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North Americans are cowards. It used to be great fun to watch our Toronto cousins trying to drive - or, even better, sit as front seat passengers - on one and a half lane rural Irish roads.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Mon Jun 18th, 2012 at 09:44:54 AM EST
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Scotland is like that too. One great feature of these roads for Americans is that after a while you forget that you're supposed to be driving on the other side of this one lane....
by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Mon Jun 18th, 2012 at 10:09:20 AM EST
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that's why I liked the back seat in Grenadian private minivan buses going between Grenville and St. George.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Mon Jun 18th, 2012 at 03:01:28 PM EST
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You should try China. I made a trip in the mountains just north of Beijing two months ago. The roads are actually top-notch with lots of safety railings and so on. The problem is the drivers who are all-out insane... and the fact that they have actively sabotaged(!!!) all the safety belts so you can't put them on!

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
by Starvid on Mon Jun 18th, 2012 at 05:06:41 PM EST
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