Author Topic: Will the USA green up its act?  (Read 5938 times)

Offline Rotax447

  • Copper Member
  • **
  • Posts: 112
Will the USA green up its act?
« Reply #270 on: December 20, 2005, 02:09:17 PM »
Everyone pollutes the planet but me and thee, and I am beginning to suspect thee.

Where have I heard that before?

The Montreal summit.  The worlds movers and shakers, in assemble, to lecture the world on energy abuse.  They fly across the globe, born on wings of steel.  Their 747s with neat, decorative, logos, consume more gas per flight, than I have used in a careers worth of daily commuting.  Food consumption?  Ha … what is the energy cost of my BigMac, versus their lobster, caviar, shrimp, and prim rib?  Their fine, flawless, china, costs many orders of magnitude more in energy, than my meager porcelain plates.  My auto gets 23 miles per gallon.  Their armored plated stretch limos get 2 -3 gallons per mile.

Am I missing something here?

Offline lazs2

  • Radioactive Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 24886
Will the USA green up its act?
« Reply #271 on: December 20, 2005, 02:17:00 PM »
no rotax.... I think you have a pretty good handle on it.

lazs

Offline mora

  • Gold Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2351
Will the USA green up its act?
« Reply #272 on: December 20, 2005, 02:35:31 PM »
An airliner gets 80 mpg per passenger. But don't let the facts get into your way.

Offline lazs2

  • Radioactive Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 24886
Will the USA green up its act?
« Reply #273 on: December 20, 2005, 02:39:31 PM »
maybe.... maybe not... not if it isn't full and...even if it is.... not if more than 90% are useless vacationers..

and.... for getting 80mpg it has to be the dirtiest 80 mpg ever recorded... lots of unburned fuel and pollution.

lazs

Offline Rotax447

  • Copper Member
  • **
  • Posts: 112
Will the USA green up its act?
« Reply #274 on: December 20, 2005, 02:47:08 PM »
When the production, maintenance, and operating cost of  that ‘airline’ is used for the transportation of one individual?

Let’s not play stupid here.  When you have you own 747 at your beck and call, don’t lecture me on the gas mileage of my Ford.
« Last Edit: December 20, 2005, 02:51:05 PM by Rotax447 »