tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11560235.post114864496612326033..comments2024-01-26T10:25:48.047-08:00Comments on shrimplate: Shrimpflationshrimplatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08347542266047278227noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11560235.post-1149138116125655562006-05-31T22:01:00.000-07:002006-05-31T22:01:00.000-07:00In the long run this could have some beneficial ef...In the long run this could have some beneficial effects. It could lead to more people using mass transit (not even as a matter of choice, but as a matter of necessity) and a corresponding investment in it.<BR/><BR/>Of course, I lived in the valley (hard to believe now, but I did) for a year in the late 1980's. At the time, they proposed spending some money on light rail. The anti-tax crowd won the election on the bond issues meant to fund it and they were voted down. So now, seventeen years later, light rail is finally being built in the valley, at more than ten times what it would have cost then.<BR/><BR/>You know darn well (at least I am sure that <I>you</I> do, after reading this post) that the <I>best</I> scenario we can hope for is that we relatively painlessly make the transition to a European type of society where people share the resources and they are managed for the common good, and people still have those little Eurocars for necessary use, that get 50 miles on a precious gallon of very expensive fuel. Any other model (like the mother of all depressions as you are suggesting is coming, or the horribly impoverished/fabulously wealty/little in between third world model, or the revolutionary communist model) are worse than that. <BR/><BR/>These are frightening thoughts, but wanting to work towards the best of these options, I am very much in favor of mass transit. Even in rural areas like here, there are things we can do.Eli Blakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00792743206074537073noreply@blogger.com