“This is in response to the rant about the bad neighbor.  It truly seems that there is an epidemic of bad neighbor conduct going around.  Things that once used to make the news as headlines, now, unfortunately, are often considered normal.  I am not sure what is wrong with these terrorist neighbors from hell, but something is.  My own personal beef is with the neighbors with the nonstop barking dogs, or who let their dogs out to bark at their neighbors when they see them coming or going, or visitors doing same.  These people do not own the street or have the right to control other people like this, as they seem to think.”

“Back when our country was in the industrial revolution, the people made a conscious effort to scrape the already extensive operating public transportation systems for inexpensive personal vehicles based on the need for oil products. Obviously that was a mistake! The recent surge in oil prices is a wakeup call. Already the airline industry is making moves that will prevent the masses from affording the price of a ticket to fly. It wouldn’t be unreasonable to think that in the not too distant future, whether we’re ready or not, if dramatic improvements aren’t made in our public transportation system many will find themselves unable to get to market or anywhere else.

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