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In The United States, Throughout All Twenty-four Hours Of Every Day Of The Year - Year After Year - We Have An Average Of Two Million Automobiles Standing In Front Of Red Lights With Their Engines Going, The Energy For Which Amounts To That Generated By The Full Of Efforts Of 200 Million Horses Being Completley Wasted As They Jump Up And Down Going Nowhere.

-R. Buckminster Fuller

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R. Buckminster Fuller

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In The United States, Throughout All Twenty-four Hours Of Every Day Of The Year - Year After Year - We Have An Average Of Two Million Automobiles Standing In Front Of Red Lights With Their Engines Going, The Energy For Which Amounts To That Generated By The Full Of Efforts Of 200 Million Horses Being Completley Wasted As They Jump Up And Down Going Nowhere.

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