An interesting article from today's newspaper: http://www.fresnobee.com/2010/10/21/2127168/motorists-will-pay-for-dirty-air.html Seems people are being punished because the technology forced upon them is bad. Why are the consumers charged a penalty; shouldn't it be the producers of the product: the gas companies, the automobile manufactures and the tire companies? And; since the people of the San Joaquin Valley have been stripped of a transit alternative, is bus fuel less polluting than the fuel of an automobile?
Ninety years of land-use kayos has created LA as an excellent model of what unsustainable looks like. Western society has embraced itself as an automobile centric culture, this unsustainable base creates addiction. Environmental, social and economic decline is the product of a unsustainable land-use foundation.
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