>That's not fair Doug. Chuck is not advocating a return to the stone
>age; he was taking part in a debate about the relative costs of
>public transit and he was reminding everyone that there are huge
>costs associated with some of our modern amenitites, which, when
>taken into account, make spending on public transportation
>relatively cheaper than private transport.
When you invoke an unmixed catalog of horrors lurking behind the flip of a light switch, without a word of appreciations of the virtues of artificial illumination, you gotta wonder if you're heading toward Kirkpatrick Sale-land, where it's all been downhill since the invention of agriculture.
Doug