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...area with the most wastage of energy-motoring. The automobile burns 13% of all the oil consumed in the U.S. A special gasoline tax should be imposed on every gallon sold. This "conservation fee" would lead to car pooling and increased use of rails and other mass transit. The tax would cut down on the Sunday joyride, the midnight trip to the corner drugstore to get a pack of cigarettes, the national restlessness that led one observer to update Descartes's Cogito, ergo sum for America: "I move, therefore I'm alive." And the tax would be effective...
While these problems are real, they are not insurmountable. Detroit could make up for some lost business by building more buses and other forms of mass transit. If people stayed at home more, there would be a surge in many types of goods, from TV sets to parlor games; although people might avoid long-distance trips, they might well flock to closer resorts and motels. If people drove less, it would be logical to give gasoline a lower weighting in the CPI, thus reducing the impact of a gas tax on wage escalations...
...asked: "Where lives the 'Prince'?" Then, I stood silenced For I had no address, l am a man in transit, Twenty years in transit A man who was even deprived The right of having an address. -Rashid Hussein
...roaming Wild Card is but one of the grace notes of mass transit in Pittsburgh these days. Painted in pastels or ablaze with psychedelic designs, trolleys and buses have become sprightly delights. The bus groaning up steep Perry Highway bears the blue and white of Perry High School, and passengers rock in their seats to music provided by a cassette tape recorder. The transit authority also sells a $1 weekend pass, known as the Big Buck, that allows four people to ride wherever they like from 10 a.m. on Saturday to 4 a.m. on Monday...
...Reserves usually refer to grains - such as wheat, corn, sorghum, rice and soy beans - not needed to meet immediate demands. They can be in storage, in transit or in the lield ready to be harvested. Most food statistics use grain as the common measure because it is the major source of calories for man and provides the basic teed tor animals...