[cmccuist]

I commute 130 miles a day round trip. I drive a Honda CRX that gets 40-45 miles per gallon depending on the AC usage. It has 331,000 miles on it. When I dream about cities of the future I alway envision sleek, bullet-type trains that noiselessly glide into a terminal. Everyone folds up their newspaper or marks their place in whatever book they're reading and heads on out the door.

I would greatly prefer riding a train to work than risking my life here in south Texas dodging the Escalades, pickups and Hummers. Until someone comes up with mass transit that doesn't lose money, I don't see it happening. We just put in a joke of a rail system here in Houston. Cost billions and actually took up one lane of traffic!! WTF?!?

As far as marines dying for oil - we get about 20% of our oil from the middle east. The rest is from the Americas. Drilling in ANWAR would get us off the middle east nipple, but there are too many dumb animals preventing that plan. Also, some elk would have to graze elsewhere.

Craig