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From: MasonS on 6 Dec 2009 07:04 On 5 Dec, 23:31, Conor <co...(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote: > In article <0c2f34b5-12b2-4ab8-84aa-756320ec18a5 > @v19g2000vbk.googlegroups.com>, Mas...(a)BP.com says... > > > Sadly though the world's current oil consumption is 86 million barrels > > *a day", so your 2.5 billion barrels cited above will only last around > > a *month* not 79 years. > > The entire known world oil reserves will last about 36 years at > > *current* consumption levels. > > Err, it was the global definition of a billon whch is a million > million, not the UK definition. > > -- > Conorwww.notebooks-r-us.co.uk > > I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally. Er, it's the other way round! -- Simon Masom
From: MasonS on 6 Dec 2009 07:05 On 5 Dec, 23:35, Conor <co...(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote: > In article <e9a3918d-0392-4122-8b92-5b74d6728050 > @o23g2000vbi.googlegroups.com>, Mas...(a)BP.com says... > > > The food a cyclist eats contains *the same* carbon atoms going round > > and round. > > The plant absorbs it, I eat it, breathe it out and the plant takes it > > in again. > > > The fuel a car burns is adding *new* carbon to the atmosphere that had > > been locked away for millennia. > > > Please do not confuse the two. > > And you of course grow all your own food using equipment manufactured by > yourself which you created from raw materials you got by yourself using > no manufactured tools? > > Or did you get your food from the shop where it was delivered by truck > from a warehouse supplied by trucks from the manufacturers who use > materials supplied by trucks and also electricity generated from > powerstations? > > -- > Conorwww.notebooks-r-us.co.uk > > I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally. Don't car drivers have to eat as well? Stop clutching at straws. -- Simon Mason
From: MasonS on 6 Dec 2009 07:15 On 6 Dec, 00:14, "The Medway Handyman" <davidl...(a)nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > Mas...(a)BP.com wrote: > > On 5 Dec, 18:43, %ste...(a)malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote: > >> Mas...(a)BP.com <Mas...(a)BP.com> wrote: > >>> Look at the advert at the bottom right of this page. > >>> How much would the driver of this car pay? > >>> Should he be allowed on the roads having paid no VED? > > >>>http://www.swldxer.co.uk/zmotormouth.jpg > > >> That's the car that emits less CO2 than the equivalent number of > >> cyclists you mean? The car that needs a VED document which requires > >> proof that the vehicle was registered, insured and has passed an > >> annual safety inspection if > three years old? > > >> Just checking. > > > The CO2 which that car emits comes from *oil* which is non renewable. > > > The CO2 that cyclists breathe out comes from *food*, a renewable > > resource. > > > Oh and car drivers breathe as well inside their vehicles. > > Just how pathetic an argument are you prepared to use to support your cause? > > > > > Not all CO2 is the same. > > > Next you will be asking for tax discs for horses based on the fact > > that they breathe more heavily than a cyclist. > > Horses don't, by & large, clog up traffic. Horse riders don't have horse > lanes, advanced horse areas, ride on the pavement, ride the wrong way up one > way streets etc. > > Typical knob head cyclist argument. > > -- > Dave - The Tax Paying Motorist- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - Thanks Christ I don't live around Kent. You seem a very angry white van man who sees everyone as obstacles who get in your way. I was once a little like you, frustrated at cyclists getting past me while I was stuck in traffic, so I decided to leave the car at home for the most part and now I never have to worry about traffic jams and have become fit and slim. Your anger is only affecting *you*, the cyclists you so despise don't give a monkeys as long as you don't hit them. -- Simon Mason
From: MasonS on 6 Dec 2009 07:17 On 6 Dec, 00:17, "The Medway Handyman" <davidl...(a)nospamblueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > Mas...(a)BP.com wrote: > > On 5 Dec, 21:02, "PeterE" <pe...(a)xyzringtail.fsnet.co.uk> wrote: > >> <Mas...(a)BP.com> wrote in message > > >>news:0c2f34b5-12b2-4ab8-84aa-756320ec18a5(a)v19g2000vbk.googlegroups.com... > > >>> The entire known world oil reserves will last about 36 years at > >>> *current* consumption levels. > > >> Which is about the same ratio as it was at the time of the 1973 oil > >> crisis. > > > Luckily my esteemed colleagues keep finding it and cyclists like me > > keep saving it and all we get is abuse from the people who we are > > saving it for! > > So are you one of the idiots fudging the figures to 'prove' climate change & > keep your job safe? > > -- > Dave - The Tax Paying Motorist- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - Hardly - I work in the oil industry! Proving climate change would put me out of a job. -- Simon Mason
From: Tom Crispin on 6 Dec 2009 07:32
On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 04:02:55 -0800 (PST), "MasonS(a)BP.com" <MasonS(a)BP.com> wrote: >On 5 Dec, 23:08, JNugent <J...(a)noparticularplacetogo.com> wrote: >> Mas...(a)BP.com wrote: >> > Of course, cyclists pay for motorways... >> >> Even you must be cringing at having typed that. > >Why? - it is true. Motorways, unlike local roads which are funded out >of council tax are funded out of the big treasury pot that little old >ladies cycling to the grocers pay into. Possibly not. Many little old ladies are not net contributors to general taxation, and much that they buy at the grocer is untaxed; if they cycle they are not paying VAT or duty on their fuel, and it is possible that they don't have a car and therefore do not pay vehicle excise duty. And if they travel to the grocer by bus it is likely that their transport costs are met out of general taxation via their local council, funded in a substantial part by the treasury. But I do know what you mean. |