Comments on: Gas Price Increases = Less Auto Deaths

Researchers Say A 10 Percent Jump In Fuel Prices Leads To A 2.3 Percent Decline In Car-Related Fatalities

[marcpcbs]

marcpcbs wrote
The oil sellers and the pot growers will use any convoluted reasoning to keep the profits pouring into their pockets.

Posted by zoe2006 wrote
No. do not put the oil seller (Exxon Mobil) and the pot growers (a multi-assortment of individual, fully diverse), (never) in any sort of collaboration.

marcpcbs wrote
convoluted reasoning is convoluted reasoning.
A pot grower or a oil seller by any other name,

[loneeagle57]

Gas prices increases=fewer auto deaths. No sh** less people on the roads cause we can''t afford it. This isn''t news this is common sense

[rational_1]

rational_1 asks, "are they omitting the teaching of writing skills in journalism school these days?"

Probably so, but you can''''t cite a headline as proof. The headline writers have been trying to squeeze their messages into tiny blurbs for years, so they can use a large typeface for the headline. "less" is one letter shorter than "fewer". To a headline writer, the weak grammer is a small sacrifice to save a letter.
Posted by IDNNSG at 08:22 PM : Jul 11, 2008

Perhaps so, but that''s even more pathetic than ignorance. In the past some great writers like Hemingway got their starts working for newspapers. If the current crop of newspaper writers are willing to prostitute the language for the cost of a single letter that''s pretty sad. I''m hoping the writer doesn''t know the difference between ''fewer'' and ''less''.

[marcpcbs]

"Gas Price Increases = Less Auto Deaths"
This is like saying,

"As marijuana fills more schools there are less deaths from students on the way to graduation ceremonies."

The oil sellers and the pot growers will use any convoluted reasoning to keep the profits pouring into their pockets.

[cartermlc11]

That''s right boys and girls. Now be good and go to college then someday you too can have a cushy job where all you have to do is state the obvious to the masses and get paid lots of money. Then you can afford to pay for your gas and drive a safe vehicle.

[aeasus]

DUH!!!!!
Seriously,it took researchers to figuire this out?

[barocalto]

DRILL, DRILL, DRILL....

[cartermlc11]

Well isn''t it nice of these professors to sit behind there cushy university desks, on tenure no doubt and not having to worry about driving a bigger vehicle or being able to afford the fuel, and study how many deaths will be avoided because SOME people (translate SOME to mean POOR) can''t afford to drive. It''s a macro point of few if you ask me and they no doubt were wearing blinders when they did the study. The bigger picture is that the roads and travel will be an exclusive privilege of the rich, so the roads will be nice and safe for them out there in their hummers and SUVs. In the meantime, the rest of us will be religated to alternative forms of transportation. They fail to point out that it is the poor and disadvantaged who will be the ones dying in the little tin cans that they have to drive just to be able to afford the gas. See where this is going? Yep, your right, the rich will become richer and the poor poorer because we will be at a disadvantage. I''m telling you the greedy really want to run this world, and they want the rest of us to die sooner so we don''t ruin there little rain forest or pollute their air while we try to survive. Well excuuuusssse me!

[idnnsg]

rational_1 asks, "are they omitting the teaching of writing skills in journalism school these days?"

Probably so, but you can''t cite a headline as proof. The headline writers have been trying to squeeze their messages into tiny blurbs for years, so they can use a large typeface for the headline. "less" is one letter shorter than "fewer". To a headline writer, the weak grammer is a small sacrifice to save a letter.

[barbaram99]

a foot note to the story. Crime is up. They eteal gas from the pumps,framers,businesses.