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To: NorseWood
"What am I to do with my motocycle when it snows or rains (as it does even in California . . occasionally), and I am wearing a business suit, and have a briefcase full of papers, or have a client to drive around town?"

Spare me your excuses, pillager of the earth. Wear a poncho and strap the briefcase onto the back of the cycle. Rent a car on the days when you need to drive around clients. As for snow and rain, who cares? Sure, a four-wheeled vehicle would be marginally safer for you, but it wouled be substantially more dangerous to everyone else on the road. If the accident rates for four-wheeled vehicles factored in the fatalities they cause, then it would be seen that motorcycles are vastly safer for society.

Nope, the bottom line is that anyone who can get by with a sedan could get by with a motorcycle just as well. I myself, of course, am not such a person—my lifestyle requires both an SUV and a minivan. But I operate on a higher moral plane where I can make such decisions dispassionately. Everyone else scuttling around below me in those rice-burning econoboxes had better have a good excuse for needing four seats and a roof, or else they ought to be driving motorcycles.

Is that enough, or do I actually have to put in the </sarcasm> tag?

51 posted on 08/12/2002 9:15:07 AM PDT by Fabozz
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To: Fabozz
Very nicely done. You sound a lot like the people pushing light rail.

Do agree that we need a rail system to make traffic lighter?

"Yeah, that's a grea idea".

Would you use it? "No" Why not? "I would have to leave earlier. It isn't close enough to my building. I have to drop off the kids at school. I have to run errands during lunch or on my way home. It's faster to drive." Or any other multitude of reasons, that other people should get off the road, but not them.

58 posted on 08/12/2002 9:25:31 AM PDT by Betty Jane
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