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From: Matthew Russotto on 24 Jul 2010 21:26 In article <o4ol46ps6nfib5usp54aookiq8bash5hmf(a)4ax.com>, Dave Head <rally2xs(a)att.net> wrote: > >I'm just saying adapting would be impossible without moving very close >to where you have to normally travel to. People with 2 people working >would have to move close to where the highest paid person worked, and >the other person would have to quit their job and get one closer, no >matter how little it paid. Employers, realizing this, would lower the >pay they offered 'cuz they'd know they could get away with it. Do the math, Dave. Picking some reasonable numbers, $8/gallon additional, 12000 miles a year, 15 miles per gallon. Works out to $6400/year. Very few people would move for some small fraction of $6400 per year. Economically, it wouldn't make sense. -- The problem with socialism is there's always someone with less ability and more need.
From: Beam Me Up Scotty on 24 Jul 2010 22:08 On 7/24/2010 9:18 PM, Matthew Russotto wrote: > In article <epjl46dgioj9f243ldgefs8bc2uk2lkkh6(a)4ax.com>, > Dave Head <rally2xs(a)att.net> wrote: >> >> And why do you suppose the Euros are thin? > > Mostly because they eat less. I've eaten some of their "food", after that you would chew on a dog turd to get the bad taste of the European food out of your mouth.
From: Jim Yanik on 24 Jul 2010 22:53 Beam Me Up Scotty <Then-Destroy-Everything(a)Blackhole.NebulaX.com> wrote in news:4C4B9CB0.6070707(a)Blackhole.NebulaX.com: > On 7/24/2010 9:18 PM, Matthew Russotto wrote: >> In article <epjl46dgioj9f243ldgefs8bc2uk2lkkh6(a)4ax.com>, >> Dave Head <rally2xs(a)att.net> wrote: >>> >>> And why do you suppose the Euros are thin? >> >> Mostly because they eat less. > > > I've eaten some of their "food", after that you would chew on a dog > turd to get the bad taste of the European food out of your mouth. > if folks are so infatuated with Europe,they should move there. Instead of trying to make the US like Europe. (or Russia) Our Founders intended the US -NOT- be "like Europe". -- Jim Yanik jyanik at localnet dot com
From: Dave Head on 25 Jul 2010 01:19 On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 01:26:02 GMT, russotto(a)grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto) wrote: >In article <o4ol46ps6nfib5usp54aookiq8bash5hmf(a)4ax.com>, >Dave Head <rally2xs(a)att.net> wrote: >> >>I'm just saying adapting would be impossible without moving very close >>to where you have to normally travel to. People with 2 people working >>would have to move close to where the highest paid person worked, and >>the other person would have to quit their job and get one closer, no >>matter how little it paid. Employers, realizing this, would lower the >>pay they offered 'cuz they'd know they could get away with it. > >Do the math, Dave. Picking some reasonable numbers, $8/gallon >additional, 12000 miles a year, 15 miles per gallon. Works out to >$6400/year. Very few people would move for some small fraction of >$6400 per year. Economically, it wouldn't make sense. 12000 miles a year? Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Most people 'round here commute from Fredericksburg area to Washington DC, about 100 miles a day, total, or 25,000 miles a year just to go to work. $8 / gallon at 25 mpg is $8,000 just for 1 person to go to work. If there were 2 people, going to separate parts of DC, they'd have to double that to $16,000 miles a year, just to go to work. What they'd be doing is buying a condo, instead of a house, in DC, paying about 2X - 3X as much as they pay for a house and lot in Fredericksburg, and both taking the Metro to work, which is not cheap either, prolly around $8 - $10 a day for 1 person, and of course twice that for the 2 of 'em. Otherwise, most places I've lived, I've always communted about 35 miles round trip per day to and from work. That's just a third of the above numbers, so instead of $16,000 a year, I'd be paying maybe $5300. Thati's STILL a LOT of money just to go to work. If 2 people, it could be $10K. And of course with these analyses, we're only looking at WORK travel. if we want to do fun stuff, like going to the gym or movies, or just doing errands, its "more." $8/gallon gas would bankrupt the country, that's all. People don't have those kinds of resources. Dave Head
From: Dave Head on 25 Jul 2010 01:21
On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 01:18:41 GMT, russotto(a)grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto) wrote: >In article <epjl46dgioj9f243ldgefs8bc2uk2lkkh6(a)4ax.com>, >Dave Head <rally2xs(a)att.net> wrote: >> >>And why do you suppose the Euros are thin? > >Mostly because they eat less. It's cuz of all the physical activity they get doing things like walking to work, biking to work, etc. They do that 'cuz its too expensive to take their cars. That's what the envirowackos aim to make happen here. |