"Hatunen" wrote in message
news:2o13d25ae0e5sqhhvigaf9ev3gqfos7poq@4ax.com...
> On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 03:01:52 GMT, "Alohacyberian"
> wrote:
>
>>"Brian ..." wrote in message
>>news:1154523114.553954.274010@s13g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>>> Looks like our love affair with the automobile is slowly coming to
>>> an end. I think mass transit, walking, and biking are going to take
>>> over most of our transportation needs.
>>>
>>
>>Uh-huh. Since auto sales increase worldwide every year, the converse
>>seems
>>to be the case. KM
>
> Note: " American Love Affair With Cars Seen Waning" is not the
> same as "World's Love Affair With Cars Seen Waning".
There is no waning of cars in America or the World. Transit use is
typically on the decline world wide as income goes up and people abandon
transit for cars. China and India for example are having a rapid increase
of car ownership as incomes have increased at least for part of the society.
There is no known mechanism that will decrease car use in the future or
increase transit use in the future.
All the article said is there is frustration among drivers with nothing said
about the frustrations of transit use.
The original poster made the ridiculous assumption that because their is
frustration then people will jump to transit. An illogical conclusion.
That is along the same lines of "since we don't have perfect knowledge of
evolution we must teach intelligent design" which is of course absurd.
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