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To: average joe who wrote (85819)	8/20/2000 12:24:10 AM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 108807

However, if you feel really strongly about it quit driving. This is the story you're presenting. Nick and I are on a boat. Nick spits in all the food and wonders why I balk. "If you don't like my spit, don't eat the food.", says Nick. You are playing Nick. Sorry but Nick was wrong. He put me in a position where I have little choice than to complain. I can't pull his spit off the food, so I work around HIS agenda. I have to eat, probably less, food. So what am I doing? I telecommute. Five days a week. 4 are only half day. I drive in 4 days, but only one way is in traffic so I'm at full speed-limit efficiency one way and I time it so I'm off peak the other times. Improved my current fuel efficiency 20% on exactly the same mileage with the same car. One day, all day, I don't use my car. Another 20%. By just changing behavior. Right now that behavior really isn't encouraged. Look at how you responed - it was almost like a really have another choice that I'm just not using. Utter and complete knee jerk. I am logical. That sentence isn't. We've subsidized a road system that makes it convenient, economical and now, essential to commute. Okay, I drive a smaller more fuel efficient car. Sold my Camaro, bought a Taurus. 50% reduction in fuel usage there. Seats 5, I have 5 people. I'll do what ever it takes to reduce my impact. That's it. Just reduce it. I am a vegetarian too. AIDS is an infection. A parasite, basically. I'm okay with its demise and that of the rat. My kids were worried about wasting water. I said, you want to save water, recycle aluminum. One can will save 100 gallons of primary water equivalent. I have more recyclables than trash. I won't ask you what you do, because I figure unless you're a completely boorish ignoramus, you do as well as you can given your situation. So what can we do? We can stop encouraging exponential growth of energy usage through wrong-headed energy policy. Right now, I'm sitting in the half light, with computers that shut themselves off when the power isn't needed. All my lights are on sensors and timers. They go on when they're needed. Off when not. My reductions aren't subsidized or encouraged. Surprise, surprise. Hello??? I'm burning less fuel... that's not what someone else wants (gee, who could he mean?)... they want me to burn MORE oil.

To: average joe who wrote (85819)	8/20/2000 1:45:03 AM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 108807

You should go to their, Ballard's, website before you use them as an example of non-petroleum research: The fundamental component of these end-user products is the Ballard® fuel cell that combines hydrogen (which can be obtained from methanol, natural gas or petroleum) and oxygen (from air) without combustion to generate electricity. And where does the carbon go? Into Co2. Direct solar hydrogen production might be a non-petroleum source of energy. But they didn't mention that because really, no research is being funded for that. Even though we know that anaerobic microbes produce it.