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justinsb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 09:16 AM
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8. The solution in that case
is to start promoting mass transit and changes in zoning that will allow doctors, grocery stores, schools and business to be closer and/or move back into the cities and out of the suburbs. Those are local issues with local solutions that do not involve bush, and do not justify what would have to be done to drive gas prices down. In Canada and Europe fuel is always more expensive than it is in the states. That has been true for decades (and Canada has oil, we are an oil exporter and the largest single supplier to the US). This time it's the US, it's cities and suburbs, that has to change
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