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- From: petel@augustana.ab.ca
- Newsgroups: sci.energy
- Subject: Re: Are bikes really less polluting?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.114423.9790@augustana.ab.ca>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 11:44:23 MST
- Organization: Augustana University College, Camrose, Alberta
- Lines: 23
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- 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 may seem somewhat irrelavent, but there are two main reasons why I
- bring this up:
- The first is that in a country of this size, it is necessary to have some
- forms of inter-city transport, and while bikes do the trick, they turn a
- trip from Edmonton to Vancouver into a couple of weeks long trip, rather
- than two days.
- The second reason is that in this part of the country, the option of riding
- all through the year is limited to those of a particularly hearty stature.
- Having lived on Vancouver Island for two years, and having spent most of my
- time there riding my bike the seven miles to work, I am familiar with the
- possibilities of pleasurable, non-poluting modes of transport. Living now
- in the near North, I can safely say that this is an option, but one which
- poses some dangers: hypothermia, frost-bite, exposure, etc.
- Some people can withstand these tempuratures, but some can not.
- 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.
-