Re: Will gas be over $20 a gallon by Christmas?

In <wn4Re.3645$Wd7.2443@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dave C. wrote:
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><clemenr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Public transport can be run off electricity. Not just trains and trams,
>> but trollybuses too. I have lived in a city that used trollybuses and
>> do know how boring it is waiting while the driver tries to get the
>> pantograph reconnected to the power lines :-)
>
>But public transportation will NOT work. As been posted elsewhere, public
>transportation (where it exists) is only 15% efficient. That is, it is 85%
>subsidized by people who DO NOT USE IT. The last thing we need is to waste
>even more money on public transport. -Dave

It's not that bad everywhere. Last I heard farepayers paid about 2/3
the cost of Philadelphia's city transit division, despite drivers getting
something like $18 or so per hour and family health coverage 100% paid by
the employer after a few years. And there will be plenty more farepayers
when gas prices get high enough to get people to drive less.

- Don Klipstein (don@xxxxxxxxx)
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