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Month: June 2020

Wait, Wait, Peter, Don’t Run From Me

Mission: To promote driving less so all may live more.

This post offers some quotes from Peter Sagal’s The Incomplete Book of Running (2018), a confessional book, both humorous and insightful.

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Author Louis BurkhardtPosted on June 17, 2020June 13, 2024Categories bicycle, health, running, terrorismLeave a comment on Wait, Wait, Peter, Don’t Run From Me
Quotes & Notes
"American society is governed by car supremacy. This regime takes one of our lives every six minutes and costs us trillions of dollars a year. Yet, it is championed in some form by entire sectors of the economy and many consumers. The rest of us abide it, taking consolation in the enveloping comforts of the costly machines we find ourselves stuck in for hours each day—not because of our deeply felt preferences, but because an organized confederation of maximalists took away every other option generations before we were even born."—Gregory Shill, "Should Law Subsidize Driving?"

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