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   "penny"  wrote in message   
   news:5q52j2lujhmv2f28lnbksliqnnclgq0pqp@4ax.com...   
   > On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 09:16:04 -0400, "Spokesman"  wrote:   
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   > >"penny"  wrote in message   
   > >news:cbgui2lo8javp2uhq79fgbmbi412pcah30@4ax.com...   
   > >> On 12 Oct 2006 00:53:55 -0700, "ABarlow"   
   > >>  wrote:   
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   > >> >In all fairness, electric cars don't produce zero emissions. They   
   > >> >produce no direct emissions;   
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   > >> Which is another way of saying the car itself produces  Zero   
   > >> emissions. Therefore, they can be put to use in polluted cities to   
   > >> reduce pollution.  The energy source industry could be  be out in the   
   > >> sticks away from cities or certainly away from the downtown.   It   
   > >> would  help a big city pollution problem.   
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   > >Typical Liberal!   
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   > >As long as the pollution is in someone elses back yard then it is OK   
   > >to pollute.   
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   > I think you meant to say  a typical RATIONAL liberal who cares about   
   > people. .   
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   > The density of population in a city is far greater than out in the   
   > sticks.  The emissions from hundreds of thousands of cars in cities   
   > the size of Toronto cause the deaths of well over 1,000 people each   
   > year and  thousands more are treated at hospital or are hospitalized   
   > for illnesses linked to pollutants.   
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   > More than 6,000 people are admitted to hospitals across the city each   
   > year with smog-related illnesses.  It's a huge burder on our health   
   > care system.   
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   > Out in the sticks the population density is far less and therefore the   
   > damage is far less in lives, hospitalization,  work lost,  burden on   
   > our health care system, inconvenience and money lost.   
      
      
   I can see that you teally believe that people who live in the "sticks"   
   are not worth nearly as much as those who live in the Big Smoke.   
      
   Do you also support Toronto sending its garbage to the sticks   
   so the people who live in Toronto will not have to deal with it ?   
      
      
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