Dear Todd,<br> <br> Haha, you've misread my post. Apologies for my open-ended email, I should've elaborated. I advocate environmentally-friendly means of transport - whether it be a car, bicycle, etc. Cars running amock, even though they are green, is not my idea of utopia either. In fact, I support bicycles (like the Firefly Brigade - I'm pretty sure you know this) and walking as an alternative means of getting around. I also extensively use public transport. <br> <br> I must say, there are a few disagreeable things about the Toyota article, as you and others have pointed out, but that's not what I wanted to highlight. My utopia is a mobile world free of congestion and pollution (like in the article) and with equal opportunities to everyone. I could go on and on...but i won't ;-)<br> <br> Oh, please feel free to use your legs, if that's your utopia. Just don't use it to trample on mine.<br> <br> Have a nice day,<br> <br> Jojo <br><br><b><i>Todd Edelman
<edelman@greenidea.info></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Jojo!<br><br>I and many, many others do not want this utopia!<br><br>The Toyota propagandist says no petrol stations are needed, then mentions<br>the huge hydrogen infrastructure which is needed.<br><br>There is no mention at all of how cars can be "accident-proof". If this<br>means than pedestrians can walk in front of them and not get hit then I<br>call for all pedestrians and cyclists, etc to plan to walk across streets,<br>more or less at will, yes, Jojo, like we used to before Toy-ota and its<br>friends came along.<br><br>And such fuel economy between London and Istanbul! With the predicted<br>increase in cars, what will happen if many of these are being driven to<br>Turkey? No negative effects at all?<br><br>I could go on and on but I wont. Again, what the propagandist from Toyota<br>spews out is no utopia of
mine: I am realistic about the negative effects<br>of cars besides collisions and tailpipe emissions (social isolation,<br>enabling of obesity, huge about space needed which causes of farms and<br>forest, etc, tyres on tarmac noise, and so on....) I like using my legs,<br>and if Istanbul is too far to walk to I will take a train, which by the<br>way as been using regenerative braking for many years.<br><br>- T<br><br>> Jojo wrote: Dear all,<br>><br>> I don't think we have to be so negative to these things.<br>><br><br>------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Todd Edelman<br>International Coordinator<br>On the Train Towards the Future!<br><br>Green Idea Factory<br>Laubova 5<br>CZ-13000 Praha 3<br><br>++420 605 915 970<br><br>edelman@greenidea.info<br>http://www.worldcarfree.net/onthetrain<br><br>Green Idea Factory,<br>a member of World Carfree
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