Subj : Re: Larry King To : alt.tv.farscape From : weirdwolf Date : Wed Aug 31 2005 22:22:39 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Tyler Trafford wrote in news:3nmkgoF2a1tqU1 @individual.net: > weirdwolf wrote: >> Steve Brooks wrote: >>> weirdwolf wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Which should lead to the development of brown field innercity sites >>>> and the development of better mass transportation. >>> >>> Why should there be any move towards better mass transportation when >>> petrol is a mere $4/gallon? >> >> I'm an advocate of increasing fuel prices to the consumer, might stop >> people driving the 15 minute walk to the shop. > > Wouldn't that just increase cost-of-living and just cause inflation? Yes and no. Prices would increase as a result of increased transportation costs, but you could offset that by other means. The cost of living due to spiralling petrol prices is happening anyway, were are talking about the same sort of prices for oil as after the Iranian revolution. It will continue to rise no matter what, instabilities in the middle east and elsewhere, the North sea reserves are draining rapidly, the scarcity of easily accesable reserves mean that unless you switch to an alternative source of power that stuff like tar sands will have to be exploited. More difficult to extract and to actually get to, with a corresponding price increase. A lot of the goods in this country used to be transported by rail I'ld like to see this return. Ted -- Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to hide the bodies .