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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (25213)	9/10/2009 3:18:32 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 36921

Ridiculous: Ocado, which has signed up to the Guardian-backed 10:10 campaign to reduce carbon emissions by 10% by 2010, claims having shopping delivered to your door has a lower carbon footprint than walking to a British supermarket and buying everything there – because stores use energy. Delivery of groceries uses energy. While I am not familiar with any study I doubt if driving a thousand deliveries per day can save energy over a thousand people walking to a neighborhood store and carrying home their groceries and sundry items. I have this image of the driver delivering a package of tampons to our front door. At least it will be that bloody poor sap instead of me.