Re: Oregonian Trashes My EVs

[Bob MacDowell <bobmacd@netcom.com>]

"Jason Hills" <jasonhi@ricochet.net> writes:

>But a change in our transportation system is NOT going to just happen on
>it's own.  It's going to happen via one of a few means:

>1.  Government mandates it (this is happening to some extent).  
>2.  Market forces make it happen.  
>3.  Some crazy individuals seem to push things...
>4.  Other categories that I've not thought of at this moment in time...

>Well, my point is that things rarely "just happen" in our world today.
>People make them happen. 

Hmm, I didn't mean that we need do nothing; what I meant, in essence,
is that the draft is blowing that way anyway, so we don't have to blow
our engine trying to go there.  

Yes, we do have to work to go that way; we just don't have to knock 
ourselves out trying.  The entire movement is NOT on our shoulders.  

I've been in movements where the entire thing IS on your shoulders, like
saving a railroad line which is being abandoned for use as a railway
museum, or physically preventing logging of an old-growth forest when
conventional means have failed.  You only get one shot.  It's very 
stressful.  This, thankfully, isn't like that.  We can relax and have 
fun, and we don't have to convince everyone. 
 
>  In case you haven't noticed, these types of people are a very
>rare treasure.  I, for one, want nothing to do with discouraging someone
>like this.  What about you?

I think you are fighting for a world where no one would ever say a bad 
thing to, of or about John, ever.  But in such a world, how is he ever 
to learn anything?  :-) 

-Bob