Paul Johnson wrote:
> Good luck. It's about 330 miles from the first gas station in Washington to
> the first gas station in California on I-5, the shortest way to make the
> trip.
330 miles, like that's a long distance. Maybe I'll go back and forth for
an entire week, just for you.
> It's 307 miles from the Washington line to the Oregon line on I-5.
> Our problem isn't with people who just pass through, it's the ones who forget
> to leave.
Yes, yes, but you need people for your "progressive", totalitarian
initiatives.
> Every time I go out of state into Washington, Idaho, Nevada or up to Alberta
> or BC, I have about equal odds of the station absolutely reeking of gasoline
> because of a nice, big spill on the concrete.
Or that could be because, you know, it's a gas station and fumes tend to
escape vehicles when they open up the tank. I mean it's like going to the
dump and wondering why it reeks of garbage.
>> Even LA, the "evil one" you were never more than an hour from countryside.
> Maybe if you live near the edge of the sprawl, sure. But it takes well more
> than an hour to get out of town from Orange County. The fastest I ever made
> it from SD to LA is two hours...at 3 in the morning on a Sunday.
No edges needed, that's pretty much anywhere. And news flash, Paul, San
Diego to Los Angeles is hardly urban the entire trip.
> I understand how much countryside that is. However, the prime countryside
> tends to be near cities, and tend to get stomped first. There's a finite
> amount of farmable land in the world, and cities tend to be near that for a
> reason.
Well then, how about you come out here where I am if you're so concerned
with farmable land. Not a whole lot of that out here. Oh, but you like your
nice little niche up there. It's ok for *you* to stop but not other people.
> The US is a federation of 50 individual states that really don't owe each
> other much of anything. California forgets this most often.
Doesn't matter. Because at the end the states contain people and
according to your sick and twisted logic *you* owe the individuals. But of
course, you forget that when it's most convenient for you.
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Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream?
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