The New Colonist presents its October issue, online and available now at http://www.newcolonist.com. This month we present: *"Big and Blue in the USA," by...
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Mike Harrington
mikeph12001
Oct 1, 2003 12:34 am
Some of you may be interested in this. Lyndon Henry from Austin comes out with one of these almost every day. The new group is: ...
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Mike Harrington
mikeph12001
Sep 30, 2003 11:12 pm
Well, that's true, although you allude to the fact that the US has more lower class people using cars than other places. If things keep going as they are,...
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Chris Loyd
tybalt1982
Sep 30, 2003 7:06 pm
I forgot to type in the rest of my message, as one respondent e-mailed to tell me. <<Interesting... I find it interesting that his "moral" call to action is to...
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Jym Dyer
jym@...
Sep 30, 2003 5:10 pm
... =v= That's not quite true. While (as he goes on to describe) the middle class expanded along with auto use, there has always been a "lowliest"; class that...
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Mike Harrington
mikeph12001
Sep 30, 2003 4:58 pm
September 29 2003 What really allowed America to become a car-addicted society was the democracy of it. By the late 20th century, virtually anybody who wanted...
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Mike Harrington
mikeph12001
Sep 30, 2003 12:17 pm
New Orleans Regional Transit Authority and the Czech Skoda Works will have built two dozen "modern" broad-gauge (5'2½", 1588 mm) cars that resemble their...
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mtneuman@...
mtneuman
Sep 30, 2003 12:07 pm
FYI. I thought some here might have an interest in doing this, too ... Mike ... Concerned that the Bush administration and the Congress are ignoring the ...
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rickrise@...
rickrise
Sep 29, 2003 9:38 pm
You have been sent this message from rickrise@... as a courtesy of washingtonpost.com Personal Message: Important news--pass it on. Study Finds Net...
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Lanyon, Ryan
ryan_lanyon
Sep 29, 2003 7:15 pm
From: Transportation Communications Web Site of the Day: Gomaco Trolley Company Trolleys are becoming popular again. Old-style cars are being used in places ...
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billt44hk
Sep 29, 2003 10:28 am
Monday, September 29, 2003 China eyes curbs on car sector MARK O'NEILL in Shanghai China's top planning body has warned of over-investment in the car industry....
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Chris Loyd
tybalt1982
Sep 28, 2003 7:36 pm
Here's some math: The Texas Department of Transportation's Budget for 2003 is $5.2b (ftp://ftp.dot.state.tx.us/pub/txdot-info/pio/annualsummary2002.pdf) If I...
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Mike Harrington
mikeph12001
Sep 28, 2003 2:26 pm
Here's an article I translated just now from Le Monde. Note that the overwhelming majority of Parisians support the project: ...
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Mike Harrington
mikeph12001
Sep 28, 2003 11:12 am
Articles like this are what Wendell Cox and the legion of road hogs hope you don't read. The highway advocates in Houston have come out with the ridiculous...
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Mike Harrington
mikeph12001
Sep 28, 2003 9:15 am
From: "Nawdry" <nawdry@...> * Sacramento: 'New vista for light rail' Sacramento Bee Saturday, September 27, 2003 * Houston: City planners seek...
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Richard
rickrise
Sep 28, 2003 1:46 am
This article from the Star Tribune has been sent to you by Richard. Richard wrote these comments: A Quote: "The bottom line is this: Only 24 percent of the...
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Jym Dyer
jym@...
Sep 28, 2003 12:13 am
... =v= Lots of people. As I already said, this has come up a number of times on this list. Here's a pointer to a recent report by Malcolm Weiss that was all...
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David Forbus
anim8er2
Sep 27, 2003 8:53 pm
... I don't care about what they have planned. Once the demand side of the situation in converted (automobiles running on Hydrogen) the we hijack the supply...
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autofrei-wohnen.de
markusheller...
Sep 27, 2003 8:41 pm
Hi David, Ecocity Builders, Berkeley/CA, gives somes statistical data about carfree households in US-Cities, unfortunately, they didn`t publish about Houston,...
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Mike Harrington
mikeph12001
Sep 27, 2003 8:40 pm
Note also that half of the energy consumed by an automobile is in its manufacture. We'll have cheap energy for a few more years, and then production will...
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David Forbus
anim8er2
Sep 27, 2003 8:31 pm
This is how I would like to change Houston. Install a Monorail system that connects the major work and shopping locations. The Monorails would go from the...
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David Forbus
anim8er2
Sep 27, 2003 8:08 pm
Certainly, if we could magically replace all automobiles, fuel stations, etc.... to hydorgen, it would not solve all of the problems of the automobile. Another...
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Jym Dyer
jym@...
Sep 27, 2003 8:00 pm
... =v= Good grief, haven't we been over this a dozen times already? =v= Unless you've worked out a miraculous new fourth law of thermodynamics, this is not a...
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David Forbus
anim8er2
Sep 27, 2003 7:38 pm
Hydrogen is made from water, and turns into water when consumed. What other portable fuel has such a clean, closed loop? That's the important part. What other...
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David Forbus
anim8er2
Sep 27, 2003 7:00 pm
Certainly we need to reduce the dependence on automobiles. But "the cat is out of the bag" in that people like the freedom and status of owning an automobile....
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Mike Harrington
mikeph12001
Sep 27, 2003 12:54 pm
Gulf Coast Growth News Sep 26 2003This comes out once a week in Houston. There doesn't seem to be a web link for this, so this has to be forwarded. I thought...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/printedition/chi-0309250294sep25,1,4024081.story?coll=chi-printmetro-hed Motorized vehicles are targets of ban Janice...
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Mike Harrington
mikeph12001
Sep 25, 2003 3:12 pm
It is doubtful that fuel cells will ever replace internal combustion. The technical article below quantifies the huge cost of hydrogen fuel. The hydrogen...
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Richard Risemberg
rickrise
Sep 25, 2003 2:32 pm
The "hydrogen economy," and you don't have to read too deeply into matters to discern thsi, is a desperate attempt to keep all the cars we have now on the road...
