Re: Creeks and Sprawl (was: An example of how zealots . . .)

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From: George Neville-Neil
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1992 15:34

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In article <SLAGLE.92Jun3001118@sgi417.msd.lmsc.lockheed.com>, slagle@lmsc.lockheed.com (Mark Slagle) writes:
|> All of which would seem to argue for a small-scale, flexible
|> commuter transportation system.  Maybe we should try individual
|> commuter units.  Maybe we could call them auto-mobiles, to
|> mean self-transport units.  You suppose anybody'd buy one?

Sure they'd buy them, if we suckered them into believing that
they represented the American Dream, Mom, and apple pie.  Oh,
tell them that they're sexy too, that'll go over big.  You don't
have to make much of a pitch.  Americans are stupid enough to 
buy anything.

-- 
All of English literature is one big in joke, and a poor one at that.

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