Bicycles Continued

I said “With stimulous money, let’s build Bike lanes.”

Some people were fearful of permitting motorized bikes in the bike lane.

I understand.  But what can we do?  You can’t have a lane for every size vehicle.

Nor do I know what the future holds for the big Macks.  They are gas-hogs, but they do deliver commodities we need to our local stores.  Probably eventually, they will be phased out.

Right now, I am promoting bicycles and bicycle lanes.  Nobody seems to think we can make a $100 motorized bike.  We can’t even make a $100 plain bike.  Why not?

In the future, virtually no one will have a car.  It will be public transportation, or stay at home.

I think Kunstler is right – we are going to become communities again, or we are going to die.  Sapello is not a community now – it is a suburb of Las Vegas.  This condition will exist as long as the trip to Las Vegas costs virtually nothing – only as long as LV (Walmart) cn get items from as far away as China for virtually nothing.  It will not work much longer.  Gas is creeping up to $3.00.  It will only go higher – it will not come down.

As Sapello becomes a community, we will depend more and more on Tito’s, the local store.  They already sell local eggs, etc.

Of prime importance, we must encourage local butchers.  We have always had local butchers, but the government, always looking out for our interests – tended to close them down.  Local butchers may not be the most sanitary operations around, but it’s them or nothing.  Let’s support all of our local people insofar as possible.

Locally, we have firewood.  Let’s encourage the use of wood stoves.  discourage the use of propane or electricity.

Brian is encouraging the use of biofuels, by which he means waste vegitable oil.  To which I say Amen.  Unfortunately, it means to many people ethanol made from grain – taking the food out of the mouths of the hungry to put in our gas tanks.

To the Christian, this means, “Me first!  To hell with the rest of you.”  I don’t buy that.

The botom line is, Let’s get some bicycles on the road – powered or otherwise – in their own lane – with the smallest engine that will work – perhaps a model airplane engine.

I love those big gas hogs as much as the next guy, but we have to be realistic.

So here is the goal – $100 motorized bicycles in their own lane.

Daddo