People don't like railroad tracks near them? We'll see how they feel when the percentage of U.S. citizens who can afford to drive a car goes way down, as it will.

The "Green" community, the enviro people, are preoccupied with running all the cars differently. Our techno-grandiosity has us gibbering about high-speed rail - which we don't have the capital for anymore - but nobody is interested in repairing the existing rail system, which would be far less costly and hugely beneficial for us. In short, we are acting cluelessly. And life is tragic. The clueless usually suffer.

I'm serenely convinced that we are heading into what will amount to a time out from technological progress as we know it.

I'm not against Kyoto. I just think it's a fantasy, especially considering China's energy predicament and their coal supplies.

The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.

The suburban cycle which began a hundred years ago is nearly over. We are in for a period of contraction and economic hardship.

America does not want change, except from the cash register at Wal-Mart.