Here in Atlanta, GA, home of the longest average commute in the United
States (I think it's 36 miles a day r/t) and in a Metro area the size of
Connecticut (by the way I think all these superlatives are a bad thing)
regular unleaded at Quick Trip just went up in a week from $1.18 to $1.26 a
gallon.  Considering a more apt description of I-285 would be a chain of
behemoth sport utility vehicles rather than a circumferential highway--I'm
most happy to see the price go up.  Too many folks in this town (where gas
last summer was as low as 80 cents a gallon) have gotten too comfortable
with driving intimidating vehicles that get 9 MPG if that. This is the land
of both the stretch Hummer and stretch Lincoln Navigrator limousines.

Together with their $800 car payments and the increasing price of gasoline
it would be nice to see these things garaged and more people flooding the VW
dealer here asking for TDI Jettas, Golfs and New Beetles and demanding they
bring over the TDI Passat Wagon.  I'm not really a Marxist, but certain cars
bring out my red tendencies from youth :-)

Give me that soot over ground level ozone any day!
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Donald Baxter
onanov@mindspring.com  (home) 404 325 1991
donald.baxter@transcore.com (work) 770 246 6261
    www.mindspring.com/~onanov

"It's not the end of civilisation--it is, however, the end
of civility."
   Mrs. Cage