Jed Rothwell wrote:
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
Entertaining idea, but a typical sticker doesn't weigh an ounce. More like a gram, which would cut that million pounds down to about 30,000 pounds.
Only a gram? 10 sheets of 8 x 11.5" paper weigh 46 grams. A 3 page letter in an envelope weighs an ounce. I have not weighed a sticker, but aren't they magnetic?
No, the ones you see on cars are more like decals -- they're just a film of plastic, or possibly paper, with sticky stuff on one side. Probably more than a gram, it's true :-) but not a whole lot more, I'd guess.
The Fish Wars had the potential to be more expensive, I suppose, since the bumper-fish (both Darwin and IXOYE fish) appear to be rather thick plastic plaques. I kept meaning to get one of each, and let them fight it out on the back of our car, but I waited too long and now the back of the car's completely covered with political bumper stickers, so both fish lost out.
I'll bet the biggest "energy flag cost" is the cost of all those flags on cars flapping in the wind. Fortunately, they have mostly frayed and you do not see them often anymore.
Yeah -- I wish I could say the same thing for the gas-station flags, and the flags in restaurants, and the flag in the barber shop, and the flags at the copy shop, and.... I suppose they'd be useful if one occasionally forgot what country one was in, and needed to be reminded, but that's not a problem I find I have.
- Jed
