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The bicycle can save the economy
On Feb 20, 5:35*pm, "His Highness the TibetanMonkey, the Beach Cruiser
Philosopher" wrote: I just went out on an adventure (it's always an adventure to ride a bike) and I saw of a number of businesses that went under: IHOP, Office Depot, Radio Shack, etc. I wonder if the money that people use to gas their car, and many other expenses that go with the car, are starving the economy. Even if they are unemployed they must hang on to their car in case they find another job, so all other business suffer and the city becomes a ghost town. I finished my adventure --if only to be out-- at Target, a store that always feels good. We found last night an amazing Huffy with rack and basket --beautiful to boot-- for a mere 120 bucks. Oh, if only people took advantage of such wisdom and went the simple way. There were perhaps 300 hundred cars at Target and a handful of bikes --5 at most. My "gassing up" takes a loaf of bread, some juicy drink --different every time-- and whatever else grabs my attention in the new food section at Target. "Cheap gas" if you will. When I go with my girlfriend though things are different and we usually sit down at a restaurant to enjoy a well earned meal. The problem is that we drive some 30 miles to get to the launching place and then we ride perhaps 10 or 15 miles. We have tried the same route I did today alone and we have come under attack. A little hurdle in the outing today: I was riding the sidewalk and this car was blocking the driveway --it happens all the time-- but I couldn't see anything through the tinted windows. He or she wouldn't move forward or backward. I got off the bike, becoming in effect a pedestrian and walking toward the car. The car finally budged and went into reverse. I rode the road that I call the "causeway to hell" with no particular incidents. I think it's this S-T-R-U-G-G-L-E that keeps people driving and money going to feed Big Oil, the people of Detroit and Japan, and who knows who. It ain't going to feed the neighborhood restaurant. But this is only my humble opinion. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://webspawner.com/users/BANANAREVOLUTION Well, you pretty much single-handedly screwed this newsgroup |
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