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Poor Canadians

Yeah, I know, I'm irresponsible tooting all over for my own pleasure. I
burned a few gallons of diesel to get to Daun's, the Bug's sitting at 762
kms on the trip odo and still has 1/4 tank of Wilmington, Ohio diesel to
burn. And compared to what Adam's building (52 gph) Daun's Cessna is also
pretty economical at 10gph. Wonder how much that C-5 burns? I carpool to
work, and have been driving a 50 mpg vehicle since 1987. But I could do
better, and just hunker down here in the bush. Peak oil is a frequent topic
at the lunch table.
Anyway, while I struggle to get my cars to pass the ETest, the local coal
fired power plant has had testing of emissions cancelled by our last
Conservative provincial government. And our local asthma rates continue to
soar. I could get all depressed and think that a good pandemic is the
earth's only hope, but I'm not volunteering to get off the planet just yet.
Hopefully the thousands of trees I've started are merrily chewing through
some of the CO2 I've produced. :)
Cathy

On 8:00 pm 10/16/06 julie@menloparkrandd.com wrote:
> The "Poor Candians" was an attempt at sarcasm.
> Our (US) Govt and the companies behind it are on the same stupid
> path. Make as much money as you can, as fast as you can, regardless of
> the out come. The panic of the gas shortage in the 70's has been long
> forgotten. Any research stopped and shelved If we had kept going with
> the research, what would we be driving today? Make the move, be
> smarter than the american govt.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jean-Claude Desinor [mailto:desinor@sympatico.ca]
> > Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 07:12 PM
> > To: julie@menloparkrandd.com
> > Cc: 'Org, Scirocco'
> > Subject: Re: Poor Canadians
> >
> >  What do you mean, "poor Canadians"?
> >  I totally agree with the goal of reducing emissions. I am dismayed
> > by the attitude of our current moronic Canadian government. They
> > have all but decided to drop the goals of the Kyoto accords. They
> > say the goals are unrealistic and are asking for "scientific proof"
> > that there is global warming.
> >
> >  Jean-Claude
> >  84 8v, soon to get into hibernation
> >  96 Jetta GLS, will slug it through the smog and snow.
> >  All three of us waiting for the next elections
> >
> > julie@menloparkrandd.com a ?crit :
> >>  Cath, after your last post....
> >>  <http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/10/16/canada.cars.reut
> /index.html>
> >
> >
>
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