[Corey]

I have to agree with Patrick regarding our Capitalist system. But in detail how do we get those in power positions to listen short of shooting them in the head? Hell its hard to get the average citizen to even do the right thing.

Here is an example not realated dirrectly. I am a bike/ pedestrian We have a state law that says when a pedestrian or bike They have TOTAL and AUTOMATIC rightaway. Meaning a car can not enter the crosswalk while the pedestrian or bike is in the crosswalk regardles to which lane the pedestrian is in.

I live in Rochester MN USA We were rated the best place to live in America back in the mid-late 90's

There is a 4 lane highway near a major grocerie store which has a light intersection with pedestrian cross walks and pedestrian lights.

Every single time a pedestrian or a bike goes through that intersection alone is playing chicken with the cars just to get across the freaking road. The pedestrians and bikes push the cross walk button that changes the pedestrian light to walk and almost every single car ignores the law and races through the intersection regardles of the pedestrians and bikes in the intersecion crosswalk.

Why do they do it? No fear of consequences............ To the driver they will win every encounter with a bike or pedestrian thus they get cocky as a result.

When I am on a bike I have to look them right in the eye and put my hand up to tell them to stop for my right away and they ignore the fact that I am even there. They only slow enough that they don't mark their cars from hitting my bike. I even have drivers HONKING at me when they KNOW I have the right away by LAW.

If we can't get people to do the right thing at the intersection that only costs them a couple of seconds of drive time then how do we expect them to do the right thing with regards to population, resourse use, and environment? Without putting a gun to their head and telling them the consiquences if you break the law is a bullet in the brain pan?

A 5$ a gal price for gas is a good start for a doable consiquece that people will actually respond too.
It will be extreemly difficult to get corperations to go with it, in that that is money taken away from their profit. There is only so much money to go around........