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To: KyrosL who wrote (49648)	5/5/2009 11:59:26 PM
From: Maurice Winn	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218009

Mandatory car pooling? You mean have police catching anyone with fewer than two people in a car? It would help the impoverished get work sitting in cars to be "car poolers". They could wait at traffic lights to be picked up as a "car pool" worker. As usual, the idea "have Big Brother force people to do sensible things" is full of unintended consequences which a moment's thought would show as obvious. There is ZERO reason to force car pooling. Simply price roads correctly and people will make sensible economic decisions. If you don't want to be dependent on foreign oil, simply tax the stuff at the border and cut taxes on cyberspace by the same amount. Then, people will do things locally instead of using expensive foreign oil [such as find or invent something else, use cyberspace instead of driving, move closer to work, buy insulation, buy a little vehicle such as a bicycle, etc, etc in millions of ways]. If you think the USA can be isolationist and still have a US$ worth much more than a yuan, then you would get a big surprise when the US$ falls hugely as swarms of we aliens sell them for whatever we can get. Mqurice