Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/05/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I did not know that, but always try to be green, FWIW. My whole family -try- to be green but forget a lot of the time :-) Frank On 4 May, 2010, at 16:53, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > Frank, > The supertankers used to ferry your oil, around 15-20 of them, let out more > pollutants into the atmosphere every year than all the cars in the world > put > together, mainly because they use unrefined, poisonous and highly polluting > fuel like Bunker oil, mainly to keep costs of transport down to, if I > remember right, 2/3 cents per gallon. > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie at > btinternet.com>wrote: > >> I have worked in motor racing all my life, F1 mostly. During the last fuel >> crisis there was much heart searching about whether it was appropriate to >> race cars. A quick calculation showed that all the cars in all the races >> of >> the World Championship in a year consumed a touch more fuel than -one- >> transatlantic Boeing 747 flight... >> It turns out that sport using the biggest amount of fuel, amongst those >> checked, was Soccer, and it is the fan's cars driving to a huge number of >> matches per week worldwide which consume it, not the participants. >> BTW you perhaps unwittingly made an interesting point about the >> demographic >> of sports fans. In the USA motor sport is a "blue-collar" sport, NASCAR >> and >> Drag racing, in other countries it is a "white-collar" sport, and means >> Karts followed by single-seaters. This is -very- noticeable when you >> travel >> worldwide in the business, and is the main reason for only sporadic World >> Championship events being held in the USA. It is too expensive for most US >> racing fans to stomach, and too "low-class" for Americans who can afford >> it >> to consider. Having said that there is a tiny but very knowledgeable and >> enthusiastic core of F1 supporters in the US! >> cheers, >> Frank >> >> On 4 May, 2010, at 05:02, Vince Passaro wrote: >> >>> And finally, Nathan, people who fly a lot contribute to vastly more CO2 >>> emissions than people who go to auto races. Ahem. You can green up your >>> whole life but if you take two planes a year you're part of the problem, >> not >>> the solution. We might not like this fact, because despite our good >>> intentions we intend to keep flying, but it represents the facts so leave >>> the poor monster trucks out of it. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information