The manufacturing, advertising, sale, and delivery of this vehicle to its owner required the refining & burning of about 127 barrels, or 7000 gallons of oil. AND, especially after the manufacturer or the manufacturer’s warranty expires, this vehicle will emit carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, CFC’s/HCFC’s, soot, sulfur dioxide, hydrocarbons, benzene, methane, aldehydes, HEAT, and volatile organic compounds (VOC's). Causes noise, increased traffic, competition for, or creation of, paving and parking space, road-kill, gridlock, road rage, deaths and personal injury, used/junked car disposal crisis, global warming, storms, evacuations, flooding, respiratory disease, cancer, wars, death and ecocide. Especially Harmful to Other Species and Children.
By James DMake-it-home-safe MANTRA: When dealing with traffic, it's better to be patient than to become a patient; AND - A Sailboat is to a Polluting Cruise Ship what a bicycle is to a smokin' Hummer. I know bikes are beautiful but I’M not backing off until bikes are bountiful and bikers have greater strength in numbers. CategoriesArchives
February 2016
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