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To: Lane3 who wrote (19752)	5/28/2006 9:18:35 AM
From: Dale Baker	Respond to of 543409

Just dropping by for a quick catch up here. Seems to me that as long as America is a shop and grow/shop and grow/shop and grow/shop and grow/shop and grow country dedicated to further suburban sprawl, we will only compound the problem. Improving mileage by 10% or reducing emissions by 10% doesn't matter much if there are 20% more vehicles on the road and more vehicle-miles driven every ten years. Maybe there is a way to offer cheap public transportation to people who prove they are giving up an automobile commute to take a train or a bus. Might help. I don't think anything fundamental will ever really change. The notion that you can pick up a 300 million-person, $12 trillion economy and point it in another direction is spitting in the wind for the most part. JMHO. That said, I would start with fuel efficiency. I like your idea of subsidizing cleaner air in emerging market countries too.

To: Lane3 who wrote (19752)	5/28/2006 10:11:31 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543409

I agree that two of the big problems are industry and population- but the things you mention are things governments must do something about, and if governments aren't willing to do it, then the only things the individual can do are those things the individual as control over. We could just run wild and consume rampantly because we can't interest government (at the moment) to do much- but if we make a personal commitment to environmentalism, we are more likely to think about it on a daily basis, and influence other people, and if we influence enough other people then someday government may get interested in the problem. That is more than feel-good, imo.