Yep. Money decides, and that's a pity IMO. > You should not go away now. Better to stay at home instead of driving > around. Did I sat I would go by car? ;-) The truth is that I am, but I _do_ travel a lot by public transport.
Anyway. I havent time for a debate now, I'm off riding my car ;-) Tim Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian) Never underestimate the power of stupidity in large crowds (Very freely after Arthur C. Clarke, or some other clever guy) > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Trautmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 28. april 2006 16:46 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Local Gas Prices > > On 2006-04-28 16:34, Tim Øsleby wrote: > > I don't have time for a large debate, I'm going away, but I just have to > get > > this off my chest: > > > > And who says we _have_ to transport our daily life goods around the > globe? > > IMO, doing that is plain stupidity. Buy local food slow food. I try to > live > > by that slogan, but it is near impossible. > > I'm always surprised how cheap it is. Apart from ships dedicated e.g. to > south american orange juice (I don't know what they transport backwards), > it's amazingly cheap to ship a full container of tea or other stuff around > the world, when you spread these costs on the product itself. Transporting > this futher on by truck may cost much more for the final miles. > > That's one of the reasons why transporting apples from the other side of > the continent (including low farming and harvest costs) is much cheaper > that the local fruits around. Not a good idea - but still a reasonable > economic behavior. > > > This is because many of us don't care about what we do to Mother Earth. > (I'm > > not accusing any specific persons, please have that in mind). > > You should not go away now. Better to stay at home instead of driving > around. The individual's motorized traffic is one of the major wastes of > energy (together with heating in this county or cooling elswhere). > > > Sorry about this political outburst. Let me add a little friendly :-) > > Don't get me wrong ;-) > Martin >
