tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11719208.post4945922418415744446..comments2023-11-05T04:36:14.223-08:00Comments on The Mess That Greenspan Made: Drivers are feeling the painTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16530974968126497397noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11719208.post-81780976939752507662008-05-13T14:38:00.000-07:002008-05-13T14:38:00.000-07:00I get a good laugh At the suburbanites with the lo...I get a good laugh At the suburbanites with the long commutes in SUVs with no choice but to drive. These same suburbanites fought against public transit for decades so they planted the seeds of the disaster they are harvesting. <BR/><BR/>In Chicago's suburbs public transit in minimal at best and downright non-existent as the norm, with a bus system run by a bunch of incompetents in a landmass poorly suited for transit in the first place. And the incompetents are the mayors of suburbs!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11719208.post-25401645783979317602008-05-09T10:05:00.000-07:002008-05-09T10:05:00.000-07:00Not really, your options become much more limited ...Not really, your options become much more limited seven-and-a-half months into an unwanted pregnancy - at that point none of them are pleasant. <BR/><BR/>Economic sensibility and political feasibility are two diametrically opposed forces that will somehow be resolved in the period ahead.Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16530974968126497397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11719208.post-53318733382396144722008-05-09T09:55:00.000-07:002008-05-09T09:55:00.000-07:00You are certainly correct that some proactive poli...You are certainly correct that some proactive policies earlier on might have mitigated this disaster, but can you think of any policy that could both make a serious difference in the economic situation in which we find ourselves and be politically feasible?Charles Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02975241234146573609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11719208.post-85188163214911848812008-05-09T09:54:00.000-07:002008-05-09T09:54:00.000-07:00Maybe I'm a bad person, but I don't feel much symp...Maybe I'm a bad person, but I don't feel much sympathy at all. I read about peak oil and greenhouse gases years ago; I slowly, over the course of several years, changed my lifestyle as a result. Now I live in an urban area (got housing when it was still somewhat cheap), don't own a car at all, and take transit everywhere. I've bought one tank of gas in the last year--on a rental truck when helping a friend move.<BR/><BR/>I guess my point is, I didn't have any secret insider knowledge or anything; all of this was easily available, as your blog has chronicled for years. Whether because of willful ignorance or just because <A HREF="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080505/lf_afp/usreligionpovertyenergyoil" REL="nofollow">they thought God would help those who <I>don't</I> help themselves</A>, others ignored it all. And I have a hard time feeling sympathy there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com