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> I personally think that charging for each form of transporta-
> tion at-cost would be a sort of "natural selection" step in
> the right direction . . .

=-= True enough, except that your list of costs is the same one
that's been posted here a few dozen times already:

> . . . cost of road maintenance . . .
> . . . fare prices for riding mass transit . . . would be borne
> entirely out-of-pocket by the user.

I've already addressed the problems with this list (see my
``Re: "Libertarian" ways to handle cars'', from 22-May-1992,
message-ID <JYM.92May22100537@remarque.berkeley.edu>, in both
of these newsgroups).  They remain unaddressed.

=-= In brief:

  (1) "Cost of road maintenance" doesn't go far enough.  What
      about the environmental and health costs?

  (2) Transportation is systemic.  Their costs are intertwined;
      so separating them for purposes of accounting just creates
      an arbitrary and unfair division.

I'm not surprised that some people would miss (2), but to miss
or avoid (1) makes no sense to me, especially in a newsgroup
with a name like ca.environment.
    <_Jym_>