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   From: sharx35@hotmail.com   
      
   "John Fleming"  wrote in message   
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   > [Default] On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 11:51:12 -0800, while chained to a   
   > desk   
   > in the scriptorium Con??Con?  wrote:   
   >> $On 2/4/2014 11:39 AM, Alan Baker wrote:   
   >> $> If I owned 1000 vehicles, how would that negatively impact   
   >> the   
   >> $> environment, Karen? I can only drive one at a time?   
   >> $>   
   >> $> As it happens, I have three vehicles:   
   >> $>   
   >> $> my daily driver (a Miata that gets about 30mpg)   
   >> $>   
   >> $> a Dodge Ram pickup truck that I use very occasionally to   
   >> tow...   
   >> $>   
   >> $> ...my race car, a 1989 Van Diemen with a 1.6 litre engine.   
   >> $>   
   >> $> But I'm only ever driving one of them at any one time.   
   >> $>   
   >> $> :-)   
   >> $   
   >> $I'd say that you're filling up three vehicles instead of just   
   >> one.  Do   
   >> $you consider that more than if you had only one vehicle that   
   >> ran on   
   >> $something other than an oil derivative fuel?   
   >> $   
   >> $If you had a big home with a huge yard and lawn, and your   
   >> neighbour had   
   >> $a small home with a small lawn or no lawn, and you both watered   
   >> your   
   >> $lawns in summer - which of you would be using the greatest   
   >> amount of a   
   >> $natural resource?   
   >> $   
   >> $Your "three vehicles" are the big home, ya stupid person.   
   >   
   > Actually, he\s only driving one at at time, so the comparison   
   > with   
   > heating a big home is like comparing apples to oranges.   
   >   
   > With the big home, you have to heat the whole house--even if you   
   > are   
   > only using one room at a time.  With three vehicles, you are only   
   > operating one vehicle at a time.   
      
   Not exactly. We don't heat our whole house--closing doors and  heat   
   outlets in some rooms plus the entire basement.   
   Obviously there is still some heat leakage to the cold rooms,   
   though.   
      
      
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   > John Fleming   
   > Edmonton, Canada   
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   >   
   >     Old MacDonald had a farm E-I-E-I-O   
   >     And on that farm he had a genome E-I-E-I-O   
   >     With a SNP SNP here and a SNP SNP there,   
   >     Here a SNP, there a SNP, everywhere a SNP SNP   
   >     Old MacDonald had a farm E-I-E-I-O   
      
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