To: Constant Reader who wrote (172591 ) 7/6/2006 9:36:58 AM From: Constant Reader Read Replies (2) | Respond to I was planning to post about something completely different, but I ran across such a stellar example of deeply profound intellectual thought so firmly grounded in reality and what must be a mother lode of scientific research supporting it that I had to cry "Uncle!" when I read it. It was so startling that it rendered me speechless. I was moved. So moved, in fact, that my fingers are trembling as I write this. (This must be one of "evangelical moments" I've heard so much about.) Anyway, here's the finest demonstration of scientifically researched and documented, logical, clear-thinking underpinning what some have erroneously called "alarmist solutions" to global warming:"instead of having small local shops" central depots! A centralized depot is worse than a whole bunch of smaller depots because ... I'll let others finish that statement, because it is just so obvious that it doesn't bear repeating. One large and significantly more energy efficient per mile traveled truck delivering a wide variety of goods to a single point is a bad thing. What we need are a few dozen small, ineffecient vans and trucks picking up partial loads at dozens of randomly located small warehouses and the delivering those loads to a dozen different small locations.
