[TriLUG] [OT] TriLUGger on the news
tomed at bellsouth.net
tomed at bellsouth.net
Mon May 21 15:02:22 EDT 2007
That's what I've got, on a folding mountain bike. I can bum rides off
people, if their trunk's not full of stuff.
Tom Ed
At Mon, 21 May 2007 08:13:15 -0700 (PDT),
Kevin J. wrote:
>
> ...or add a Bionx unit to your current bike:
>
> http://www.bicycleman.com/bionx-electric-bikes/index.htm
>
> Kevin
>
> Have you F/LOSSed today?
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Magnus <magnus at trilug.org>
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 9:57:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] [OT] TriLUGger on the news
>
>
> jason at monsterjam.org wrote:
> > get a motorcycle.. ;)
>
>
> I had considered that. The idea isn't necessarily to burn less
> petroleum. It's to burn NONE.
>
> I'm not exactly a tree hugging hippy but even I see that we have reached
> "Peak Oil", probably years ago, and the only way we're going to be able
> to continue to thrive is to re-examine the fundamental ways in which we
> live and what we really "need" vs. what is simply a convenience.
>
> If there were such a thing as a reasonably priced electric motorcycle
> with a ~60-80 mile range that plugged into an outlet at night to
> "refuel" I'd probably consider it. Yes, it's shifting the energy burden
> upstream, but economies of scale make that a vast improvement over
> individual internal combustion engines.
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