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Seems simple doesn't it? Except in my school district if you got caught doing that you could be fired. Our policy is the driver stays with the bus, period. But then again, my district doesn't care if you have to drive with fogged over windows either. I guess you must have a school district that actually cares what happens to the driver. You're very lucky, where do I apply?
As I said, I don't advocate for wasting gas, just for not wasting lives.
Oh, and in my state, that ten minute warm-up would get you a $300 fine. You are allowed 5 minutes. About 25 minutes too little to warm up our diesels with their 1950's defroster systems.
Oh, and is booze served in this lodge? Sorry, going in there will get you canned too. :sick:
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LOL. Now you know why that bus driver was always so cranky!
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I may just move to NM in a few years; getting the itch. I wonder how many other states have a Climate Change Advisory Group?
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Too late for the NM job. They gave their final report last year. It will be interesting to see if they come even a little close to what they are proposing. Looks like everyone has move into Carlsbad Caverns and ship in food by electric rail from TX. Should be cozy down there.
http://www.nmclimatechange.us/ewebeditpro/items/O117F10150.pdf
As for the laws banning smoking in cars with children, I, as a Respiratory Therapist, know of the nastiness of this for the children's health. Long ago, as a 8 or 9 year old kid, when the evils of cigarette smoke were not talked about much and not publicised much, I can still remember in the neighborhood I grew up in Edmonds, WA, getting in the our neighbor's '62 Chevy Nova II with my neighbor friend's mother lighting up in there. Seems to me the windows were rolled down to let air in and smoke out. But it didn't seem to matter much, I remember my eyes stinging and feeling like coughing after just a short ride to downtown Edmonds with them.
Remembering that car has sparked my love of that Chevy compact now as an adult, but remembering that cigarette smoke still makes me cringe. The Dad used to have 3 or 4 cigarettes lit at once in various locations in the house...the neighbor kids used to laugh about it as they told us that.
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Having skied since 1948 all over the West, it is my impression the boarders are usually out of control more than the skiers and the boarders scuff off the snow leaving ice below. 2005, Whistler a middle age boarder slammed into my wife, knocking her down while she was just standing by the top of the chairlift. After recovering from her concussion, she now wears a helmet. Skiers are more polite in comparison to boarders.
As for Climate Change Advisory Group - GW is one of the centuries biggest and broadest hoaxs. I'll look for you at Bogus Basin and stay out of your way.
Scuffing snow is an urban legend. So is politeness. For a while there boarding was an adolescent activity with all those ramifications. Now the youngsters have moved on to twin tips so those are the terrors of the hill. When boarders ride backwards (switch) they are still facing you - not the twin tip guys.
Bummer about your wife - I don't hang out at the top of chairlifts since people are coming off the chairs and I don't want to get smashed either.
The ski industry is pretty active on the global warming issue.
"The reality is that people are dying already," said Jacques Diouf, of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). "Naturally people won't be sitting dying of starvation, they will react," he said.
The UN says it takes 232kg of corn to fill a 50-litre car tank with ethanol. That is enough to feed a child for a year. Last week, the UN predicted "massacres" unless the biofuel policy is halted.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/04/14/ccview114.xml
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Last month was the warmest March on record over land surfaces of the world and the second warmest overall worldwide.
For the United States, however, it was just an average March, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Thursday.
I guess all those people moving out of SUVs into smaller cars did the trick !!!
Keep it up folks !!!!
Conversely, we can then assume that the rest of the world was "bad", and burned more gasoline and diesel in their scooters and cars?
And, BTW, I thought we weren't supposed to infer anything from annual variations let alone a single monthly anomaly! Can we really have it both ways?
Sure, we can have it any way the media wants it.
Many years ago I was worried by what seemed an ever increasing amount of crime where I lived. I happened to mention this to a friend who worked for a local newspaper. His response gave me a new perspective on how to analyze the news.
He said that if you want to create a crime wave all you have to do is report ALL the crime. This gives the appearance that crime has increased .
Similarly, if you report EVERY prediction or report about GW (no matter how bad the science) people will believe that there is overwhelming proof that it is happening.
My local paper which has a distinct left-wing slant has been doing this for about 2 years. Big booming headlines followed by fluff articles which rehash the same questionable claims. No opposing views allowed.
The trouble is, most people just read the headlines and then flip to the personal ads with an ever increasing dread that tomorrow they will be underwater.
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They have enormously, and erroneously, increased peoples' fear of GW. They talk us into financial downturns, (along with their buddies in the financial markets), and very few of them serve any useful purpose.
When I lived in Scotland we had a local headline that proclaimed :"Road Casualty Rate Doubles In Past Year". Well, it was true............that year we had two road injuries, (a young guy fell off his motorbuke and an elderly soul wandered in front a slow moving bus), neither even vaguely serious compared to just one the previous year. That one headline started all sorts of shouting for reduced speed limits, more police patrols, speed bumps; the whole works. As long as the greater population are too lazy to look a little closer than the headline the headline writers - and their masters - will continue to hold sway.
Apologies - getting into rant territory here. Time for a cup of tea and a biscuit.
Remember the summer of the shark attacks. I'll bet it was the same number and patterns as other years, but the media decided to play on that and everyone became afraid of shark bites. I even took out sharkbite insurance and I'm 200 miles from Lake Michigan, in case a shark wandered in there or came up the Missippi River and Ohio River. :P
It's the same with political games but that's a topic for another discussion. However the media folk can effect their own personal power by choosing the topics and misrepresenting data or leaving the data incomplete as in the accident doubles example.
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You both have pinpointed the problem. Though the media has a long history of slanting the news to keep control of the masses. William Randolph Hearst may have been one of the worst or should I say best at biased news to sway popular opinion in the direction he felt was correct. It is a tool of the elitist. Just as Hearst did not believe most of us had the brains to come out of the rain, same goes for our current day news people. Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch being prime examples. Murdoch being the smarter of the two. He has turned many folks against conservative principles by using in your face right wing talking heads to distort the news. ALL of the majors are Liberal elitists wanting to gain control of the people. Murdoch being a social friend to Hillary.
The Media has jumped on the GW bandwagon and are beating the horses to death.
It must be that they are hoping to get the advertising rights on selling carbon credits.
Maybe the warm march is a result of volcanic activity here in the islands. It is dumping 100s of tons of SO2 into the atmosphere daily. Where is Al Gore when you need him?
I've been enjoying reading the papers that allow comments at the end of the stories. You can find some interesting opposing (and supporting) viewpoints there amidst a lot of dreck.
If anyone missed An Inconvenient Truth as I did, and wants to see the quickie version (great for those of us with short attention spans), Ted.com has a vid of Al speaking in Monterey.
Ted.com
Lots of other interesting talking heads there, from Isabel Allende to Stephen Hawking.
One of the site sponsors is BMW (topical eh? :shades: )
That's an ideal situation for those pushing the concept of doom and gloom; there's no way to tell when it's over. The idea that the science being presented may not be valid is far beyond their level in the media.
I've tried to present this with no vitriol.
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I changed out all my light bulbs and sold the Hot tub and my electric bill dropped more than 50%..... I don't need a law to tell me what will save money. Education without political agenda is good, more laws are not needed.
The nexus here: by far housing energy use is greater than the auto passenger vehicle fleet use described in the US as 12,000 to15,000 miles per year by the average driver and registered (2006) 251.4 M vehicles.
They would REALLY REMOVE the obstacles to LESS energy use if it were REALLY that important. So really all this global warming stuff is the NWO mechanisms- aka CODE, by which all of the costs, fees, taxations, on energy development, R & D, distribution, use and consumption are sent UP!!!!
Direct democracy seems to work ok in Switzerland btw, and certainly many US states use the initiate/referendum system with varying degrees of success. Wiki seems to cover the options well.
I'm not ready to part with my hot tub yet. :shades:
Direct democracy seems to work ok in Switzerland btw,
How many illegal aliens do you think they have voting in their elections? That is a very closed society that can hardly be used as an example for US.
And we're both off-topic. :shades:
I assumed my tub would cost $1 a day but it's way less than we expected. Maybe it's more efficient since it's hooked into the 220 circuit. It gets used at least 3 times a week - usually gets more use than the Subaru. (to sort of stretch to get topical).
Not till they pry it from your warm wrinkled butt! (sorry Mr. Heston)
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I doubt that Steve or anyone else would ever ask such a question. However, asking how to convert $50 into kilowatt-hours would be meaningful. :P
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Most of the VWs I see are TDI powered. Diesel is about the same as CA prices.
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We are at the 2000 foot level so little chance of GW raising the sea to our level.
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The theory is that radiation from mobile phones interferes with bees' navigation systems, preventing the famously homeloving species from finding their way back to their hives. Improbable as it may seem, there is now evidence to back this up.
Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) occurs when a hive's inhabitants suddenly disappear, leaving only queens, eggs and a few immature workers, like so many apian Mary Celestes. The vanished bees are never found, but thought to die singly far from home. The parasites, wildlife and other bees that normally raid the honey and pollen left behind when a colony dies, refuse to go anywhere near the abandoned hives.
The alarm was first sounded last autumn, but has now hit half of all American states. The West Coast is thought to have lost 60 per cent of its commercial bee population, with 70 per cent missing on the East Coast.
CCD has since spread to Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece. And last week John Chapple, one of London's biggest bee-keepers, announced that 23 of his 40 hives have been abruptly abandoned.
Other apiarists have recorded losses in Scotland, Wales and north-west England, but the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs insisted: "There is absolutely no evidence of CCD in the UK."
The implications of the spread are alarming. Most of the world's crops depend on pollination by bees. Albert Einstein once said that if the bees disappeared, "man would have only four years of life left".
No one knows why it is happening. Theories involving mites, pesticides, global warming and GM crops have been proposed, but all have drawbacks.
German research has long shown that bees' behaviour changes near power lines.
Now a limited study at Landau University has found that bees refuse to return to their hives when mobile phones are placed nearby. Dr Jochen Kuhn, who carried it out, said this could provide a "hint" to a possible cause.
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/are-mobile-phones-wiping-out-our- -bees-444768.html
This story does have a few corrolations going on with it, doesn't it?
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CCD is a real problem in the farming business. I don't think they've come up with any real science to blame it on any one factor. Global warming is the least likely cause because honey bees have a wide range of tolerance. Pesticides might explain it but don't see why it wouldn't have happened decades ago when pesticides were much stronger and more persistent (think DDT). Same with cell phones. They've been in use for years. Why would this condition happen now?
The only thing for sure is that any one with an agenda will twist the available information to suit their purposes. Me, for example, I blame it all on my mother-in-law.
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The tomatoes in the Straw bales were 2 foot high when we left for Hawaii.
So you tried it! Great. Let us know. Pictures?
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He could be brokering those carbon credits like mad! After all, I am fairly certain that he invented the concept of the bee hive.
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