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Post by losiphile on Aug 11, 2005 8:41:46 GMT 8
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Post by g.b.b on Aug 11, 2005 8:55:37 GMT 8
this means...i'll push thru with my bike shop....yiiipeeeeeeeeeee!!!! ;D <clap clap clap clap>
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Post by [ eRECTUS ] on Aug 11, 2005 9:03:07 GMT 8
Yeah Bikes! ;D informative article!
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Post by whoopi on Aug 11, 2005 11:38:20 GMT 8
interesting. but the solution may not only be "to reduce our reliance on petroleum as a major source of our energy and begin the transition to alternative fuels", but also to rationalize energy consumption in the first place. it seems we are not even prepared to look into reducing consumption (e.g., more biking and less driving). we can't be forever looking into alternative sources of energy.
reminds me of a criticism lobbed at the MMDA when they started creating u-turns and pedestrian overpasses to ease traffic congestion. the solution, this critic said, is to reduce the volume of cars. if you allow the volume of cars to increase, he argued, what are you going to do in the next few years, create more roads? rather than worry about increasing supply, reduce the demand instead.
like coffee mate in my coffee, it made sense to me.
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Post by Ben Dover on Aug 11, 2005 12:14:36 GMT 8
hold on...love that song by Side A (?)...hehe!
indeed! another example of yesterday's solutions becoming today's problems...and most likely our today's solutions will become our tomorrow's problems..
we solved the problem with slow transportation with the introduction of internal combustion powered vehicles...now we live a life thats faster but we also have fuel problem, pollution, ozone depletion, global warming and deseases spreading faster etc..
did we really improved our lives? why dont we go back to using our legs or kaleza and make our lives a little bit slower again..:-)
just a thought...
napa sobra nanaman kape ko.
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Post by whoopi on Aug 11, 2005 12:37:54 GMT 8
TOLITS, it seems from your avatar that you've grown more hair than the last time i saw you ;D
re modern technology, i think what we should ask is how has it improved the quality of our lives. in areas like medicine, thank goodness for progress. in warfare, woe to us. i'd go for a gas stove vs. a coal burner, or a train vs. a calesa, if it means i'd have more free time to enjoy the company of my loved ones, read, smell the flowers. but sometimes modern inventions only appear to give me more time, but it's actually poisioning me with toxic chemicals, thus shortening my life and not really giving me more time at all. or, it demands so much to maintain that i have to use that free time anyway to ensure i keep having it, like a crazy cycle.
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Post by coolangot ☺ on Aug 11, 2005 18:29:31 GMT 8
hmm.. how much is a horse today? ;D
i'm thinking of having a calesa when I'm too tired to bike.. heh heh heh...
Brionne, any plans of putting up a calesa store? ;D
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Post by [ eRECTUS ] on Aug 11, 2005 18:39:22 GMT 8
hmm.. how much is a horse today? ;D i'm thinking of having a calesa when I'm too tired to bike.. heh heh heh... ;D LOLz ;D
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