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To: LLCF who wrote (175791)	6/28/2002 5:38:15 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (3) of 436258

"Why would anyone drive…when you can take the RedCar for a nickel?" twoamcreative.com Why Cars? "Why would anyone drive…when you can take the RedCar for a nickel?" asks a line in the movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". Who indeed? Quite a few of us, that's who! But why? When examining the truths about cars and the car culture one has to ask: how did such an ineffective and expensive mode of transportation become so pervasive? Most Deadly Mode of Transportation Cars kill 47,000 individuals on American Roads each year—129 persons each day. Like a non-stop killing machine, automobile traffic in the U.S. claims one human life every 12 minutes, and that time interval is on the decrease. Read more… Most Expensive Mode of Transportation In 1998, car ownership cost 52 cents per mile on average, according to the Federal Highway Administration. Merely operating a car was estimated to cost 35 cents per mile that same year. Even at this exorbitant price, car owners and drivers pay only about 30 percent of the total costs incurred as a result of automobiles. Read more… Most Subsidized Mode of Transportation Seventy percent of individual car use is paid for by the government, which gives us the infrastructure cars and car traffic needs—including law enforcement, emergency medical services, and road construction and maintenance. When taking into account environmental cleanup and human-health ailments associated with cars and car exhaust, the automobile subsidy amounts to even more. Talk about a welfare state! ---------------------------------------------------------- I think the guys in Africa should examine the mess we have made of our countries so they can build something better...

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