Subj : Re: Larry King
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : weirdwolf
Date : Thu Sep 01 2005 00:18:44

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Tyler Trafford <ttrafford+usenet@gmail.com> wrote in news:3nmrg4F2bb0mU2
@individual.net:

> 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.

 Which is why they get out of monoculture and into a variation in there 
produce. Better for the environment and better for them.
 
> Small farms (like for a single community) aren't economical over here.

 Small farms haven't been economical over here for years, the subsidies 
that both the E.U. and your government provide artificially boy up 
uneconomical practises. Locally produced crops of various types help to 
provide much needed stability in markets and make better environmental 
sense. All major countries produce much more food than is required, 
incredible amounts are wasted, it doesn't help that food prices are at an 
artifically low level and held there by the supermarkets. 
 
> (I am very ignorant of economics.)

 Well that makes two of us.
Ted

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