Comments on: Today’s Headlines http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/30/todays-headlines-414/ Covering the New York City Streets Renaissance Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Angus Grieve-Smith http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/30/todays-headlines-414/comment-page-1/#comment-51182 Angus Grieve-Smith Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:11:33 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/30/todays-headlines-414/#comment-51182 via Metafilter: Eight reasons you'll rejoice when we hit $8-a-gallon gasoline: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/eight-reasons-youll-rejoice-we/story.aspx?guid=%7B82FCE1B0-1889-43B0-A465-E29BFEE95576%7D&dist=MostReadHome Also this Calvin and Hobbes cartoon: http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/ch/1993/ch930428.gif via Metafilter:

Eight reasons you’ll rejoice when we hit $8-a-gallon gasoline:
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/eight-reasons-youll-rejoice-we/story.aspx?guid=%7B82FCE1B0-1889-43B0-A465-E29BFEE95576%7D&dist=MostReadHome

Also this Calvin and Hobbes cartoon:
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/ch/1993/ch930428.gif

]]> By: Larry Littlefield http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/30/todays-headlines-414/comment-page-1/#comment-51110 Larry Littlefield Fri, 30 May 2008 14:35:10 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/30/todays-headlines-414/#comment-51110 Too many riders? Alleged shortage of bicycles. http://www.nysun.com/new-york/high-gas-prices-cause-bike-shortages-in-ny/78975/ Too many riders? Alleged shortage of bicycles.

http://www.nysun.com/new-york/high-gas-prices-cause-bike-shortages-in-ny/78975/

]]> By: Mark Walker http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/30/todays-headlines-414/comment-page-1/#comment-51109 Mark Walker Fri, 30 May 2008 14:24:56 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/30/todays-headlines-414/#comment-51109 From the NY Post story about $5 gas: "Only 17.6 percent of New York drivers complained that motorists are rude and aggressive." There's the ultimate in windshield-perspective journalism: Asking drivers about drivers. Pedestrians, of course, don't exist. From the NY Post story about $5 gas: “Only 17.6 percent of New York drivers complained that motorists are rude and aggressive.” There’s the ultimate in windshield-perspective journalism: Asking drivers about drivers. Pedestrians, of course, don’t exist.

]]> By: nobody http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/30/todays-headlines-414/comment-page-1/#comment-51105 nobody Fri, 30 May 2008 13:19:40 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/30/todays-headlines-414/#comment-51105 re: Sharpton and CM: I have a lot of respect for FreeWheels, but inviting Sharpton is a stupid move. re: Sharpton and CM: I have a lot of respect for FreeWheels, but inviting Sharpton is a stupid move.

]]> By: Larry Littlefield http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/30/todays-headlines-414/comment-page-1/#comment-51104 Larry Littlefield Fri, 30 May 2008 13:06:02 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/05/30/todays-headlines-414/#comment-51104 RE the gas tax holiday. This generation of leaders will not stop handing out goodies to the entitled until the transportation system faces the same future as the public housing system. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/nyregion/30housing.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin Not only will we not get what we are not willing to pay for, in the end we will pay and not get it. Bankruptcy. Default on municipal bonds held by one set of rich entitled people. Default on pensions and retiree health care for another set of rich entitled people. They won't stop until the rest of us have nothing left to lose. RE the gas tax holiday. This generation of leaders will not stop handing out goodies to the entitled until the transportation system faces the same future as the public housing system.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/nyregion/30housing.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin

Not only will we not get what we are not willing to pay for, in the end we will pay and not get it.

Bankruptcy. Default on municipal bonds held by one set of rich entitled people. Default on pensions and retiree health care for another set of rich entitled people. They won’t stop until the rest of us have nothing left to lose.

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