Five Dollar Gas

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# 20348 bygiorgio gaviraghi on March 24, 2005, 2:42 p.m.
Member since 2022-08-22

i know
that's because american cities have been built around
transportaion availability
first the horse then the car
old world cities don't but that remain a limitation

> in faci we have cities with million of inhabitants
but
> without horses
> I hope that the car, in its actual shape as a
personal
> transportaion system, can go the same way of the
> horses in the near future
> we will still have the cities and we will live
better

I don't see that happening within a reasonable
time-frame in most of the
places I've lived; Washington D.C., Texas, North
Carolina and Wisconsin.

The cities mentioned (and, really, all cities in the
US) lack the dense
urban buildup that make anything besides a car
practical. So, sure, it
might be possible to move away from 'a personal
transportation system'
in some parts of the world, that's a non-starter idea
here.

So, yah, you might hope for it to happen, but I don't
see _how_.

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