I also lived in Paris briefly. Though it is filled with cars and congestion, it is even more expensive to own a car than in the US. I think that basically applies to most of Europe in general. As well Paris is a relatively expensive place to live, even with out a car.

And that was the point. That cities where one can enjoy a high quality of life with out an automobile are in fact expensive places to live, as opposed to Goob's assertion that car free city life would be cheaper.


That's just more obstacles to dodge. I tell you with the hills, twisty streets, cool weather, nice scenery and the PCH near by, that place is made for motorcycles.

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I did not write the oil companies own the petrol stations, I wrote that they "have" them. There is a difference. The franchise model is probably basicly the same throughout the world, when it comes to petrol stations. It is still in the interest of the large oil companies to make research etc. for the benefit of the retailers that have franchise agreements with them.

Thus, your critique misses the point.

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Muscle cars give us a hard on.




We don‘t want anyone telling us what were allowed or not allowed to drive.
Our fathers and those before them worked to hard and fought for so much for us to sit idly in the night and see American prosperity stagnated by a bunch of fucking pansies that don’t know there asses from a hole in the ground.
There are 42,000,000 trees per car on this planet (And we get 74% of our air from the oceans.).
You are here to enjoy life (Life does not suck and then you die, life is wonderful and then you live for ever.).

If you don’t look forward to getting up in the morning for your cool job and driving your hot car with your coffee and cigarettes your already where you are told by the deceivers the world will be someday (Please don’t tell me you guys buy your cars based on gas mileage.).

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The two echos and the (little tiny) truck in our driveway would say that we did buy our cars based on gas mileage.

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Oh my goodness, you poor thing.
Dude run, run away from these people and live your life as the biggest blast and most fun you can.
I used to drive a California rail to work in the rain just for the exhilaration.
Don’t get up dreading work or the drive. Make it to where you can’t wait to get up and drive to work. This is America, thats what weve fought and worked for since the dawn of civilization…
You should hear yourselves.

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Agreed, they left out the part where the car cost 17 million dollars and uses $300.oo worth of platinum per run…

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My point was few retail outlets other than the small number of units used for model testing no longer exist for the sole purpose of selling oil company products. The accompanying mini-marts and other such businesses provide higher margins than fuel. An acquaintance owns a medium-sized oil products distribution company that includes gasoline and diesel products. They distribute their products to retail outlets that have brand names, but all gasoline and diesel they sell comes out of two pipelines with no branding. Various refineries contribute to the supply, but no single oil company provides raw product. That comes from futures market contracts with whomever gets the business. Research is confined to marketing of brand names and their supposed additive superiority, additives that are added at the retail pump. He says the oil companies he deals with have little concern regarding product quality improvement with delivering adequate supplies of acceptable quality being their market function.

Maybe we had a smaller tank.

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Actually, no. I've never had a sexual response to a vehicle, and I don't know anyone who has.

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Or, perhaps you should learn to take a little responsibility. "Having fun" doesn't have to mean destroying the planet.


Oh, and America appeared more than 4000 years after the "dawn of civilization."

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This is one of the rare posts where he didn't blame commies for something.

Get outta town, it’s not like I’m Nancy Pelosi commuting to work in a commercial airliner.
The world “as our bodies” was designed to repair itself, it’s not possible for us to hurt it (The ocean in one day produces thousands of times more ozone then we have in our industrial age. Past volcanic eruptions, meteorite hits and giant forest fires have thrown more at her then we ever could. Besides, were exiting our polluting industrial age now anyway.
It’s like McDonalds French fries being evil, it’s a pleasure taken away by force.
If your enjoying everything in life you don’t need those empowered by things being awful. All of these doom and gloom 60’s emergencies are Marxism techniques. First to go was religion, then prosperity and happiness to where you need the government to rescue you from what they tell you is bad.

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I simply bought a car because i had to in order to get to a job that is really not cool.

I would absolutely look forward to getting up in the morning if it did not mean i had to go to a job, sit in traffic, and do it all over again every day for a few decades.

If someone knows how to get out this trap please let me know....

Andrew

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Debt reduction - sell up if you have to. Then follow your passions.