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> > Basically, I think there is something very
> > wrong in a society if you live within 50 miles
> > of a city where you work in an office and have
> > to drive to work.
>
> ?! What else do you expect us to do, walk fifty miles each direction per day? Or maybe we shold just go back to horse and buggy. Much less efficient and way more maintenance, but oh well. Or maybe we could fly to work in our own private helicopters.
>

I take the train. It gets me there just as fast as by car, and I get to sleep or read on the way.
No, I know that's not feasible for everyone, but it could be made to work many more places than it does today.

>
> > but the number of people buying SUVs (yuch!) is
> > frankly sick.
>
> It's sick for people to buy a certain type of vehicle because you think it's "yuch"? Your tastes dictate everyone else's buying habits? We have an SUV and it's great. It can fit loads of stuff in it, the four-wheel-drive is great for when we go, for example, to Mexico, and it's a general all-around nice car. People say it's unsafe and dangerous, but I haven't noticed any problem yet. I think it depends more on the driver than the vehicle.
>

I seem to have put that badly. It is the number of people which makes me go "yuch!", not the SUVs themselves.
I might wonder a bit about the use of 4x4 when going to Mexico (unless it means driving through the Rio Grande), but I wouldn't really know.

>
> -eric "Happy birthday, Leen!" sleator
> Fri 1 Jun A.D. 2001

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