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Date Posted: 23:56:45 01/30/02 Wed
Author: Bedwyr
Subject: Re: Well Solar....
In reply to: Nemesis 's message, "Re: Well Solar...." on 23:26:30 01/29/02 Tue

Hehe, no biggy... I used to love snow too just like everyone else, and then I had a massive amount of bad driving experiences on it and I just kinda lost my taste for it, hehe. Of course, that's mostly because I live in a rural area and they don't do a good job of plowing our roads, so when it snows, I get screwed when I try to go to work in the morning or come home at night. Among my pleasant experiences, I've been stuck in the driveway (not just the wheels, the whole underside of the car), spun out and stuck atop a large snowbank, lost it and slid sideways into a frozen wall of a ditch at about 40 mph (seatbelts are your friend, kids), then of course your basic winter I'm gonna freeze to death if I'm out here more than 15 minutes days where you spend 10 minutes trying to open your door only to discover that your car won't start, and the ever-popular walking through a parking lot and falling on your ass. Hehe, I'm just not a winter guy is all. Sorry if I came off as being an ignorant ass, because I know I can do that sometimes, but I really do care. I try to do my part... I recycle and I also spend the extra money to put 10% ethanol fuel in my car. Cars really should've switched to ethanol by now, but oil companies just have too much power and nobody seems to want to go through the work that it would take to start marketing and supporting ethanol fueled cars. Even if the carmakers started making them for mainstream use (because they do exist and they run just as well), how many gas stations can you pull up to that are selling 80% ethanol fuel? Which is, of course, besides the issue of the massive boost in economy it would create considering the government pays farmers not to grow corn. I wish it was a better world than that, but unfortunately it's a sick cycle of political bullshit. I think a lot of people don't give their support for things like ethanol cars or hydrogen power research, though because of the initial cost to implement them, when in fact it would end up being an infinitely cheaper and also renewable source of energy. There are so many sources of clean and renewable energy, but not enough open-minded people to see them in effect anytime soon. I really hope that the mildness of this winter isn't going to reflect future winters... I can't say I haven't seen droughts here and there though, and I always hear about them because I live in a big farming community. Anyway, I'm rambling like mad, and it's almost 2am, so I'll see ya later, hehe.

-Bedwyr

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