2c/l petrol and $25 average increase residential exchange in exchange for a long-overdue mass transit system? Not a bad deal. Especially if the alternative is to wait another 10 years of gridlock and frustration and then pay an order of magnitude more. ;-) Spend as much as you can now so you can join in the bonanza once the US starts mega-inflating its currency and we all follow suit. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
