From: Adam Flinton 

Robert Comer wrote:
>>How soon before Honda city motorbikes/scooters start filling up US &
>>European streets.....OK in Rome they never went away but....?
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> We Americans commute too far for things like that. :(
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For now....

If you want to commute long distances how about electric/diesel electric trains?


Adam

> - Bob Comer
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> "Adam"  wrote in message
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>>Monte Davis wrote:
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>>>Adam  wrote:
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>>>>Yup & until recently none of the models included the
"new capitalists"
>>>>i.e. the extra 3 billion wannabe BMW drivers...
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>>>
>>>I have a magazine article on this in the works. 30-40 years ago, the
>>>scary future a half-century out was the population bomb: there'd be
>>>20+ billion poor and starving people, Calcutta writ large.
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>>>Now it's more like a prosperity bomb: population projections level out
>>>at 10 billion or less, but if Asian economic growth keeps up, they'll
>>>have much more buying power -- and impact on resources and the
>>>environment -- than the 20+ billion, and the G8 family won't stay
>>>incomparably the richest family on the block. We've been telling them all
>>>along to control population, embrace the
>>>market, open to global trade. Who knew those devious, inscrutable wogs
>>>would actually *do* it...?
>>>
>>>-Monte 
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>>Imagine the gall of out-bidding us for our oil.....
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>>Waddyamean it's not our oil.......?
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>>How soon before Honda city motorbikes/scooters start filling up US &
>>European streets.....OK in Rome they never went away but....?
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>>Adam
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