"Av" > wrote in message
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> On 2006-06-08, Doug Warner > wrote:
>> Nah, we need prices like that in the USA to reduce the numbers of huge
>> fatmobiles hauling single persons around at 9 MPG.
>
> Raisign the price won't stop as many people driving as you think.
> What will reduce consumption is increase efficiency, alternative fuels
> and hybrid technology. There are other things too but you get my drift
>

Yeah. And bring back the railways, get those bloody lorries off the roads!