Just what do you mean by “positive thing”?
Again this was Liberal talk radio, saying this. Their reasons - it would force us to walk making America healthier. News shopping centers would open in walking distance of neighborhoods, creating jobs, and of course the whole save the planet thing. That is why hardly any of these liberal callers thought high gas prices was a bad things.
Go back a few years though and these same bozos where saying Bush's Oil buddies were getting rich