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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rich4eagle who wrote (153527)	6/15/2001 7:26:31 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

rich, Gas will not run out for at least 500 years. Canadian tar sands as well as other tar sands assure that. SInce we do not live in a dictatorship(yet) people are allowed to use thei cars as they see fit. Improvements in dedicated lanes for busses would help them be fast when the cars are caught in traffic. Trains have dedicated lanes and are successful to a degree, but they are costly. At the heart of it is human choice and economics. Leave the choice and increase the gas taxes and that will shift people from cars into busses/trains or make them carpool more. Both reduce car useage. The rich will drive anyway. Changes in telepresence are reducing the need for physical commuting through virtual on line offices. Many people would have no need to go to another place work if all they do it asses claims and that can be done on a home computer with a high BW secure connection. Software can supervise this to make them work. Of course we can hire guys in Bangladesh at $1 per hour in a remote work application too? Experience with mass transit in the UK and Europe has shown that if they are given money they will build an overmanned monstrosity of a mass transit system that is veru inefficient. Private systems that are given some of this gas money to allow their fares to fayy as in New york might well be better. If people complain that NY is dirty, the cure is easy, hire cleaners and increase fares to pay for it. Bill