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Could rising gas prices kill the suburbs?
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| 8/15/06
| marylin lewis
Posted on 08/15/2006 9:32:24 AM PDT by LouAvul
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Now, that could seriously impact some real estate markets.
I knew commuters in California who would spend one to two hours, one way, going to work. They could make more where they worked but buy affordable homes elsewhere.
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posted on
08/15/2006 9:32:26 AM PDT
by
LouAvul
To: LouAvul
If prices stay high and unstable, it will eventually effect the burbs. First though, the prices will affect what we drive, how we commute, what time of day we commute, etc.
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posted on
08/15/2006 9:34:36 AM PDT
by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
To: LouAvul
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posted on
08/15/2006 9:35:20 AM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: LouAvul
What an amazing conclusion!
The most productive citizens live in the suburbs. They will move their work there.
The socialist cities will be annihilated.
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posted on
08/15/2006 9:36:57 AM PDT
by
BillM
To: LouAvul
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posted on
08/15/2006 9:37:51 AM PDT
by
Dilbert56
To: LouAvul
The price of gasoline won't matter at all. Trips might be thought out a little more but gasoline is still cheap.
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posted on
08/15/2006 9:38:40 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: LouAvul
There's even talk of crude hitting $100 per barrel -- or 10 times what it sold for in the summer of 2005.Oil was only $10.00 a barrel in 2005? Who Knew.
To: LouAvul
to live in central cities and create a push for more public transportation. well families are NOT going to move into the jungle urban homes unless they are protected by gun toting security forces like homeowner in the philipines
To: george76
Bull. World population is not increasing; rather it is stagnating and will decline after several decades.
It has zero to do with why energy prices are high.
To: P-40
If prices stay high and unstable, it will eventually effect the burbs. First though, the prices will affect what we drive, how we commute, what time of day we commute, etc.
I tend to agree with your assessment.
In larger part, the central cities are such hellholes of liberalism, that many people would pay a lot more to stay out of them. Especially those with kids.
I live in the Rat stronghold of Cleveland. The schools have pretty much sucked for 40 years now compared to the suburbs. If I had kids, I'd pay just about any expense to keep them out of the local indoctrination centers.
To: RightWhale
Gas is down 13cents a gallon here to 2.99. Hardly a disaster....
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posted on
08/15/2006 9:40:15 AM PDT
by
Kozak
(Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
To: BillM
The most productive citizens live in the suburbs. They will move their work there. I dont know about that...you move companys to the suburbs and people will just move again...hense the reason suburns were created in the first place
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Bull. World population is not increasing; rather it is stagnating and will decline after several decades.
What world do you live on?
Here on Earth the population will continue to increase for at least a few more decades before leveling off.
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posted on
08/15/2006 9:41:53 AM PDT
by
Kozak
(Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
To: BillM
That's what I did. Get a job in the suburb close to my house. I'd be willing to pay $20 a gallon for gas just to avoid living in a city.
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posted on
08/15/2006 9:43:07 AM PDT
by
mhx
To: Dilbert56
Telecommuting I'm in the process of setting this up for myself. I've determined that buying DSL will allow me to telecommute 1 day/week and save money, based on my gasoline costs.
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posted on
08/15/2006 9:43:12 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Current projections by the UN's Population Division, based on the 2004 revision of the World Population Prospects database [3], are as follows.
Year Population (billions)
2010 6.8
2020 7.6
2030 8.2
2040 8.7
2050 8.9
Other projections of population growth predict that the world's population will eventually crest, though it is uncertain exactly when or how. In some scenarios, the population will crest as early as the mid-21st century at under 10 billion, due to gradually decreasing birth rates.
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posted on
08/15/2006 9:43:45 AM PDT
by
Kozak
(Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
To: Kozak
9 billion does seem to be somewhat of a consensus for the topping off of the population.
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posted on
08/15/2006 9:43:57 AM PDT
by
oldleft
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
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posted on
08/15/2006 9:45:16 AM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: BillM
"What an amazing conclusion!"
Nah, just the fantasies of "sustainable urban planners". ;)The same ones they've had for the last 30 years or so. ;)
I'll *never* move back to town. There's plenty of other ways to cut down on both my gas consumption and my spending. :)
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posted on
08/15/2006 9:46:26 AM PDT
by
Mrs. Ranger
(lamenting the death of "common sense" - vote Irey)
To: LouAvul
I'm one of those commuters. I work in West LA and live in Santa Clarita. It has to do with more than affordable homes though; the politics in West LA are almost communist, while Santa Clarita is a conservative haven.
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posted on
08/15/2006 9:46:56 AM PDT
by
oldleft
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