Instead of accusing him of neurosis why not come up with feasible suggestions? Maybe car-pooling is a start to reduce numbers of vehicles and get people in the...
Mid-term test: Correct the following sentence: "Unlike 9/11 what has happened on the Gulf Coast as a result of Hurricane Katrina is a natural disaster." S...
I think I'm in favour of carpooling. For one thing (when it is working as intended) it reduces the number of cars, both on the road and needing to be made, and...
Per Eric Rosén
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Sep 1, 2005 11:17 am
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Shyrley wrote: "you have to do it in steps Brett. your 400 pound guy in humid Louisina is not gonna buy instant excercise." ...and other good stuff in this...
... http://www.slug-lines.com/ ... "A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." --Wiliam James I mean, as...
J. Bruce Fields
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Sep 1, 2005 1:57 pm
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It's really quite simple... Poor people tend to share more... Rich people are selfish... Goes back to a basic principle of primate psychology: In times of...
Well I'll leave all this to you, I think that the baby step approach (already practiced since the 70's) has been a disaster, since we "green types" started...
I've been suggesting individual small electric vehicles for decades... But instead of using a 200 lb. electric vehicle to carry the 400 lb payload, The guy has...
Under the radar: what was one of the first steps taken by the am-Bush government in the wake of the crisis in New Orleans? A "temporary" repeal of the EPA...
Brett Breitwieser wrote: "Sorry, I thought this was a "carfree" list... I can see I am surrounded by a bunch of apologists for the car bound lifestyle..." ...
"This list explores issues relevant to reducing or eliminating the reliance on automotive transport at a personal and societal level. We will analyze and...
Brett Breitwieser wrote: "I will be leaving this list... in search of a list that really supports this statement of purpose... it's amazing that to find that a...
... How do you expect to learn anything from people that never disagree with you about anything? ... I've never owned a car, I think I could hardly be called...
J. Bruce Fields
bfields@...
Sep 1, 2005 4:29 pm
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If - Brett you just weren¹t comfortable here you¹d just slip out the back as it were, but I detect an element of flounce in your announcement. It leaves...
I was under the impression that we were exporing what a car-free society might be like and ways to acheive this. Shouting 'everyone out of their cars now and ...
I didn't see that. I saw Bush saying that hiking petrol prices wasn't going to be allowed to make a fast buck. He put that before rescuing people and stopping...
... I like the thought of individual electric vehicles but what will happen is that a family will demand a larger, family sized vehicle and hey presto,...
... Not seen anyone here be a apologist for cars. What I see is people in various situations asking for ideas, thinking things through, trying to be car free...
... Yep. When I backpacked through Pakistan, India and SE Asia it was the poorest who shared. Who saw hospitatlity as a human duty. We were invited into ...
... I doubt it. They will most likely assume that you have no other choices, that you are so poor that you HAVE to ride the bus or take a bike. Marcy...
... I doubt they will assume I'm too poor. Probably that I'm nuts. Its normal to take buses, tube, bike here so while millions do drive, seeing others on PT...
... We'll get an even bigger crack from these people when they just STOP. Sit in a room quietly and wait for the terrible feelings to come that they're...
... Indeed, I've heard your spiel before and it fails on the mechanical advantage front. But lets not start that again. Hey, at the time you promised that...
... Brett Breitwieser, the first American Dictator. I was moving toward car-free, but I'm going to settle on car-lite myself after learning that the New...
Brett, You obviously care about this but still don't see that you are pushing away more people than you are attracting. What good is it if you and a few other...
This is such a typical cyberspat. If we could see, hear, touch and yeah smell each other this wouldn¹t be happening or rather some of us might never...
Brett's last words. Chris ... From: Brett Breitwieser [mailto:brett@...] Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 4:08 PM To: Scherer, Christopher Subject:...
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