[Varn]

Compulsive consumption, imagined "theory", presupposed bias, give me a break, I bet I got my doctorate before some of you were just a twinkle. I spend my working day doing Medical science and math. Farming, motorcycling, bicycling and conservationism (I believe that everyone should provide for themselves) are merely hobbies.

When I was 18 years old I drove a 1500 pound 1100 cc car. It got 30-35 mpg cost was 600 dollars, used. I only had to move myself. My life today involves moving 2 people 7 dogs and cats, farm equipment and practically everything that one can imagine. This week we didn't bring our big trailer which in hind sight we should have.

Most of my driving neighbors drive fairly high vehicles, I can only assume that most who were killed in Missouri were driving compact cars.

Personally I don't want to be a statistic. During the day I can not drive 10 miles without seeing a deer. During the night our eyes don't see nearly as well yet I see them about as often. I see cars and trucks 4x as often but I know that they are being controlled by a thinking human. Deer do not behave like people do. Today we had a guy come out with a dozer. Our dogs were laying around paying some attention to him. Yet one of them became quite unaware until the blade touched him. For the life of me I do not know how the dog forgot that the dozer was there. It had a 150 hp diesel engine. I am glad for him that he went the direction that he did The dozer was doing 1 mph. The dogs were taken into the shop at that point. Deer are cousins to sheep and if there is a dumber mammal than a sheep, I don't know.

If any of you want to test my "theory" come out and drive around after dark on the same roads I travel. I dare you to. You might hit a deer, you might not.

Our gas is about $2.45 a gallon. My 360 mile commute once a week or so doesnt make it that prohibitive. I would like to save some money and for that reason I post on this web site.