Duveyoung wrote:
> Sorry, Angela,
>
> I was kidding only. I love the worship of cows as a concept, but
> letting them and monkeys run rampent in a big city is not the way to
> enter the future as a first world nation. So I kid them. There has
> to be a better solution that is also okay with the dogma.
>
> The fact that these small cars are going to be the bane of America
> with the smog we will get from across the Pacific is a big karmic
> payback to us since we have belched out every noxious chemical
> possible into air, land and water. It will be years before China and
> India have done to the world what American pollution has done.
Whoa! You haven't been to India have you? Bombay was smogville when I
was there in 1996. Made Los Angeles air look clear by comparison.
There was a great Imax feature I saw years ago that showed the pollution
over India taken from the space shuttle. Those little scooters were
belching smoke like crazy and what a problem if you wanted to do
something to stop that. The owners probably couldn't afford the smog
reduction stuff. I think they may have instituted a government program
to help them out since then though.
>
>
> How dare anyone in America begin to complain about this smog....or
> continue to drive our gas hogs here while doing so.
>
> Electric cars (yeah, electric plants pollute too, but economies of
> scale are inviting) are around the corner, but BigOil is fighting
> against this with patents for battery technologies being kept from the
> public weal. This is evil.
>
> Again, sorry to any Hindus out there. I love Hindus -- except for
> that tradition of killing a woman for just about any
> offense....including that her dowry ran out.
>
There are a lot of Indian Hindus that would love to get rid of the free
roaming animals in the cities. They get killed by vehicles anyway.
Leave them to the countryside. Many would also like to get rid of the
superstitious practice of sending dead bodies down the Ganges too.
