"There are over 2 million cars standing in……" — R. Buckminster Fuller
"There are over 2 million cars standing in front of red lights with their engines going. Then we have over 2 million times approximately 100 horsepower being generated as they are idling there, so that we have something like 200 million horses jumping up and down and going nowhere. Now, we have to count that in our economy when we begin to get down to what is the efficiency of the economy."
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R. Buckminster Fuller
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220 Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller
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