Subj : Re: Larry King
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Tyler Trafford
Date : Thu Sep 01 2005 00:06:44

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

weirdwolf wrote:
> Tyler Trafford <ttrafford+usenet@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:3nmr2uF2bb0mU1@individual.net: 
>
>> John Iwaniszek wrote:
>>> Tyler Trafford <ttrafford+usenet@gmail.com> wrote in
>>> news:3nmkgoF2a1tqU1 @individual.net:
>>>
>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>>> Steve Brooks wrote:
>>>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 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?
>>>
>>> Shipping this week has a 50% increase in fuel surcharge.  last week
>>> it was 20 cents a mile.  This week it's 30 cents.
>> 
>> Ah, interstate commerce, I completely forgot about that consequence.
>
>  one that will encourage locally grown produce, a movement which is 
> rising in this country.

That would still screw over states like Montana and South Dakota (etc)
which grow mass quantities of corn and wheat.

Small farms (like for a single community) aren't economical over here.


(I am very ignorant of economics.)
-- 
Tyler Trafford

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
		-- Mae West

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