Re: Obama announces solution to the gasoline crisis...

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
richard wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:

Obama announces solution to the gasoline crisis...

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=71044

...Jim Thompson

A better idea would be to exhort Americans to get off their arses and rediscover how to walk.



A better idea would be for idiots like you to mind your own business.
America isn't a tiny sardine can sized country with 300 square foot
lots. There are miles & miles of miles & miles of open space. It is a
six mile round trip to the grocery, 20+ mile round trip to the doctor's
office. It is 150 mile round trip to the VA hospital.

If you really want to stop wasted fuel in the US, I guess we could
shut down the international airports, and ship all the tourists home on
freighters.



Hey, I'm aware of the vast distances in the USA. I drove from LA to Las Vegas over unpaved roads and on route 66 passing by some extinct volcanos where the car became stuck at nightfall. It was with trepidation that I got out of the car to piss lest I attract the IR vision of a passing sidewinder.

It is well known that Americans are the most obese nation on the earth.
Most probably because they spend too much time pigging out and too little time exercising.
Of course this is a generalisation, but I have worked in El Segundo and my experience is drawn from visits to a "restaurant" where we would consume large burgers and glasses of ale while watching a football game.
Or instead we might drive to the "blue goose" on Century where we could watch young ladies exercising in their bottom underwear.

While we might have done this on occasion, it seemed to be the main occupation of the blue collar workers there.

I also observed that, many people would commute for hours (car pooling) so that they could live in cheaper areas of the county (or state). I don't think that people would disagree if I said that the transport infrastructure there was underdeveloped. Third world even :-)

My sister did post doc work at Harvard. In that area they had brand new trains. She boarded one - but it went at a snail's pace. On asking other passengers if there was something wrong with the train, she was told that the track was completely knackered and they were going at the maximum safe speed.

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