On 10/24/08, Kris Tilford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I've inherited an old 1970's Ford LTD with a big 500 ci engine that
> gets about 6 mpg. It too is "perfectly good usable", but it wastes
> money in gas, pollutes the air, and carries enough momentum to kill
> people driving more fuel efficient vehicles if there were an accident.
> I can't justify ever using this vehicle again, and I don't feel
> comfortable selling it, so it's headed to the recycler even though
> it's "perfectly good".
It can run unleaded gas so thats a bit less polluting.
Probably can take more damage than today's cars so yo'd be safer.
Your free, disposed of, CRTs are not an example
> of a efficient use of recycling. Rather it shows the laziness of the
> average citizen, placing a CRT in a dumpster rather than recycling it.
True, but it is still usable so they didn't get their money out of it.
I got it cost free so it saved me money.
> And you, to cheap to do yourself a favor, there are new LCDs for less
> than $100, buy one, IT PAYS FOR ITSELF!
Some of us don't have money to toss around as our budgets are tight.
Society as a whole is better
> served with your CRTs in the landfill than with them in use.
In a landfill? Not recycled?
>They're digging coal in Wyoming and shipping it on a smokey diesel train to
> Missouri and burning it releasing tons of CO2 into the atmosphere so
> that you can waste energy with an antiquated CRT monitor that possibly
> harms your health in other ways. There was a reason the monitor was in
> the trash, and it has nothing to do with whether or not it's
> "perfectly good usable". It's always about money. They're saving money
> by throwing the CRT away. You're wasting money by using it.
Missouri does get coal for power plants, true. However, we are also
putting in windfarms and using solar so not all power is from coal
(some is natural gas as well).
Wasting money? It cost me nothing and it powers down when I am not at
the computer.
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