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To: Tommaso who wrote (52503)	8/21/2004 9:37:20 PM
From: Seeker of Truth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

In my opinion, the first thing a real scientist who had studied the matter would say is: Pay the world market price for gasoline, don't subsidize it in any way. Then there would follow a host of recommendations for adapting. 1. Remote shopping using delivery trucks of the remote seller. Or delivery trucks serving a host of remote sellers in given places. 2. More and better insulation. 3. Setting the thermostats lower in winter, using woolen clothes rather than fuel for warming of the human body. Similarly, in summer, tolerate a warmer environment than before, decreasing the air conditoning use. 4. Shorter showers. No bathtub use. 5. If possible apartment houses rather than individual houses. 6. Car pools. 7. Trains rather than airplanes between SF-LA,NY-BOSTON, NY-Washington DC etc. 8. Tolls on all highways. 9. Mandate energy saving equipment such as high efficiency gas furnaces, Prius type cars etc. 10.Beyond the saving of gasoline costs for the companies and/or the employees, reward remote employment via the tax system. In other words, put a tax on work space. 11. Heavy taxes on heavy passenger cars. 12. etc.etc. My daughter, in the states, already lives something like that kind of life. She has an apartment in a suburb of NYC which happens to be in the state of New Jersey. At the moment she is working in her company's San Francisco office doing a job in a group for a Minneapolis company. The people in her company have constant contact with people of the Minneapolis company by conference calls,emails, faxes etc.etc. Last month she was working on a job for a customer company which is in Philadelphia. Her office is really her laptop. Buy good oil/gas stocks and flourish!