Ban The Drive Thru! Save The World!

[Jerconjake]

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Good Lord, people! That newspaper article goes on to state that car idling amounts to 0.02% of Canada's greenhouse gas emissions! We need to stop focusing in on enormous corporate contributors to harmful waste and recognize that 5 cars in a lineup idling LOOKS really bad for the environment! I just hope that learned people will recognize what a real, non-political threat this is! I mean, if the average consumer isn't really the problem, why would politicians scapegoat them? We've all got to do our part to not sit in drive-thrus! And for that matter, we should all stop idling at red lights! I would never have burned my tank of gas if it hadn't been for that damned drive thru at the red light on route 66...

[The-evil-bucket]

I wish you would use paragraphs, it would make me respect you...somewhat.

Anyway, since fast food places are usually the ones with the drive thru's, I wouldn't mind banning them. Anything to hurt the fast food industry.

[cellardoor6]

Wow... that's beyond dumb.

Pass.

[Elfer]

We should ban drive-thru windows because hey I used to work at a place with one of those and it sucked.

Just park and come in to order, geez.

[morefngdbs]

Can I have a black coffee & a blueberry muffin please .
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Seriously, something like 80% of the problem polution wise comes from big business.
When they start doing something significant, I might stop burning tires..... Ok , well We'll still burn the on the ice in the winter for warmth, but we won't burn them the rest of the time.

It's the same with all the recycling that is done here in Nova Scotia. I have a friend who works at one of the sorting stations & he told me that when they have too much cardboard & no place to send it & more coming in all the time. They load it at night in trucks that take it to the land fill, same thing with plastic.
You turn off the drive through speakers & I'm driving up & banging on the window...Where's my coffee damn it! don't try to get between me & my morning fix.

[ThePretenders]

Did you know that walking to the shops produces more CO2 than driving?

So remember people, drive more, walk less, and save the world by lazy means.Food production is now so energy-intensive that more carbon is emitted providing a person with enough calories to walk to the shops than a car would emit over the same distance. The climate could benefit if people avoided exercise, ate less and became couch potatoes. Provided, of course, they remembered to switch off the TV rather than leaving it on standby.

The sums were done by Chris Goodall, campaigning author of How to Live a Low-Carbon Life, based on the greenhouse gases created by intensive beef production. "Driving a typical UK car for 3 miles [4.8km] adds about 0.9 kg [2lb] of CO2 to the atmosphere," he said, a calculation based on the Government's official fuel emission figures. "If you walked instead, it would use about 180 calories. You'd need about 100g of beef to replace those calories, resulting in 3.6kg of emissions, or four times as much as driving.

So remember people, drive more, walk less, and save the world through lazy means.

[ThePretenders]

At 2/7/08 04:49 PM, ThePretenders wrote: Did you know that walking to the shops produces more CO2 than driving?

So remember people, drive more, walk less, and save the world by lazy means.

Fuck, there should be an edit button.

[JudgeDredd]

At 2/7/08 04:49 PM, ThePretenders wrote: Did you know that walking to the shops produces more CO2 than driving?

haha! So according to those calculations my cat's afternoon sleep costs the planet more than a car driven to the local gym and back.

[SkunkyFluffy]

At 2/7/08 08:45 PM, JudgeDredd wrote: haha! So according to those calculations my cat's afternoon sleep costs the planet more than a car driven to the local gym and back.

Well, I mean, come on. It's a cat. They're the most evil animal alive.

And I say that as someone who currently has one purring loudly on her lap, having shoved my laptop out of the way so he could snuggle.