Re: Gas prices knock bicycle sales, repairs into higher gear

In article <pan.2008.05.16.18.30.07.111191@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
	Matt O'Toole <mattotoole@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> On Tue, 13 May 2008 17:35:27 +0000, Stephen Harding wrote:
> 
>> max wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm thinkin that the law of unintended consequences might just find us
>>> watching (for example) our beloved Illinois Prairie Path, Fox River
>>> Trail and Great Western trail and Virgil Gilman trail disappear under
>>> the ballast of a light rail line in oh... twenty years or less.
>>> 
>>> I'm just sayin.
>> 
>> But technically, that's what the proclaimed purpose of "rail banking"
as
>> promoted by Rails-to-Trails groups.  Save these rights of way for
future
>> use when maglev of whatever reoccupies them.  In the meantime, they
become
>> public recreational facilities.
>> 
>> Personally, I don't think they'll ever get converted back.  We'll be
>> driving around in our personal hydrogen powered vehicles before we have
to
>> choose re-creating a passenger rail network.
> 
> I doubt the hydrogen dream will ever be realized, at least in our
> lifetime.  But just try to take those trails away once people are used
to
> them.

Maybe that real estate will be "needed" for biofuel-producing
crops so that our expensive, im****ted cabbages 'n spuds can
still be ****pped over long distances.  That is, if /anybody/
would still be growing food crops instead of biofuel crops.


cheers,
	Tom

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