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- From: fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary)
- Subject: Re: Emissions Inspections, is new really be
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.052845.17755@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 05:28:45 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.192721.12772@ncar.ucar.edu> chris@chinook.atd.ucar.edu writes:
- >>>At some point the U.S. is going to need to make
- >>>a shift away from cheap gas.
-
- >>And, hopefully, to some other, equally cheap or cheaper energy source.
- >>I don't follow this attitude, that cheap energy and the implied
- >>high standard of living, is a bad thing.
-
- >I don't consider having to get in my car and driving 1 mile to the
- >store a "high standard".
-
- Then walk: It shouldn't take more than 20 minutes (in fact walking
- about a mile is how I usually shop.)
-
- However, I _like_ finding fresh food on the shelves (even in winter).
- That requires shipping from other parts of the country (possible
- because of cheap energy). I also like (if I'm not feeling well or
- the weather is especially bad) being able to go places without
- having to walk. I like being able to visit fiends who live more
- than 10 miles away. Also, if you look at the lables, I suspect
- most of what you own was made in another state. Would you like to
- paying several times as much for all those things? Heating
- my apartment in the winter and cooling it in the summer also
- involve cheap energy. Would you be willing to pay five times as
- high a gas & electric bill? Before you start complaning
- about cheap energy, please sit down and think about where
- everything you own comes from, how much energy went into
- it's production, and how willing you are to do without it.
-
- Frank Crary
- CU Boulder
-