Thomas Lund:
>This little article appeared in "world" section of todays Ottawa Citizen.
>The wonders of the "free marketplace" in action. However, GDP is up and
>the automakers are having a record year. I will leave it to Jay Hanson,
>should he choose to answer this little bit of insanity, to bring this into
>perspective.
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>U.S. drivers are burning record amounts of gasoline this year. They are
>encouraged by a strong economy to go out on the road, and increasingly,
>they are turning to vehicles with more zip and less fuel efficiency.
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>End of quote
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This reminds me of a conversation I once had with a senior official of an
outfitting firm that brought well-healed hunters to the Canadian Rockies to
shoot increasingly scarce game. I asked him if it didn't bother him that
what he was doing was driving game populations down to oblivion. His
response: If we don't clean them out, someone else will. We might as well
make some money on them.
It's not quite the same point, but close.
Ed Weick
