🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 19 May 2008 03:06:49 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
<mike.terrell@earthlink.net> wrote:

>Eeyore wrote:
>> 
>> John Larkin wrote:
>> 
>> > "Paul E. Schoen" wrote:
>> > >"Michael A. Terrell" wrote
>> > >>
>> > >> Reality.  There isn't enough generating capacity to convert to electric
>> > >> cars.
>> > >
>> > >It may not exist at the moment, but the switch to electric (as well as
>> > >other more efficient vehicles) must be accompanied by an overall reduction
>> > >in our total per-capita energy consumption. Even if new electric power
>> > >plants would be built, using the same fossil fuels that now power
>> > >automobiles, they would be much more efficient and cleaner than millions of
>> > >individual cars and trucks being driven in stop-and-go traffic. But the
>> > >ultimate resolution to this problem will involve people changing their
>> > >lifestyles, using more public transportation, living closer to jobs (or
>> > >telecommuting), and generally becoming a more cooperative society living
>> > >and working closely with other people, rather than isolationism, needless
>> > >competition, and broken families.
>> >
>> > Non-competitive paradises like Cuba and North Korea? They certainly
>> > aren't suffering from glutted super-highways or packed shopping-center
>> > parking lots. And they have excellent energy conservation techniques:
>> > the power is only on a few hours a day.
>> 
>> You have to be NUTS to compare Cuba to N Korea.
>> 
>> Heck, I have some friends who just holidayed in Cuba and they loved it. Things
>> are changing there now with Fidel's fall from everyday control. Mind you they
>> seriously started changing many years back anyway,
>> 
>> Graham
>
>
>   Then tell us why we still see makeshift boats full of Cubans trying
>to make landfall in Florida?  Another group was intercepted a few weeks
>ago.  If what you say is true, they must despise having to live in
>paradise.

Worker's paradise:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba#Economy

John