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Group: uk.transport · Group Profile
Author: FodFod Date: Aug 28, 2008 23:48
On 29 Aug, 07:45, Doug riseup.net> wrote:> On 28 Aug, 09:54, Fod googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> On Aug 28, 7:40 am, Doug riseup.net> wrote:>
>>> I am sorry you appear to be suffering from the credit crunch and high
>>> fuel costs but surely that is a very good reason to modify your
>>> lifestyle, particularly the car dependency aspect.
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>> the next day Doug wondered why tesco only had empty shelves and no
>> lentils from far off places....
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>> Whats going on he cried out, where is the food.
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>> Seems the truckers have all quit he was told. And without trucks...
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>> Gulp said Doug... suddenly wishing people had gone on ignoring him
>> rather than listen to his simplistic and foolish views.
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> There is no requirement for truckers to also be motorists
You seem to have a different definition of the word motorists from the
rest of the world.
Trucks do have engines you know...
and I
> suspect that many are not since they spend so much time in their cabs,
> or at most they are very infrequent motorists.
Someone once claimed they could show how a trucker could avoid having
to drive to work ( which most of them do).
Sadly that someone failed to put up and had to instead shut up...
> Just because Vince has made himself utterly car dependent doesn't
> meant that others have too nor does it mean that I am dependent on
> motorists for my food. Long before the car was ever dreamed of food
> was transported.
Oh wait. He's no longer shutting up. Does that mean we're going to
see that report?
Or are you hoping that we'll stop pointing out the major flaw in your
stated plan?
Rember that food transport by horse caused a lot of deaths...
Fod
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