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To: Cogito who wrote (61505)	4/24/2008 5:50:03 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543295

When I'm driving down a highway and see a lot of litter by the side of the road, I don't consider that license to throw my trash out the window. My small effort doesn't clean up the highway, but at least I am not adding to the problem. I agree with that, but that analogy doesn't fit the point I was making. Er, trying to make. My quip was in response to a comment about the large and increasing use of coal in China. We're talking humongous orders of magnitude here. When faced with that news, running out buy a Prius in response is risible. Not throwing a candy wrapper from the car given the masses of litter is not the same as running out and buying a car given the masses of pollution. Not driving when you can walk would be the equivalent of not tossing the candy wrapper.