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- From: russ@pmafire.inel.gov (Russ Brown)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.150411.16992@pmafire.inel.gov>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 15:04:11 GMT
- Organization: WINCO
- Subject: Re: Not Necessarily All or Nothing (was: True Costs . . .)
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- References: <1j1lk0INNhfr@mojo.eng.umd.edu> <1993Jan13.202957.1308@inel.gov> <Jym.25Jan1993.0251@naughty-peahen>
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- In article <Jym.25Jan1993.0251@naughty-peahen> Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu> writes:
- >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.
-
- Ah, but this is in California, the land of maximum automotive
- transportation, growth and development as a God, and the last bastion of
- externalizing energy costs.
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