Re: OT:: On the subject of smoking

In article <fcs7m2012e6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Joe Cilinceon" <joecil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Steve Wertz" <swertz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:05:27 -0400, Dee Dee wrote:

"Steve Wertz" <swertz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Meanwhile I have a bike and walk around town next to your cars
and SUV's spewing forth all sorts of noxious fumes, poisoning the
environment, driving up the cost of food, and depositing soot all
over the streets and buildings. Not to mention causing wars and
the death of several thousand US military and civilians.

-sw

Nobody ever mentions TRUCKS!; I can't get from here to there without
being
caught in a 'train' of trucks.

I started to write trucks but changed it to SUV's. We need a
certain amount of trucks to bring out food and other supplies to
market. There are relatively few people that need their SUV's
and cars to get to work or run all sorts of poorly planned
errands - 1 person to a car.

-sw

I have seen something new in the trucking industry lately. We have a pretty
busy train track behind our place. I see a lot of semi trailers now hooked
up to rail type wheels and being pulled like any other box car. We get one
by about every 30 minutes during a normal day.

Joe Cilinceon

It's not new.

Those are shipping containers that come over by freight ship.
They then get passed over to trains or trucks for overland transport.
They all eventually end up on semi flat beds to their final destination,
but using trains to get them as far as possible is good.

We need to re-open more train tracks.
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