🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1993Jan27.114423.9790@augustana.ab.ca>, petel@augustana.ab.ca writes:
> In response to the posting on "Are bikes really less polluting:"
> 
> I need to point something out in relation to the somewhat idealistic
> concept of having a world which doesn't seem to have any form of auto-
> mated transportation at all:
> WE LIVE IN CANADA, A SEMI-ARCTIC CLIMATE.

> This is just a little note to point out the dangers of going too far in our
> attempts to make the world more environmentally sound.  We need to take our
> climate and conditions into account as well.

  And on the flip side, here in Houston we have 95F temperatures and 95%
humidity for ~9 months.  This is quite a strain to many people.  I think
I'm driving one of the last cars around that lacks air conditioning!
  We live in an industrial society.  It is ridiculous for us to make
sacrifices like this.  I'm all for energy-efficient cars, more insulation
in homes, etc. but as soon as you try to change my lifestyle, I'm going
to plug my ears.

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 Keith Mancus    <mancus@cheers.jsc.nasa.gov>                           |
                 N5WVR                                                  |
 "Money is never *mere*.  It separates the feasible                     |
    from the infeasible."                                               |