Article View: la.general
Article #630Re: Question
From: richard
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 02:28
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 02:28
23 lines
2262 bytes
2262 bytes
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:25:53 -0600, Joey Jolley wrote: > What will Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, and other American > cities look like in 20 years and what will be the primary form of > transportation? What will happen to single-family home neighborhoods, > existing businesses, streets, freeways, etc.? Answer: Same as they do now. As long as the major auto producers insist upon spilling out zillions of gas guzzling vehicles, don't expect any major changes soon. In the early fifties, we were told that in the mid sixties, we would have automated highways for long distance travel. Every ten years we get told there isn't enough fuel to last 30 years. Since the mid 70's the push has been to increase the mpg. It ain't happened yet has it? With some minor changes to a diesel engine, they can be made to run on pure unused veggie oil. Every home in the world could have it's own power source but that ain't gonna happen either as the big conglomerates would be put out of business. So don't be lookin for any major changes in the next 30 years at least.
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<5x3wh8b6g1gv.sj7j6q7jmq8b$.dlg@40tude.net>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news7References:
<4bd248a4$0$87076$815e3792@news.qwest.net>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Thread: 107d03,ddb83b3b8a72455a X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Thread: f824f,ddb83b3b8a72455a X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Thread: fd3ff,ddb83b3b8a72455a X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Thread: f7890,ddb83b3b8a72455a X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gid36df37d679,gidef6c819e65,gidb3b48bb58b,gid1e5380825,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news7 From: richard <member@newsguy.com> Newsgroups: la.general,ba.general,ba.transportation,misc.transport.road Subject: Re: Question Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:28:26 -0700 Organization: loose flaps Lines: 23 Message-ID: <5x3wh8b6g1gv.sj7j6q7jmq8b$.dlg@40tude.net> References: <4bd248a4$0$87076$815e3792@news.qwest.net> Reply-To: member@newsguy.com NNTP-Posting-Host: p924fe12fbf4a4ed54f165c11960dcd7f9f2bea0e626f98c4.newsdawg.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1