My thanks to Michael for the links to the articles on ripping up asphalt roads.
I suppose it would be too much to expect an apology from Amicus?

579, michaelinadelaide - wow, 100 miles, converted in the outback nowhere of of some northeastern states, of roads with less than 200 cars likely to travel on them.

100 miles in 55,560 MILLION miles of US roads, is oh jeez, it is so small you need exponents to express it.

Something like 0.00000002%

Being catastropharians of course, that's the end of US civilization and hence, it's all over! (sarcasm)

Why are you guys so inclined to hysteric exaggeration?

Sarnian your comments earlier alluded to the US being is such a disastrous state that they were ripping out roads .. when I said the Americans were building.

Now it turns out some almost unused back roads beyond nowhere were actually sealed! The local councils, they are pulling some of them out .. why one county recently converted 3 miles of road .. aaaargh! end of the world! (We wouldn't even seal roads like that, they are so advanced, so civilised they do .. now it seems, due to them almost never being used, they have decided to convert a few, good for them, looking after ratepayers money)

This is like saying Australia is converting all roads to bike tracks because they have a whacko eco mayor in Sydney who has converted a couple of little used roads to bike paths .. but to get to the level of exaggeration you use, would take way more than that.

Michael, thanks, you underline my case, this is a small rural thing in out of the way places, the rest of the US is improving their roads so that people and transport can move around. The only place it is reported is the lefty USA Today, in April of 2010 (nothing recent?) and an eco whacko site .. yep big news guys!

Hey we should have a peak asphalt tax for you guys, I know it would feel good wouldn't it .. all that guilt, the world ending and all .. a nice big new tax will make it all better .. sheesh!

Sarnian not 579 .. sorry 579

Sarnian sorry
Posted by Amicus, Saturday, 12 November 2011 9:11:41 AM

OK I accept your apology.

I recently covered 74Km on a newly ripped up, ex bitumen, gravel road, into Tenterfield.

But hay, that only the hicks up there. Too far from the great metropolis of Sydney to matter.

Good article. Most people have little concept of what it takes for cities to exist.

There is a federally registered political party tackling this: STABLE POPULATION PARTY

www.PopulationParty.com