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To: Elsewhere who wrote (171206)	9/23/2005 4:53:36 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

< If you charge $10,000 per vehicle one million citizens are left behind, more than with the current solution, and if a CAT 5 hits Houston many of them will die.> Wrong Jochen. One wouldn't be so stupid [unless one worked for the government] to leave the price at $10,000 when the freeway started to empty. One would lower the price to attract more motorists. And keep lowering it, to maintain maximum flow all the time. I'm sure you can imagine that a lot of people would crowd into vehicles to avoid paying $10,000 or even $1,000. Bus travel would be much cheaper as $10,000 divided by 50 passengers would be only $2,000 and more likely, the price would be only $1,000 divided by 50 = $20 toll. So even poor people would be able to get out, albeit in a bus instead of their SUV. One doesn't need to build Utopia initially to properly privatize. Thanks for the Libertarian comment on the government-created shambles. Mqurice