Re: OT: Drill Now for oil
- From: JosephKK <quiettechblue@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:21:13 -0700
On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:05:19 -0700, Jim Thompson
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On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:41:32 -0700 (PDT), JeffM <jeffm_@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
donald wrote:Jim Thompson wrote:
How about we:
[...]
get public transportation working,
Bwahahahahahaha! [...]Typical Republican:
Most public transportation is a political boondoggle.
Won't look beyond the top layer on public mechanisms. 8-|
(Think: more person-miles/gallon==cleaner air
and--for the folks who insist on a 2-ton chunk of stuff
to transport a single person--less road congestion.)
That's a great _theory_, provided you somehow create significant
rider-ship. You clearly have no idea of the population density
distribution in Arizona... we're now above 100 miles west-to-east in
the Phoenix metro area... mostly single-family housing.
Maybe it's just a stopped-clock-right-twice-a-day thing
but last year somebody at Orange County Transit
decided to NOT get rid of the buses they normally retire.
Now, they have a reserve that they put to work at peak hours
--and the ridership numbers are definitely up.
It's a dense area that I feel is unfit to live in.
One model _does_not_fit_all_!
Agreed.
You can't even crank up your car for $3--much less ride all day.
I can now drive cheaper than I can fly. AND be comfortable.
They even had a give-us-a-try-for-free program.
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:EmG-POaqmjgJ:www.octa.net/press_061208.aspx+June.16.to.20+free-one-day-*-passes&strip=1
Japanese-manufactured. 8-(get the car companies to fulfill the promise of economical cars,Notice how the Toyota Prius and like-type vehicle sales are booming
In Tennessee ;-)
Yup. Why can't 'murcan manufacturers make this change? Unions?
Regulations? What??
truck and SUV plants are closing?..and people are parking their ridiculous vehicles.
get the air breathable again,You know not of what you speak.
Air quality is _dramatically_ better than it was in the '50's.
[. . .]
In some big cities and some other places, not everywhere.
We need to drill so we're not dependent on enemiesWasn't it you that was just talking about living in the '50s?
<checking> Yup, that was you.
As usual you have your leftist weenie head up your ass. '50's
education WAS better, air quality was NOT.
Cars WERE more powerful ;-)
Were they? I remember car average power was about 100 BHP in the
1960's. It seems to be about 200 BHP now. But i know my memory to
be somewhat faulty. Could someone check it out?
.
How about investing in efficiency & renewables FIRST?
Edison had compact flourescent giveaways years back.
GE is developing more efficient incandescents.
Insulation subsidies would make more sense
than most of what passes for a US energy policy.
My present house is 30% larger than my last, but costs 1/2 to cool,
insulation IS generally better here than in other parts of the country
where thinking seems totally inadequate: I was amused seeing on TV
some crime situation back east... police car with hood up to avoid
over-heating. Wonder why you don't see that in Arizona?
With the amount of sunlight that impacts Arizona,
it should be illegal there NOT to heat your water with solar.
I do. And my pool. Though I do crank up a heat pump in the "dead of
winter" ;-)
I remember whe I liked in Florida decades ago
there was a guy in Coral Gables I'd see on the news
who had a rig that had been operating since 1938.
Confucius say "Man who live in Florida sweat without evaporation, and
smells terrible" ;-)
It was 118°F in my neighborhood today... didn't get sticky at all ;-)
...Jim Thompson
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