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In article <1992Sep15.135520.23409@hfsi.uucp> ata@hfsi.UUCP (John Ata FSO) writes:
>In article <1992Sep14.202832.17114@linus.mitre.org> woycke@smiley.mitre.org (Daniel Woycke) writes:
>>In article <1992Sep11.165834.6721@hfsi.uucp> ata@hfsi.UUCP (John Ata FSO) writes:
>>>In article <1992Sep10.134253.22715@linus.mitre.org> woycke@smiley.mitre.org (Daniel Woycke) writes:
>
>Are you saying that you don't want to spend a little more money on
>a car so that you can have a less polluting car?  Dan, I'm suprised
>and shocked! :)
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No, I am not saying that. What I was saying is that there are some
people out there who do not earn a "living wage" and so buy whatever
car they can afford. If it happens to pollute, so what. I understand
this line of thinking since we don't have an adequate mass transit
system.

I think you don't realize that even if we did have an adequate mass
transit system the inertia of the single occupant car will continue.
People do not care about the environment unless it doesn't cause them
inconvinience (or maybe too much inconvinience).  We now all recycle
like good boys and girls, but we still pollute in order of leaving for
work when we want to. It won't matter to any of those folks on the two
lanes of the toll road. They don't care whether they pollute or save
money. All they care about is having their car so they don't have to
sacrifice 30 minutes to carpool. (which they loose in congestion).

John, if the Sterling Commuter Bus started running to Tyson's Corner
would you take it when time would allow?

Thank You,

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