[Gllug] [OT] Technobabble

[David Damerell]

On Monday, 21 Nov 2005, Chris Bell wrote:
>On Mon 21 Nov, David Damerell wrote:
>>No, orders of magnitude more somewhat cleaner cars is *not* one of the
>>things necessary to save the environment. It is one of the things that
>>will ensure the destruction of same. What is needed is _fewer_ motor
>>cars (and cleaner ones wouldn't hurt, either).
>   I have heard a (possibly incorrect) claim that the amount of energy
>required to build a car is comparable to the amount of energy required to
>power the car through its expected lifetime.

This is one of the reasons why "somewhat" in the paragraph above will
remain "somewhat" for the forseeable future, yes. Quite right.

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