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  1. Newsgroups: sci.environment
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!yale.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!pacbell.com!pbhye!mjvande
  3. From: mjvande@pbhye.PacBell.COM (Mike Vandeman)
  4. Subject: Re: Save the Planet and the Economy at the Same time!
  5. Reply-To: mjvande@PacBell.COM (Mike Vandeman)
  6. Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
  7. Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 00:03:13 GMT
  8. Message-ID: <1992Dec29.000313.714@pbhye.PacBell.COM>
  9. References: <1992Dec24.211950.7768@pbhye.PacBell.COM> <725427091snx@tillage.DIALix.oz.au>
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  12. >to the global problems we have. On the other hand, you might like to
  13. >visit Guangzhou during peak-hour; getting stuck in a traffic jam of
  14. >*bicycles* clogging up a four lane highway for literally miles, with
  15. >whole convoys of trucks and official vehicles just stuck there until
  16. >it clears, is no rational idea of progress whatsoever.
  17.  
  18. Why not? would you prefer all the bicyclists to be in cars? You make
  19. no sense.
  20.