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To: Scumbria who wrote (133221)	4/23/2001 1:15:33 PM
From: GVTucker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, carpooling will result in a lower commute time only if everyone participates. The economic concept of moral hazard will come into play first. The only way that your scenario will become reality is if the government mandates carpooling. And if you think that there will be anger at $5 gasoline, that would be barely audible compared to the huff that would result in a law that mandates forced carpooling.

To: Scumbria who wrote (133221)	4/23/2001 1:43:37 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Once people start carpooling and find that their commute time is cut in half, they will probably be quite pleased. If everyone who could reasonably car pool did so, commute times would probably go down. But if an individual starts car pooling, or even 1 or 2% of all people who currently commute without car pools switch to car pooling their commute times will actually go up. So its hard to get people to start. For many people (includeing me) its really not practical. Tim