Subj : Re: Larry King To : alt.tv.farscape From : Tyler Trafford Date : Wed Aug 31 2005 22:21:07 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape weirdwolf wrote: > 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. What gets me is how the price increases are due not to supply shortfalls, but by the threat of possible future shortfalls. -- Tyler Trafford A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of everything before he destroys it. .