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The Threat To The Car

News Type: Event — Thu Jun 19, 2008 5:29 PM EDT
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The Threat To The Car
by Terrence Jeffrey

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.

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.

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... READ MORE

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Samantha Gluck

Cute.

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Reply#1 - Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:06 PM EDT
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lauhal

Yeah, but it does hit home, doesn't it?!

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#1.1 - Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:48 PM EDT
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Samantha Gluck

It does...AND its cute to boot.

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#1.2 - Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:35 PM EDT
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evaunit6

It's funny, yet not a laughing matter...a paradox, if you will!!!

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Reply#2 - Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:24 PM EDT
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Samantha Gluck

Yes, if it weren't so tragic, we'd be laughing.

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#2.1 - Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:34 PM EDT
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Sandie Seward

At Last! Someone who has been thinking along the same lines as myself. I have been more and more convinced that the high cost of fuel is simply a curb on our car usage. For decades, various governments have wanted us to use our private transport less, but we just kept on using it.

Now, for what is, basically the first time ever, we are being forced to re-evaluate our lifestyles and our car usage.

A recent article asked "Is our love affair with the car finally over?"

No. Our "love affair" with our cars is still very much alive, so much so, that I would bet that even when oil prices are beyond the reach of many motorists, we will still hold on to our cars, give them a clean of a weekend, even if we have to push them into and out of the garage!

Just as some people today run and cherish cars from a bygone era, i.e. "Classic Cars", so we will cherish our cars in the future, even when we can no longer afford to run them.

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Reply#3 - Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:30 PM EDT
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bluecollarbytes

Public transportation is fine where it works, primarily in densely packed cities. You don't really want me and my cousins being forced out of the back roads, hills, mountain passes, hamlets and other defensive positions, and moving in next door do you? All because we need to live by a bus line?

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Reply#4 - Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:48 PM EDT
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