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David L. Cathey (davidc@montagar.com) wrote:
: In article <1994Nov15.152953.13836@mksol.dseg.ti.com>, mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (Fred McCall) writes:
: > Mike Ronn (micron@5a.com) wrote:
: > : >And just how much gasoline tax was collected from those bicycles?
: > : >None, you say?  Then it seems quite a stretch to try to claim that
: > : >money should be spent for the benefit of a minority.
: > 
: > : How much air was polluted by those bicycles that warrented the gas tax to 
: > : clean up?
: > 
: > The gasoline taxes are used for road construction, not pollution
: > control.  So, how do you ride your bike without touching the roadway? 

Once again, Dave, you seem somewhat confused as to what the thread
looks like that you are responding to.

: 	When was one of those roads of yours built because of bike traffic?

They weren't.  I think this is a strike against you and the bikes who
insist you have the right to use them, not against anything I said.
Did you have a point with this?

: But yes, I've paid plenty in gas, income, sales, and property taxes, so I've
: have paid for my share of use of the public roadways.

No, you've paid for your share of their use by the vehicles on which
you've paid the road use taxes.  Bikes pay no such taxes.  Of course,
this, too, has nothing to do with what I was actually responding to,
which was the ridiculous assertion that somehow because bikes don't
burn gasoline that the bikers are owed some share of the cost of
cleaning up the air that they *would* have polluted if they had driven
rather than biked.

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 in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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