Ever driven through Texas? Nebraska? Idaho?
There is no one out there.
That's because this what a liberal thinks of the US...
Posted on 09/21/2007 2:16:14 PM PDT by republicpictures
Don't want to fork out for a Prius? Can't see tanking up with ethanol? Can't afford solar panels for your roof?
Not to worry, you can still do something to fight global warming: Live closer to work.
That's one conclusion of a major national report published Thursday by the nonprofit Urban Land Institute.
...A hotly contested bill sponsored by Sen. Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) would require regional planning groups to set targets for reducing greenhouse gases, and could stop millions of dollars in federal, state and local transportation funds from being spent on roads that could encourage sprawl.
...two-thirds of the structures in the U.S. in 2050 will have been built between now and then. Construction will include 89 million new or replaced homes, and 190 billion square feet of new offices, stores and institutions. If only 60% of that development is clustered in mixed-use, compact areas, it could slash greenhouse gas emissions from transportation by 7%, the report said.
...The California Chamber of Commerce and the California Building Industry Assn. declined to comment on the report, but James Burling, litigation director for the Pacific Legal Foundation, a conservative group that has battled environmentalists over land-use issues, dismissed "the latest anti-sprawl crusade based on global warming" as "no different from every other anti-sprawl campaign from Roman times to the present."
"So long as people ardently desire to live and raise children in detached homes with a bit of lawn, there is virtually nothing that government bureaucrats can do that will thwart that," he said.
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That’s why Howard County, MD (where I live) has so many homes built in the last 20 years and so few before that.
The idea was to get them to leave, voluntarily. A few times in my career, I was offered absurd relocations, when business got bad and layoffs were looming. It was just a loud hint.
I live in Massachusetts, which as everyone knows, is a Socialist pesthole...but still I took a layoff before accepting a transfer to California. Worked in there for a year, saw enough... My hideous state, multiplied by a large number. Cost of living, the "Homeless", etc.etc.
Howard County still has some charm.
I lived in PG county and that is a major mess.
And live in a commune, right, got it.
I moved so that I'm just a mile from my work, I'm saving the planet, but you guys are destroying it even faster.
The one draw back, being so close to work, is that traffic is a bear (I'm not much one for walking) but I've found a back way, admittedly it adds 60 miles each way, but I feel AWESOME about my self the whole way.
Owl_Eagle
If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
Gee I never thought of that!
I'll talk to my boss about moving the plant right away.
Hey! Maybe we should move the farms to the middle of the city too.
I’ll second that one!
Oh, I envy that. But I work in a laboratory and my company and co-workers would frown on bringing the analyzers home with me.
Just about the time they convince everyone to “move in close” to their work, L.A., New York or Houston will disappear off the face of the earth under a terrorist’s mushroom cloud. Rural America will never be the same when the rats jump that ship now fondly called the “Great American City.”
Wow. What a breakthrough.
I was thinking that too. What if the wife works 60 miles away from the husband? And jobs change, too. Should we all move with every job change, and change the children’s schools each time?
Also, speaking of schools, school districts need to be considered. Suburbs have fewer jobs but better schools.
I agree, living closer to work makes sense, unless of course, you work in a very crummy area and don’t want to raise your kids there.
I think a lot of decisions on where to live center around schools and safe neighborhoods (if there is such a thing as safe neighborhoods ).
“Hmmmmm no thanks.”
For about 90% of jobs in the USA, I’d surely agree.
My suggestion was only for occupations like biochemistry/molecular biology
where you might start four or five processes of different time-length...
and you MUST be there at the end of the time for each process.
Doing chemistry/biochemistry/molecular biology does have this aspect
in common with being a short-order cook!
But you are absolutely right about most jobs...having a dorm near
the worksite would just be an employers’ exuse to exploit the work force.
It's a trade off I'm willing to accept even though it's costing me dearly on fuel consumption.
Guess I'll have to find another way to offset the increased cost.
Cheers!
Exactly. The cities were vibrant and fun and contained real communities.
Then war on poverty, welfare and corrupt city governments and insane schools and now illegal immigrants drove everybody out and the inner cities are like Darfur.
Who would move back in to the inner cities and send their kids to school there?
Yes, that does make sense.
[But you are absolutely right about most jobs...having a dorm near the worksite would just be an employers’ exuse to exploit the work force.]
When I hear people describing these conditions my thought is, “man, thats not a home, it’s a hive”.
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