I think everyone should drive SUV's. Why? It would be great if ran out of oil. It would force the bureaucrats and businesses to start REALLY investing in clean energy sources like SOLAR. If converted at 100% efficiency, the energy falling on 1 square mile of Arizona desert in a 24-hour period, could power the USA for a year. At least that's a figure that was given around 10-15 years ago.
This renewable, non-renewable resource thing is a bunch of bunk to me. If it's not renewable and we're using it in vast quantities, maybe we shouldn't be using that way, at all. If it is renewable and we use it faster than it can be renewed, then so what if it's renewable. Forests come to mind. The fact that wood products come from a renewable resource is almost meaningless. It takes what, 50 -100 years or more to grow a harvestable tree, and only any hour or less to cut one down. Tom C. ----- Original Message ----- From: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 3:59 PM Subject: OT: SUV's - was: Illegal Street Photography? > Pu-leeze! > > This is so far off topic, I shouldn't even be responding, but I can't help > myself. > > SUV's are in no way kind to the environment! They use *easily* twice as much > gas as a small compact in everyday driving. They weigh twice as much - meaning > that they deplete non-renewable resources twice as quickly, and they produce > twice as much pollution in the manufacturing process. > > Their weight means that they take longer to stop, and means that they don't > handle as well - important factors in accident avoidance. And, they take up a > lot more road space - a consideration for poor non-polluting cyclists like me, > as they zoom by within inches of me on city streets. > > Their weight, size, higher driving position and all-wheel-drive give drivers a > false sense of security, so they often tend to be driven faster than road > conditions dictate - especially in low-traction situations like rain, snow and > ice. Drivers tend to forget that even though they have 4-wheel-drive, they have > no more braking power than any other vehicle on the road - often less, due to > their heft. > > Oh yeah, and they roll over more easily, due to their high centre of gravity. > > Sure, SUV's have their place, but it ain't in the city. > > My two cents worth... > > regards, > frank > > Kent Gittings wrote: > > > Children get killed by even the smallest cars hitting them. And today's big > > SUVs put out less emissions that the average car did only about 5 years ago. > > And since the emissions standards are more restrictive in the US almost > > anybody in the US is being kinder to the environment than somebody in > > another part of the world. So the guy driving the late model Excursion or > > Suburban is putting out less than the guy driving a 95 Honda Civic. It's the > > cultures that hang onto a car and drive it for many many years that are > > polluting the environment the most. > > Kent Gittings > > > > > > -- > "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist > fears it is true." -J. Robert > Oppenheimer > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
