This is from today's NYT:
When prices topped $4 a gallon over the summer, Jim Booth of Cleveland could not afford gas for his 1992 Dodge Caravan to visit his 2-year-old son, who lived just eight miles away.
The idea of a bike ride never occurred to this man? When my little beast was 2 (or even now) I would quite happily have trotted the 8 miles there and back. And, in the future it would have made a nice story - quite as nice as I walked 8 miles to school and back and may even have allowed papa to put a little guilt trip on the grown kid.
So, I apologise in advance in the event the man turns out to be handicapped but, the statement above shows why the US will be so hard to bring into the comity of energy poor nations.
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