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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Scumbria who wrote (124074)9/18/2000 5:15:17 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1572089
 
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We are squandering this precious resource to support a low quality lifestyle. Commuters on Lawrence Expressway in
Sunnyvale waste 30 minutes every because they hit every single traffic light red.

Oil should be conserved for legitimate needs. Air travel, vacations, chemicals and plastics, trucking and farming, etc. The way we waste oil driving back and forth to work is insanity.

I can drive to work in 12 minutes (or about a half hour if I went during the peek of rush hour) or spend about an hour and a half on public transportation. This is in an area (Northern Virginia) that has some of the worst traffic in the country. Part of this disparity could be resolved with more spending on public transportation but no realistic amount of public spending could eliminate it. I do use public transportation most of the time when I go in to DC, but for suburb to suburb commutes it rarely is a good alternative and suburb to suburb commutes are becomeing an increaseing percentage of all commutes.

Tim
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