Fight the gas prices

[kandrathe]

West vs Mid-west. Possibly different, culturally. Because you CAN walk (Or take the bus) to places, people keep that possibility at the front of their minds.

On driving habbits, I am personally more ticked off at parents driving their kids to school, when it's a 10-15 minute walk in a good neighbourhood.

Be ticked at the media who sensationalize every child abduction (even when its the divorced dad), which has fed hysteria and paranoia. It gone from "Don't talk to strangers" to "Don't trust your child alone anywhere." A 5 minute drive to school for the paranoid is worth the peace of mind of knowing your child hasn't been abducted, raped, and tossed dead in a drainage ditch.

Parents by nature need to have vivid imaginations on the ways in which their children will get hurt. Children are born with zero common sense, so we have it on their behalf. I'm not saying I'm that paranoid, but as a father of two young children I can empathize with the position.