Comments on: An Utopia In The Making? Auto Ban?? http://rummuser.com/?p=1380 Wisdom by Hindsight Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:10:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Rummuser http://rummuser.com/?p=1380&cpage=1#comment-6934 Rummuser Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:14:22 +0000 http://rummuser.com/?p=1380#comment-6934 Change may well be thrust on all of us before too long. It may not be in our generation, but say in twenty years from now, it may well be that long commutes will be a thing of the past. Indications of such change are already in the wind. Change may well be thrust on all of us before too long. It may not be in our generation, but say in twenty years from now, it may well be that long commutes will be a thing of the past. Indications of such change are already in the wind.

]]> By: Square Peg Guy http://rummuser.com/?p=1380&cpage=1#comment-6925 Square Peg Guy Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:56:35 +0000 http://rummuser.com/?p=1380#comment-6925 I used to ride a bicycle across 8 miles of flat terrain to get to work. But I did this only occasionally, on the nicest days, about twenty years ago. Today I live 10 miles from work, and the way is less flat, and the roads are more dangerous. I think I could adapt, but I would need to work fewer hours to allow for the longer commute and for going on errands. I haven't bothered to bike to work these days. It would save me only about $2.00 for a round trip. That $2.00 offsets more than an hour of commute time. But if I could get rid of the car completely, and if everyone else had to forsake the automobile, it might be a very good thing. .-= Square Peg Guy´s last blog ..<a href="http://square--peg.blogspot.com/2009/07/wednesday-weigh-in-20090701.html" rel="nofollow">Wednesday Weigh-In 20090701</a> =-. I used to ride a bicycle across 8 miles of flat terrain to get to work. But I did this only occasionally, on the nicest days, about twenty years ago. Today I live 10 miles from work, and the way is less flat, and the roads are more dangerous. I think I could adapt, but I would need to work fewer hours to allow for the longer commute and for going on errands.

I haven’t bothered to bike to work these days. It would save me only about $2.00 for a round trip. That $2.00 offsets more than an hour of commute time. But if I could get rid of the car completely, and if everyone else had to forsake the automobile, it might be a very good thing.
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]]> By: rummuser http://rummuser.com/?p=1380&cpage=1#comment-6829 rummuser Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:40:05 +0000 http://rummuser.com/?p=1380#comment-6829 The cars as we know them now, most certainly will. The cars as we know them now, most certainly will.

]]> By: rummuser http://rummuser.com/?p=1380&cpage=1#comment-6830 rummuser Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:39:18 +0000 http://rummuser.com/?p=1380#comment-6830 A number of scenarios offer themselves for consideration. Please see my response to Grannymar's comments. A number of scenarios offer themselves for consideration. Please see my response to Grannymar's comments.

]]> By: rummuser http://rummuser.com/?p=1380&cpage=1#comment-6831 rummuser Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:38:05 +0000 http://rummuser.com/?p=1380#comment-6831 No, travel will very much be there, like the old fashioned steamers, slow trains, boats, horse drawn carriages, etc to supplement bicycles, and other modes of transport of modern style and convenience. We will have energy from renewable sources to give us power for modern conveniences at home but living as we know will change to more clusters of small towns spread all over offering different economic activities in different places. Very much like the late late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries but with modern conveniences and communications. No, travel will very much be there, like the old fashioned steamers, slow trains, boats, horse drawn carriages, etc to supplement bicycles, and other modes of transport of modern style and convenience. We will have energy from renewable sources to give us power for modern conveniences at home but living as we know will change to more clusters of small towns spread all over offering different economic activities in different places. Very much like the late late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries but with modern conveniences and communications.

]]> By: rummuser http://rummuser.com/?p=1380&cpage=1#comment-6832 rummuser Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:33:57 +0000 http://rummuser.com/?p=1380#comment-6832 Thank you. Thank you.

]]> By: rummuser http://rummuser.com/?p=1380&cpage=1#comment-6833 rummuser Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:33:30 +0000 http://rummuser.com/?p=1380#comment-6833 You have got to come and visit us here in India Looney! You will have a choice of vehicles, and you can have your heart's content of maniacs behind wheels and handlebars. You have got to come and visit us here in India Looney! You will have a choice of vehicles, and you can have your heart's content of maniacs behind wheels and handlebars.

]]> By: rummuser http://rummuser.com/?p=1380&cpage=1#comment-6834 rummuser Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:32:07 +0000 http://rummuser.com/?p=1380#comment-6834 It would be impractical at the present moment. We may however well be pushed into that kind of living say in the next twenty years or so! It would be impractical at the present moment. We may however well be pushed into that kind of living say in the next twenty years or so!

]]> By: rummuser http://rummuser.com/?p=1380&cpage=1#comment-6835 rummuser Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:31:01 +0000 http://rummuser.com/?p=1380#comment-6835 Yes, it does. Yes, it does.

]]> By: rummuser http://rummuser.com/?p=1380&cpage=1#comment-6836 rummuser Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:30:27 +0000 http://rummuser.com/?p=1380#comment-6836 Ah Lizwi, I did not recommend that we do away with the computers and the internet did I? Ah Lizwi, I did not recommend that we do away with the computers and the internet did I?

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