Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Wednesday, July 02, 2008


Another news hack smiles:

But it's also true that Americans are finding options where there seemed to be none. They're ready to change — just waiting for their infrastructure to catch up. They are driving to commuter-rail lines only to find there are no parking spots left. They are running fewer errands and dumping their SUVs. Public-transit use is at a 50-year high. Gas purchases are down 2% to 3%. And all those changes bring secondary, hard-earned benefits.

We want to see how many of these benefits actually appear. Cheaper insurance? With St. Warren running the biz? And why do we suspect traffic will somehow manage to avoid the costs of high gas prices? Less obesity? How did Amanda figure that? And why do we detect more than a shade of smugness to prognosticating like this?

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