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Automotive News & Views How does gas at $4 and higher impact you?
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Replying to: gagrice (Nov 06, 2008 1:24 pm) You ever been on I-5 between SF and LA on a Friday evening? Sunday afternoon? ANY and EVERY public holiday? It's amazing we don't have more fatalities than we do out there, and the stressfulness of driving it makes the whole trip an unpleasant prospect. Flying stinks, and you know it's only going to get worse. Already consumer surveys find that people don't think of any industry in worse terms than the airlines, except for the rare occasions when insurance scores lower. I agree 100% with that sentiment. You wait and wait, and then you wait some more when you fly. You are searched, your belongings are searched, you end up late at your destination (if your flight isn't overbooked or cancelled altogether), and half the time your luggage is misdirected, only to be available to you 24 hours after arrival. With lead times and delays in leaving the airport at the other end, it's a 3-hour-plus job to fly between SF and LA. The train will do it in less. As for your security comments, well I don't know if there have been more terror attacks on trains than on planes (sounds wrong intuitively though), but I do know that more than seven years after 9/11 we still have the very onerous security procedures for plane-boarding, and NONE for trains. Seven years. If it hasn't happened by now, it isn't likely to.
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Replying to: lemko (Nov 06, 2008 10:03 am) |
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Replying to: nippononly (Nov 06, 2008 1:35 pm) Amtrak carried a record 28.7 million people last year, with each of its routes seeing gains, the national passenger railroad said Friday. ... as illustrating the absurdity of the Proposition 1A folks' claim that their high-speed rail system would carry 100 million people a year. He's absolutely right. Amtrak has about 300 trains linking more than 500 destinations in 46 states on 21,000 miles of routes, but we're told to believe that California high-speed rail, with its handful of stops and its smallish trains, would draw vastly more riders. How can they say this stuff with a straight face? But, then again, just about everything in Prop. 1A is made up out of thin air, as I noted in the last item of Sunday's print column. And voters just might buy it, pathetically enough. http://weblog.signonsandiego.com/weblogs/afb/archives/028193.html |
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Replying to: larsb (Nov 06, 2008 9:34 am) Did they just legalize dope in your state? Are you kidding? There was a reason that private rail companies dumped passenger rail 50 years ago...IT WAS A MONEY LOSER. Passenger rail doesn't generate anything but debt. And by the way, those 450,000 new jobs will probably be tax collectors to squeeze the last penny out of CA citizens. 
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Replying to: gagrice (Nov 06, 2008 3:58 pm)
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Replying to: larsb (Nov 06, 2008 9:34 am) Calling somebody a hater?
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Replying to: murphydog (Nov 06, 2008 5:12 pm) |
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Replying to: gagrice (Nov 06, 2008 3:58 pm) "But, then again, just about everything in Prop. 1A is made up out of thin air, as I noted in the last item of Sunday's print column. And voters just might buy it, pathetically enough. " And they did, 52.3% if only there were more California voters who thought like g. Btw oil closed at $60.77 /bbl today making the absurd economics g pointed out even more absurd. Sorry g, California voters, they pout, they whine, they say dude. Even the KFC proposition2 "PROP 2 Standards for Confining Farm Animals. Initiative Statute. Requires that certain farm animals be allowed, for the majority of every day, to fully extend their limbs or wings, lie down, stand up and turn around. Limited exceptions apply. Fiscal Impact: Potential unknown decrease in state and local tax revenues from farm businesses, possibly in the range of several million dollars annually. Potential minor local and state enforcement and prosecution costs, partly offset by increased fine revenue. " Or as many like to say, dow down 483, 929 points in 2 days, relief perhaps after mid month but no obama bounce. But it's all good dude. What in the hell does that mean? Obviously some is not good.. Rather a vapid 90's phrase that when one connects an upper left hook to your mandible you'll reply with the rhetoric that it's all good. Well alrighty then.
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Replying to: duke23 (Nov 06, 2008 7:42 pm) Makes $4 gas seem unimportant. We are in an enormous monetary crisis and people are afraid a chicken does not get proper exercise. We have people that cannot afford eggs right now and CA voters want to raise the price. Well China and India will raise chickens for eggs. CA is the Garlic capitol of the World. Or so I thought. I bought a bag of 3 nice garlic bulbs and when I got it home it says right on it. Product of China. CA is hell bent on running every bit of industry out of the state. At least CA has cheap enough gas right now for people to pack up from their foreclosed homes and get out of this state before it implodes. The only jobs will be for illegals mowing the grass of retired people and working in Mexican Restaurants. Good thing I love Mexican food. The cheaper the better.
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And if things in CA weren't bad enough, isn't the Governator proposing a 1.5% increase to the sales tax rate (taking the rate in LA County to over 10%) to cover a budget shortfall predicted for the next few years? 100 million passengers? There are 36 million people living in the state of California; are we to expect that every person in the state (from Blythe to Humboldt) will ride this new train 3 times a year? It's not like it will be a commuter train (which does exist in SoCal by the way - and would run fine except for the engineers texting civilians when they should be looking at the signals), where someone would travel from SF to LA for the day, then return in the evening. |
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