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writes:  in response to jr18:  Oil will never get cheaper - face
the facts -it's a finite resource. We will have to learn travel
and live differently. That's is why it is so important to really
begin the push for alternative energy sources ( despite the oil
lobby ) and alternative means of transportation. Naples would
have benefitted greatly from a system of trams, our state would
have benefitted greatly from high speed rail but it seems that
the powers that be are rather short sighted in their stubborn
adherence to the status quo and the Republican ideology which
seems to trump all. We would all be better off if politicians,
once elected, would act in the interests of their entire
constituencies rather than play pay back to those who funded
their elections.  You for sue haven't looked at a CAT or seen a
AMTRAK train have you? The buses are always empty and the train
is too. Both forms of transportation sound great but the reality
is they suck public