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- From: pauld@cs.washington.edu (Paul Barton-Davis)
- Subject: Re: Distributed Power
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.182717.1823@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
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- References: <1993Jan20.145326.28997@ke4zv.uucp> <1993Jan20.185622.5446@vexcel.com> <Jym.25Jan1993.0328@naughty-peahen>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 18:27:17 GMT
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- In article <Jym.25Jan1993.0328@naughty-peahen> Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu> writes:
- >In article <1993Jan20.185622.5446@vexcel.com> dean@vexcel.com
- >(Dean Alaska) writes:
- >> Since, historically, central power generation has worked well,
- >> and mass transit hasn't, a conservative view is that we should
- >> stick with proven methods.
- >
- >=\= I don't quite agree with either historical premise. I
- >think the track record of central power generation shows great
- >variance. Ditto for mass transit, which works very well in
- >Europe. (And driving automobiles everywhere is very destructive
- >-- hardly a "proven method.")
-
- I'm not entirely sure what it means to say that "mass transit works
- [ very ] well in Europe". What can be said is that many more people
- use it, many more people rely on it, less people drive, there are less
- cars per capita.
-
- I don't know enough about economic analysis to know if its possible to
- figure out which is the cart and which is the horse in this situation,
- or even to what extent these observations are related.
-
- -- paul
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- distorted rather than straightforward; ambiguous rather than| I Don't Know
- articulated; both-and rather than either-or; the difficult | and You Don't
- unity of inclusion rather than the easy unity of exclusion. | Know Either
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