Group: alt.energy.renewable
From: Eeyore
Date: Sunday, October 07, 2007 5:31 AM
Subject: Re: Time for big steps on global warming



Whata Fool wrote:

> E wrote:
> >Whata Fool wrote:
>
> >> Now, about the car, if I lived where there were more than one
> >> road going in the direction I go, I would have a light weight electric
> >> vehicle. But on a narrow 4 lane highway with no center lane and
> >> no emergency lane most of the way, I would not ride that road with
> >> the biggest English car I have seen, those 60 ton semi trucks going
> >> 70 and 80 scare me, and most drivers are more aggressive than
> >> a race car driver in a race.
> >
> >US trucks don't go to 60 tons.
>
> What do you think a semi carry-all hauling an M1 tank weighs,
> it is pretty hard to strip too much weight off an 80 ton tank.

That's hardly a normal load. How about the ones you see routinely. I'll also bet
it's not doing 80 with a tank on the back either ! Exaggeration weakens any
argument you had.

Graham