http://www.grist.org/biking/2011-02-28-how-bicycling-will-save-the-...
I also view cars as investments that require sustained incoming cash flows yet give a consistent negative return because they lose value immediately upon leaving the dealers lot. Would any other investment by any financially reasonable person do this? Nope. Cars, financially make zero cents. Period.
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Anyway a car is not a "bad" thing inherently
Cars are the leading killer of children in our country. That doesn't seem bad to you?
The fatal flaw in Elly Blue's article is that she fails to recognize that all benefits of a society accrue to the landowners. Adam Smith wrote about this in the conclusion of book one of "The Wealth of Nations", and Henry George amplified and expanded on it in "Progress and Poverty" and other writings. For example if a neighborhood's compactness and proximity to transit offers its residents the ability to save $300 per month because they can walk, ride a bike, or take transit instead of driving, the rents in that neighborhood will simply be $300 a month higher. The landlords pocket the benefit. If one buys instead of rents, the future $300 per month savings (or premium that can be charged for rent) are figured into the selling price of the land.
-Bob Matter
Cars are inanimate objects. Besides, even if cars were sentient killers whatever figures you used to arrive at that conclusion are wildly inaccurate.
H3N3 said:
Cars are the leading killer of children in our country. That doesn't seem bad to you?
Sorry Mr. Perz, H3N3 is [mostly] correct. See http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/Unintentional_2007_BW-a.pdf. MV accidents are the leading cause of death for all child age groups except 1-4 year olds where drowning narrowly beat car accidents for the #1 spot by 30 deaths. The 2007 data seems to be the latest available.
-Bob Matter
Sorry Mr. Perz, H3N3 is [mostly] correct. See http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/Unintentional_2007_BW-a.pdf. MV accidents are the leading cause of death for all child age groups except 1-4 year olds where drowning narrowly beat car accidents for the #1 spot by 30 deaths. The 2007 data seems to be the latest available.
-Bob Matter
Cars are inanimate objects. Besides, even if cars were sentient killers whatever figures you used to arrive at that conclusion are wildly inaccurate.
H3N3 said:
Cars are the leading killer of children in our country. That doesn't seem bad to you?
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