Matt:
I'm too young to remember the seventies. Can you point me towards a
link that explains what you're talking about, with regards to reduced
fuel efficiency in cars for marginally better results at the tailpipe?
Sounds interesting.
Thanks
-Maxime Camirand
Matt Colie wrote:
> KLC,
>
> I don't like the thought of spills either, but three Canadian companies
> have a total of 450+ wells for both oil and natural gas in Lake Erie
> alone. They seem to manage just fine (with gear and technology from
> American suppliers).
>
> Recently, I was told by someone that has studied these problems for many
> years that most of the oil on Lake Erie comes from untrapped storm
> drains. The last big one was the Rouge River about three years ago.
>
> We have the opportunity to correct a lot of problems if we pick the real
> ones instead of the "politically correct" ones.
>
> This has been my problem with the "evironmental movement" since they
> forced cars to get much reduced fuel economy in favor of maginally
> reduced tailpipe emissions. Remember the early cat cars of the mid
> seventies?
>
> Matt
>
>
> KLC Lewis wrote:
> > "Matt Colie" <nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> > news:_Omah.51$gS6.18@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >>Why do they make noise about dependence on foreign oil and not let
anybody
> >>go get what we have. (Canada has wells in most of the great lakes -
we
> >>aren't allowed to, Cuba will soon be using Chinese investment to
drill
> >>under the Florida straight - we can't do that either.)
> >>
> >>Matt Colie - environmentally conscious but educated and realistic
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > I'm all for energy-independence, but I cannot believe that oil wells
on our
> > Great Lakes would be a good idea. Oil spills from rigs on the oceans
are bad
> > enough -- but similar spills on the Lakes would be disasterous.
> >
> >
