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why over 2000-pounds vehicle is used to transport 150-pounds person?

why over 2000-pounds vehicle is used to transport 150-pounds person, do we really need this speed and range of cars? world evolved into a place without distances and borders, and maybe even without time - these are domains of our reality, but isn't there a ominous paradox within, the faster we're living - the less time we have; the faster our "standard of live" grows - the more phony dependencies we create (e.g. in crucial sectors - as agriculture), the more we posses, the less happy we are; let’s start by walking slowly.

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  • Efrain Torres

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    Jul 21 2012: i think that the gasoline is not expensive enough yet.
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      Damian Przybyła

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      Jul 21 2012: I'm afraid that the only effect would be a tendency for paying even more money for gasoline, without considering if I can afford it.

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