Transit ridership up across U.S. 7

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   Tasermons Partner Posted 10:32 am
   12 May 2008

   Up in Houston......nearly 10% for both the bus and the rail.

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   Delay And Deny Posted 11:21 am
   12 May 2008

   No More Gas Painshttp://machinist.salon.com/blog/2008/05/09/hydro_4000_gas ...
   The product is called Hydro 4000, a $1,200 device that sits under your hood and uses electrolysis to turn water into hydrogen and oxygen gas. The hydrogen and oxygen are then fed into your engine, and the mixture causes gasoline to burn more efficiently, Havanich says.
   "Instead of having anywhere from 5 to 15 percent of your fuel not getting used and going into your catalytic converter, you can burn all your fuel," he told me.
   I learned about the Hydro 4000 from a local news report on WPTV Channel 5 in West Palm Beach. Jamie Holmes, the reporter there, was skeptical of Havanich's claims, so he tried the Hydro 4000 on the channel's Dodge Durango news van.

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   davedenali Posted 9:56 pm
   12 May 2008

   less than meets the eyeAs Paul Krugman noted, a big percentage increase in a tiny number still leaves you with a tiny number.  The vast majority of US commuters still get to work by driving a car in which they are the only passenger.

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   Wolverine Posted 5:23 am
   13 May 2008

   A Good StartThis shows what could be accomplished with a high gasoline tax that would be used to build public transit.  While, as Dave notes, this is merely a large increase in a very small percentage of people, the percentage of drivers leaving private motor vehicles for public transit would increase by a huge amount if gasoline were taxed at a reasonable level, say an additional $4/gallon.

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   usandthem Posted 12:25 pm
   13 May 2008

   Ahh,mass transitI have been pushing the mass transit button for years and I do hope that it catches on,to the exclusion of private automobiles.The problem is the tens of thousands of little towns like where I live(15,000)and the town across the river is about the same size.We have no mass transit,so to speak.We have two or three "cab" companies that are mom and pop kinda things,no buses except for the old folks storage houses and no trains of course.We do have a shot load of cars and trucks though.Multiply our town by the tens of thousands of others and I believe that we sure aren't helping the environment.Oh and don't forget the thousands of lawn mowers that we have belching out pollutants.We seem to be like so many other places,in love with our cars.Gotta find an alternative that small towns can use.

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   Wolverine Posted 1:16 pm
   13 May 2008

   Alternatives For Small TownsSmall towns should be easily bikeable.  But there's also no reason that public transit wouldn't work there, so long as people actually use it and give up their cars.

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   Tasermons Partner Posted 1:25 pm
   13 May 2008

   Street cars......Used to be a time, right after the turn of the century in the 1910s and even 20s, when almost every sizable town, even those with just a few thousand, would have streetcars that went up down all the major streets.

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