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   From: sharx35@hotmail.com   
      
   "Alan Baker"  wrote in message   
   news:lcsd86$ggd$1@news.datemas.de...   
   > On 2014-02-05 04:01:58 +0000, Sharxster said:   
   >   
   >> "John Fleming"  wrote in message   
   >> news:2k23f9ltfqvortc1fde2euo8ecs0p051n1@4ax.com...   
   >>> [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.   
   >   
   > You might not heat your whole house... ...but I would bet that   
   > almost everyone else in North America does.   
   >   
   > Who wants to walk into a room and wait for it to heat up?   
   >   
      
   The unheated/uncooled rooms are ones that are hardly ever used   
   except for storage, e.g. spare bedrooms, basement, attached garage.   
      
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