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June 15, 2008 at 11:29 pm
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Have a Captain Cook at this commentary from the US of A:
CNSNews.com: The Threat to the Car
Recent evidence that automobile use is declining in America and that some Americans are making significant — and in some cases not readily reversible — changes in their lives because of escalating gas prices should be worrisome signs for those who love liberty.
No device is more in keeping with the American spirit than the automobile. Privately owned cars and trucks allow us to go where we want, when want. They are freedom machines.
Cripes. Better hide that subscription to ReNew before the AFP kick the door down.
Still, some liberals would like to use government to force Americans out of their cars.
They believe in socialized transportation, not free-market transportation.
In a free-market transportation system, a person purchases his own vehicle with his own money, buys his own gas with his own money and can drive his vehicle anywhere there is a road — and, if he has the right kind of vehicle, some places where there are no roads.
Admittedly, the roads generally are constructed by government, albeit with funds extracted from the earnings and gasoline purchases of drivers.
In a socialist transportation system, the government takes the taxpayers’ money and purchases vehicles — often buses or trains — for itself or a government-funded agency. Where and when these vehicles go is determined by the government.
Well I’ll be fucked. Mystery solved, thats where the Doncaster train went.
In a free-market transportation system, a person travels solely in the company of people with whom he has freely chosen to travel. In a socialist transportation system, a person may be compelled to travel in the company of people he does not know and who could even be a danger to him.
I have no doubt that most Americans who love the freedom of movement they derive from owning and operating a car or truck have recognized efforts by various levels of government to induce them to stop, or limit, their driving and cajole or compel them to leave the free-market transportation system and submit to the socialist transportation system.
Yeah, actually public transport shits me at time too, but not to the paranoid extent this chap seems to be chewing hard on. I’ll spare you the rest, read the entire article at the link supplied above. But you do need to peruse this bit:
Hopefully, the 8 percent who have taken to socialized transportation represents a trend that can be reversed.
We should drill our own oil — now. And, when the supply naturally diminishes to where prices drive the market elsewhere, American entrepreneurs must create another fuel whose production the government cannot readily curtail, and that keeps Americans driving where they want to, when they want to, in privately owned cars.
You should kiss your arse goodbye — now.
Luckily in retrospect bicycles weren’t mentioned in this commentary, as anything to the right of Genghis Khan is probably a Castro aficionado to T. P. Jeffrey. I was going to attempt a reasonable deconstruction of steaming pile of denial bollox, but my personal time is probably better utilised by finishing up a delicious homebrew stout and basking in the glow of a reasonably pleasant day that avoided the EastLink muppet ride.
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“Well I’ll be fucked. Mystery solved, thats where the Doncaster train went.”
Oh, too funny. Jesus wept. I was just sitting here cracking wise about bringe drinking and that just topped my morning. I suspect CNS isn’t one of the world’s more famous news outlets.
Daniel wrote @ June 16th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Amusing, as some socialists in the past have strongly supported cars as being transport for the people.
How about putting it this way: transport is dominated by roads because governments dictates that people have little alternative to driving.
In a true free market, there would be a viable alternative, and the market would make the choice: expensive, polluting driving, or cheap efficient PT/walking/cycling. But most of us have no such choice. Urban transport is a monopoly.
Personally, I want the liberty to be able to move unencumbered by a big chunk of metal, burning fuel as I travel.
Never mind, peak oil will sort these idiots out.
cfsmtb wrote @ June 16th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
I’m very capable of a Ladette turn-of-phrase when it’s required, but in all seriousness I’m trying to cut back on the potty mouth.
Aren’t RWDBs are such amusing creatures?
NancyBoy wrote @ June 16th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Wow! The most amazing part is that they are convinced that their government led by GW Shrub is pushing its evil socialist agenda by denying freedom loving individuals their right to access their god given gasoline.
On this guy’s scale, road building is a socialist government plot also. After all, who decides where the road is going to go?
Sometimes a little potty-mouth is well justified. It doesn’t actually hurt anyone. I wouldn’t hold your breath waiting for any of our governments to spend on public transport. The next big socialist experiment we see will be the Eastern Freeway-Spotswood mega-tunnel-freeway.
(Daniel) Nothing will sort these idiots out. They’ve got stockpiles of guns!
Rob wrote @ June 18th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
yep..the Mccarthy-ists are alive and well and driving Uncle Sam’s Red Neck’s paranoia over anything to do with sense and reasonable behaviour… its a socitey dominated by self… me me me me, and that prawn is a prime example… needs dragging up the rigging of Captain Blighs lifeboat and flogged till his nose bleeds oil and then some one light a match to illuminate his arse to the fact the world aint the sole property of Uncle Sam and the looneys who run its business and politics…, when the morons on TV in the US identify Australia on the map as Iran, hey that’s choice, and when they say in response to a street TV interviewer “in the Middle East who are the Isrealis?”, and respond “ummm, Yo! I reckon dey be AlQuaeda Terrorists right!!”with all the conviction of a southern white trash gun toting obese KKK member, so we know we are safe when their masters have their fingers on the button fuggit!… the sooner we run out of oil the better!
In a way I’m glad Oz is so isolated geographically, shame it wasnt more isolated electronically and politically from that rubbish thought and behaviour!
Helen wrote @ June 21st, 2008 at 11:28 am
American entrepreneurs must create another fuel whose production the government cannot readily curtail,
*Slaps forehead* That’s it, all we need to do is …create another fuel!!!1! (employing entrepreneurs to do it, although I’m not sure if they have any scientific or engineering training.) So simple! Why did we not see it?!?
cfsmtb wrote @ June 21st, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Create another fuel? Depends what theory they want to believe, i.e.: biogenic or abiogenic. Although over use of petroleum products could force the oceans back into a anoxic state, which fits the biogenic theory nicely.
Think I need to do a overdue Cat blog post & get my mind off this for a little while …
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