From: "Robert Comer" 

> For now....

It isn't going to change anytime soon, we're far to distributed.

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

Trains? They're even more scarce than short commutes for all but the
biggest cities here.

Now diesel, electric, gas/electric hybrids, hydrogen, they're coming. (very
slowly).  When my Subaru died, one of the cars I looked as was a
gasoline/electric hybrid.  (not in my price range it ended up, and a
waiting list to get it. :(

Another car I looked at was a TDI, none available until the week after I
bought my car. :(

- Bob Comer


"Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
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> Robert Comer wrote:
>>>How soon before Honda city motorbikes/scooters start filling up US &
>>>European streets.....OK in Rome they never went away but....?
>>
>>
>> We Americans commute too far for things like that. :(
>>
>
> For now....
>
> If you want to commute long distances how about electric/diesel electric
> trains?
>
>
> Adam
>
>> - Bob Comer
>>
>>
>> "Adam"  wrote in message
>> news:42b6b4c1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>
>>>Monte Davis wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Adam  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Yup & until recently none of the models included
the "new capitalists"
>>>>>i.e. the extra 3 billion wannabe BMW drivers...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>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 
>>>
>>>
>>>Imagine the gall of out-bidding us for our oil.....
>>>
>>>Waddyamean it's not our oil.......?
>>>
>>>How soon before Honda city motorbikes/scooters start filling up US &
>>>European streets.....OK in Rome they never went away but....?
>>>
>>>Adam
>>
>>

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