http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/transportation/372829_streets31.html?source=rss
I am fucking speechless.
OK, not entirely. Let's just say that there are a lot of ways to articulate my disdain for this sort of thing, and the very same disdain is being expressed all over the blogosphere every day, so it is a little disingenuous of me to add my voice to the din. Still, it is a valid, credible din, railing against the Nanny State, and hopefully it will have an effect some day. Get rid of cars to stop pollution? For 6 hours? On one road? What?!? That's like trying to take the violence out of hockey by taking one NHL game every 5 years and turning it into...baseball. It would be irrelevant to the issue, and futile in the utmost.
At some point the article says: "Cars are Seattle's biggest single source of climate pollution..."
Climate pollution? Is that even possible? I'm no eco-enviro-scientist, and I ain't got much schoolin', but I'm pretty sure that's just a ridiculous thing to say.
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I think it shows how really out of touch our leaders are and how unintelligent, too. For some odd reason the business owners who need patrons to support their business think having no cars and a less hurried environment will do well for their business. Well when the less hurried patrons no longer patronize their businesses, I wonder what tune they will sing then? And I thought the biggest contributor to climate pollution or pollution in general for Seattle are those little plastic (recyclable?) grocery bags. This makes just about as much sense as John Edwards getting paid $50,000 dollars to speak about poverty while building a 6,000 square foot six million dollar house in Chapel Hill, NC. Or political leaders talking about reducing the amount of energy the masses use while they keep the lights on in their palatial estates all night long. Dumb.
Don't get me started on the grocery bags...
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