[Leica] Forget Prius, buy a bike

[shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka)]

theoretically viable, but in practice a friend of mine was forced
to sit in very close proximity in an office with a fellow given to
such biking ambitions.  i don't know if body odor is strictly a kind 
of pollution, but my friend was clearly a victim of an externality.

-rei

On Nov16 17:33, Philip Forrest wrote:
> Exactly!
> Get a bike, get healthy, save money, be MORE mobile and have access to 
> more 
> places than with an automobile.  
> I started commuting to work last may.  When school started in late august, 
> I 
> began riding there as well.  I've only paid a total of $8 towards public 
> transportation since May.  Had I not been riding, I'd have spent $6 or $8 
> per-day (the expense depends upon which campus I'm attending on a 
> particular 
> day.)  $28 per-week.  School has been in session for 13 weeks now, so I've 
> saved $364.  I also lost 28lbs in weight.  I get around town, to work, to 
> class, and home an average of 60% faster than taking public transportation 
> and easily half as much faster than privately owned vehicles.  I think the 
> drivers of this city (Philadelphia) are very jealous of the cyclists 
> getting 
> around at normal speed while they are stuck in gridlock.  Perhaps that's 
> why 
> so many drivers are so incredibly rude and very offensive towards cyclists.
> Riding a bike will burn just a tad more fuel than you were previously 
> going to 
> eat, but it won't be burning the remnants of dead dinosaurs or peat bogs.  
> The world is so much better seen on a bike than in a car.  It affords many 
> more photo opportunities as well.  
> 
> 
> PhilFo

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Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
Ridgewood, New Jersey