it is traced to the root, it is OIL.. pure and simple...

Your friend in Irving
Bill Walker

 

Damn .. Beemer.. you are "quick".. I made that post kinda "tongue in
cheek".. If you think about it for a bit, it could be serious as a
graveyard..The garbage being fed to us, to justify these ridiculous gasolene
and energy costs are so much horse manure..Between now and November, these
prices will escalate and just in time for the elections, they will decrease
slightly.. We will never again realize the prices of gasolene that we once
accepted as the "norm"..Cut the cash flow.. shut 'em down.. that is the only
way that these corporations will find the solutions that are necessary to
bring order back to our world...

Your friend in Irving
Bill Walker

 

I have a nice pair of skates over here that you can borrow...of course
it's your choice of either the ice skates or roller skates. I'll even
let you borrow one of my helmets and some pads to help in the "cause".

 

What I'd like to see is residents in large cities, lets say 100,000 or more,
forced to commute to and from work/school, by bus. This would save billions
of gallons of gas and also would further the reduction of pollutants thrown
into the atmosphere. Global warming would be drastically reduced too.

I'd also like to see laws requiring people to live within 3 miles of their
place of employment. If you get another job, you'd have to move if it didn't
meet that criteria. Think of how much gas could be saved and how much
pollution would be reduced.

I have no problem at all for large city dwellers paying an additional $1 per
gallon for gas. That revenue could be used to fund education for the
children.

TeeInnTee

 

Your plan is discriminatory.. Mine is voluntary.. Gonna shut 'em down.. do
it and do it for 30 days.. Let's vote on it...

 

LOL - "That's great"


Gary Walker

 

i'd rather be riding a motorcycle than either of those options.

 

All going to the same destinations/routes/times? Goo luck at hitting
over 50% efficiency.

 

Yet we have thousands of bozos driving in from the Woodlands and Katy
and Sugarland areas to the central city everyday, 1 to a car, and the
railroad tracks going southwest, west and north get removed. What's
wrong with this picture?

 

That is an oversimplification, you have to run to catch the bus, you will
sometimes hang on the outside, and goats and chickens have the same priority
as anybody else that got there before you. My wife and I have been there
and done that! You can also have strangers sleeping on your lap on longer
runs.

 

There's no free market when the choice is not available. When put to a
public vote, rail won handily, despite concerted oppostion from Tom
Delay. Now it needs to serve the bedroom communities where hundreds of
thousands of people spend hours daily going in and out of town, just
like communting from Connecticut and Long Island to NYC. The Woodlands
shuttle buses are full every day so the user demand is already extant.
Rail isn't for people in the city, it's for people coming from and going
to the city from outside. You and I don't need it, we're already in the
city, but we would benefit from fewer vehicles on the road in the city.

 

Do you fly commercial airlines? Big commercial airports are subsidized.
<g>

It's curious where to draw the line in what constitutes private industry
and public sector services and utilities. Often they work in concert
rather than separately. That's what fuels (pun intended) so much debate
in gummint and even usenet boreds (misspelling intended).

Motorcyclists ride on federal and state subsidized highways and federal
fire trails in the Nat'l Forests.
It's a Communist plot I tell yaz!

 

That's the real problem with Texas, we love our cars and our cities were
designed or lack of design based on anyone can go anywhere. If real city
planning were involved they would build more appropriately around mass
transit. A couple of more dollars per gallon should spur the populace into
better city planning.

Hey that's the american way. Just ask MS. Ford, Chrysler, GM, open Java,
pepsi, coke, and other big businesses.

 

Dumb Asses Ain't Real Texans

 

LOL.. What helmet "hang up".. My only problem with helmets is that I hope I
have the wisdom to know when to put that sucker on.. I really don't like the
idea of some legislator dictating me to wear anything.. I've never
discouraged anyone to NOT wear a helmet.. On the contrary, I encourage
people to use whatever means available, to feel secure when they ride.. That
includes wearing a helmet.. You seem to have some impression that I am
anti-helmets.. Not the case at all..

Your friend in Irving
Bill Walker