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Thread #66696   Message #1113480
Posted By: Chief Chaos
10-Feb-04 - 01:20 PM
Thread Name: BS: Oil will run out
Subject: RE: BS: Oil will run out
Didn't mean to offend, I wasn't aware of all the new technology being used. Sounds like you folk have got your act together! Congrats! Glad to know our northern cousins don't have their head up their ass like us!
I know alot of people would not like to read from an e-reader but then alot of people didn't want to ride in cars or airplanes when they were first introduced. I just see it as mass distribution without alot of overhead cost. No delivery vans (which in my day of delivering papers weren't very well kept. No hauling of raw materials to the printer, Not as much electricity needed to put out the product. No paper to be put in a landfill (not all American cities or for that matter not all countries recycle).

The idea of burning the paper put out for recycling that has never been used came from news shows that were lamenting the high price of recycling programs and showed out of business recycling centers with tons and tons of paper just sitting in the recycling yard. I did not mean it as a "clean" source of energy. But I would argue that it is probably cleaner than coal burning plants and much better than strip mining which the present administration seems to be close to allowing.