The dilemma is clear: BIKES OR WWIII!?
donquijote1954
basic transportation, ie the bike. Their elites, though, carefully
groomed by the First World, drive SUVs...
So we can emphasize there that they won't have to work as hard as in
the First World, or that THE BICYCLE IS THE VEHICLE OF FREEDOM."
On May 23, 1:43 pm, DennisTheBald <DennisTheB...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From a global perspective the best numbers I can come up with are a
> good twenty years old:
> 400,000,000 automobiles (roughly half in the USofA)
> 1,200,000,000 bicycles
>
> Even if you incorrectly assume that all the motoring people have not
> also a bike (which seems very unlikely to someone that owns several of
> both) There is still about 3.5.billion people that ain't got no wheels
> what so ever. No wonder peoples are starving, they ain't got no means
> with which to haul their ass to the office at all. Well I guess they
> ain't got to office to which to have their ass hauled to anyway - but
> there is still significant hauling that could be accomplished by a
> bloke with a bike that isn't happening due to lack of wheels.
All of this makes so much sense. But I guess the Harvard and Oxford
educated Third World leaders don't know about it. Somehow they think
SUVs helps more globalization than biking. Afterall, like you
correctly say, China is moving away from bikes and getting into the
SUV fever...
>
> IF they had bikes in E.Africa they wouldn't be 'walking to Johhny' and
> dieing on the way, they'd be pedaling there and some of 'em might
> actually make there - So I guess the inhabitants of Johannesburg may
> have a vested interest in keeping bikes out of those impoverished
> places to their north. I can't really see the motivation for the rest
> of the world. It seems the best interest of the global economy is
> served by building more bikes and fewer cars - just the opposite of
> the trend in China... We must nuke China for the good of the planet
> and the planet's inhabitants.
China is a big player in the game, though not necessarily bad... See,
they just follow America, and their hunger for oil is driving prices
up, and making bikes more desirable in the West. And, when things get
real bad with oil, they may become America's enemy in WWIII, and then
the two models that promote the Law of the Jungle will annihalate each
other. Of course, there's going to be a nuclear fallout all over the
world, but nothing's perfect. ;)
>
> Or maybe we could just mail our old Huffys and what not to Haiti and
> Zimbabwe, uh would you settle for JAMAICA and MOLDOVA instead?
> This outfit: Pedals for Progress:http://www.p4p.org/index.html,
> might be just the ticket for ya.
> They're not the only game in town, well I guess it matters what town
> you're in. From the city with broad shoulders:http://workingbikes.org.
> Hey you can google fer yourself can't you?
>
> Just be careful that your old cycle doesn't end up in Latin America
> where in might become a mechanism to promote illegal emigration,
> dang... I sound like them fat cats in Johannesburg don't I?
It sounds funny, but the dilemma is BIKES OR WWIII!
But I'm optimistic today... I just went for a ride on my bike along
the beach, and everything beautiful out there. Life's a beach! ;)
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Environment, and make you Sexy."
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You can bet your bippy that the cost of gasoline is never going down.
And you have not seen the norm yet.
ComandanteBanana
wrote:
> > > "The revolution starts when you ride a bike. You think of it as a
> > > kinder, gentler vehicle that will help keep Peace as well as save the
> > > Environment, and make you Sexy."
>
> > >http://webspawner.com/users/bananarevolution
>
> You can bet your bippy that the cost of gasoline is never going down.
>
> - Show quoted text -
And I don't think that's a bad thing. Actually it would encourage
alternative transportation, including bikes.
But unless we get someone really smart leaders, this is a more likely
scenario...
Originally Posted by wahoonc
"Actually in some ways what he is posting makes some sense...When Cuba
was hit with the loss of oil when the Soviet Union collapsed, they
imported a large number of bicycles from China to keep people moving,
they became healthier due to increased exercise and still had a form
of transport, they WERE headed down the same road as many other
countries with the automobile. In Vietnam the US was constantly having
problems stopping the supply line from the north, millions of pounds
of amunition and supplies was being hauled down the Ho Chi Minh
trail...by bicycle! And the US with all of it sophisticated equipment
and weaponry was almost powerless to stop it."
Aaron
I was watching a fictional documentary about the day oil runs out.
Well, America doesn't have an oil policy! Zero, zilch, nada...
America would have to invade Venezuela, making China do some move in
the Middle East, so they can keep going in their voracious journey
toward destruction.
It would be so easy to practice some prevention, starting with the
magic word: save! Our president has to tell Americans to save gas,
electricity, bottles, etc.
But the way we work reminds me of these words written 100 years ago...
"In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money
is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole
criterion of power." -Upton Sinclair, book 'The Jungle'