In response to an article in the ‘Smithsonian,’ April 2001
You think you have a right to drive your big fat stinking car around here? You think that just because you have put yourself thousands of dollars into debt you have the total right to drive alone along the congested highways to your workplace? Well you do. But you shouldn’t. Every year Americans waste billions of gallons of gas, just sitting in traffic. Is that the traffic’s fault? Yes. Of course you ARE the traffic you know. So it’s your fault. Right now more American parents spend more time in their commute daily than they spend with their own children. Hello? Does that even make sense?
For years the problem of traffic has continued to decline and get worse. We’ve got some of our top computer and human resources, like Los Alamos (the lab best known for creating the atom bomb), committed to trying to solve the traffic problem. They’ve come up with TRANSIMS a massive program that helps in their research to find a solution to our problem. Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t there still a couple of diseases hanging around that they could work on? Or how about peace? Isn’t that a priority anymore? What I’m saying here is that we have billions and billions of dollars in waste and resources going into OUR TRAFFIC COMMUTE. Hey, I’ve got a good idea—how about you fucking carpool every once in a while? How about that? How about you do a little bit to help us all out as far as pollution and gas? Look at this: 3 and some odd million people ego into the city of Atlanta every day. Out of those people 2.4 million of them ride ONE to a vehicle. Why the hell are we making our cars bigger and bigger to seat ONE PERSON for the majority of the car life? WHY? Does this not make any sense to anyone else?
What we need to do is make the roads smaller, not wider. I want to force every mother fucker in a Suburban taking their one lonely ass to work every day to take the stinking train. I want them to start petitioning the city to put in better mass transit so that people actually have a viable option that is as cheap as driving and nearly as fast. I mean come on when the average commute is upwards of 40 minutes there has got to be a train that can beat that. Also in this article it stated that 45% of people use this time in the commute to think and have some alone time. And at first glance this may seem all sorts of warm and fuzzy, until you realize that these people are busy listening to their bull shit books on tape and meditation CDs and NOT DRIVING THE FUCKING CARS!!!
Wow that makes me feel loads safer. In NY City in 1900 horses were dropping 2.5 million pounds of manure on the streets every day. Automotive vehicles were seen as a cleaner alternative. Of course this was back in the day when they could not have foreseen the dense smog clouds that would hover over ever Major City world wide largely due to vehicular emissions.
What else is a waste of feal? Hey gues what gym enthusiasts. You're numero uno on my list. Never in my life have I heard of a greater incongruency of logic than in the person who drives and hour to work out and spend an hour on the stationary bike. Here's a thought. Buy a real bike and save yourself an hour every day.
Well you heard it here--now get busy!
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