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...everyone who moves here will still own a car, because this is a suburb, right? When we lived in Shanghai, my wife walked out of our apartment to a street market a few blocks away to buy vegetables every day. Here, you drive to the store. In China, the car, almost as much as the new apartment or house, is a badge of honor among the newly minted middle class. If the neighbors I've met are any indication, many people will still drive into town rather than commute on a crowded train. This, despite the fact that it costs...
...thought your Math 21 pset was hard, wait until you get your hands on what’s in my pants right now. 7.) I know we’ve never met, but I’d like to back you up onto my hard drive sometime 8.) I know I’m not that hot, but I bet my GPA is higher than yours. 9.) Are you an econ major? Because I’d just love to get my invisible hand in your Slutsky matrix. 10.) If you think Positive Psych is easy, wait...
...Mayor - currently campaigning to win a third stint in May 1 elections - announced that from October onward, drivers of high-polluting vehicles will have to pay a punitive ?25 or $50-a-day toll for city-center journeys. The chief focus of Livingstone's wrath are the four-wheel drive vehicles he calls "Chelsea tractors": shiny gas-guzzlers driven by affluent moms who drop off their little darlings at private schools and then cruise into town for their Botox appointments. The toll will be levied on any vehicle emitting more than 225g of carbon dioxide per kilometer (about...
...Sian Berry, who is challenging Livingstone in the mayoral race on behalf of the Green Party but backing him on this initiative, thinks she spots a solution to my problem. "If you hardly drive your car, then a ?25 congestion charge might be worth living with rather than getting rid of the car," she says. "People are very good at unconsciously cutting down on their driving, when there's a fuel crisis for example...
...every time I take the car out of the garage on a weekday. That's almost the cost of a minicab journey to Heathrow. Or a pizza dinner. I'll have to swap the Mercedes for a new car and my carbon footprint will get bigger. "If you hardly drive it, that's a really good point," she says. "There are people like you, but hopefully not too many. People with very old, well-looked-after Mercedes are probably not the target of this, but we have to put the measures in somewhere...