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- From: Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
- Newsgroups: sci.energy,talk.environment
- Subject: Not Necessarily All or Nothing (was: True Costs . . .)
- Followup-To: talk.environment
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 10:51:27 GMT
- Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
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- Message-ID: <Jym.25Jan1993.0251@naughty-peahen>
- References: <1j1lk0INNhfr@mojo.eng.umd.edu> <1993Jan13.202957.1308@inel.gov>
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- In article <1993Jan13.202957.1308@inel.gov>, dpe@inel.gov (Don Palmrose)
- writes:
- > Maybe that is good and well where you live. However, where I
- > live, there is about three feet of snow on the ground (more on
- > the way) . . .
-
- =o= Every single day of the year? Could not a bike be employed
- on the days when there aren't three feet of snow on the ground?
- I don't remember anyone suggesting an all-or-nothing deal with
- bikes. (But I will point out that that's essentially how I
- live -- and have managed to live in snowy New England states.)
-
- > Plus, at times only a big 4x4 will get you where you want to
- > go and in an emergency then that big 4x4 gas guzzler people
- > like you deride is literally a life-saver.
-
- =o= True as that might be, I still don't see why one has to
- hop in the 4x4 gas guzzler for a trip to the local convenience
- store. I certainly see more of them at the local Kwik-E-Mart
- than in life-threatening situations.
- <_Jym_>
-