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well, as i've noticed in the carolinas----the communities are not walkable at all and it is very much a car place.......people need a way to get to all the sprawl........I really really wish people would take action to reduce it.
Disagree. That's too all-inclusive of a statement. I've been able to walk in South Charlotte just fine. All of the cities I've seen in the Carolinas have sidewalks and crosswalks. I can't think of any other plausible pre-requisite needed for walking to a destination. There's also CATS and the LYNX here, to which I see more and more business commuters line up at stops as the price of gas goes up (a free market reaction, who'd have thought?). I believe Raleigh, too, has a bus system.
Walkable communities? I would argue that is not of any practical value to a city. In reality, any city is walkable, it's just an argument over the amount of time to do so (e.g. what is "reasonable"?). We venture into arbitrary thought with those type of questions. People need to make their own choices: good, poor, or otherwise, and take responsibility for those actions. I'm not here to be anyone's parent (counsel, maybe, but not parent).
Personally, I've decided to stay as close to home as possible this weekend. I'm putting my chips on the gas dropping mid-week (if not sooner) as Ike rolls through the Midwest, and will have plenty of fuel until that time.
I got gas, I needed gas, I paid $.30 more than I should have but I just needed it. I did drive buy several gas stations with lines and some of those had bumped gas $1. I drove by a station on my way home $.10 high, wjhich to me is fine. They did shut down some refineries.. but alas.. People do panic a bit. But reality is half of us don't prepare at all. How many have enough batteries, candles, water, etc to go for a week. Just a week.
well, as i've noticed in the carolinas----the communities are not walkable at all and it is very much a car place.......people need a way to get to all the sprawl........I really really wish people would take action to reduce it.
Where did you live, the woods or in a ghetto? No problem where I live. Oh, I see, you are from upstate N.Y. Maybe some day we will do it like it is done there. By the way, do you still live here? Please tell us how to get away from all the sprawl. Oh yea, I forget, people are not moving to upstate N.Y. by the hundreds of thousands and any suggestion would be speculation. Not enough of that around.
I truly do not think that the gas panic had anything to do with politics or the oil companies. I feel that some may have been over reactionary. But, nothing wrong with that. I think if anything, it would have been a conspiracy at the gas stations and local distributors to raise the prices. In reality, it is usually them or OPEC that is the problem.
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