Re: Camera Card Reader

John Navas wrote:
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:45:23 -0600, Ron Hunter <rphunter@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in <G-6dneH6b745PMbUnZ2dnUVZ_r3inZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

ASAAR wrote:

That might have been a valid point if you made it a decade or two
ago. Today however, other countries want their own Route 66es.
There is/are an incredibly large number of Indians and Chinese that
are much younger than 66, and their countries not only have a
greater industrial growth rate than ours, they're building highways
like you wouldn't believe - or wouldn't want to believe. "Drill
baby, drill" can be at best only a very short delaying tactic. :)

Yes, they are building cars, and highways for them to drive on, and we are not building many highways, mostly because it takes 10 years to get the environmentalist pacified. Meanwhile, we burn millions of gallons of fuel, and create tons of pollution with all those cars sitting in traffic jams. Sensible? Nope, and it seems that environmentalists would realize that everything is interrelated, and if you mess with one part of the pollution equation, it balances itself.

That's arm waving, not science. While the cars sitting in traffic jams
do burn more fuel, that's far less that a lot more cars sitting in
traffic jams on more highways would burn. Paving over America won't
help. We can't build highways fast enough to avoid traffic jams even
without any construction delays, and we can't fuel a lot more of these
cars in any event.

What we have to do, instead of falsely accusing environmentalists, is
make lighter, smaller, and more efficient cars (which we already know
how to do), and reduce the need for those cars (which we also know how
to do).

Well, there are several ways to reduce the need for cars. We could let half the population of the country starve because they suddenly don't have food because some idiot decided to solve the pollution problem by just limiting the number of cars and trucks. Of course some solutions are worse than the problems they solve. That one is similar to the Stalin approach.
Then there was Hitler's approach to population control... Nature often uses a variation on that theme, and none of those ideas are pretty.

I don't believe anyone suggested 'paving over' the country, just some rational approaches to transportation, such as building highways that are adequate for the projected traffic.
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