--- John Foster <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Emma,
>
> Steve's reasoning is flawed. Cars are not mandatory, especially in large
> cities. People can always take the bus, fast rail transit or some other

Neither are refrigerators.  Billions of people all around the world get
along just fine without them.


> form
> of public transport. People even in the forests near Golfo Dulce, Costa
> Rica, have a fridge. The only other electronic device they have is a 12
> volt
> TV. The stock will be propane or kerosene. The fridge is all that modern
> technology has to offer that is essential, well except an internet
> fridge
> [Electrolux].
>
> Secondly, air conditioning in California is almost entirely a waste of
> energy. Some people there heat the swimming pools. If you are Canadian,

You don't heat a swimming pool with an AC unit.


> then
> cold water is below -55, but for a person in Los Angelos cold water is
> about -72 [Fahrenheit] or less.

-72?  Ummm John I think most people would find negative 72 cold.

Also, most people don't heat their pools.


> I was an american [US - American] city once ....Salt Lake City. I never

John surely you mis-wrote...you were a city?


> saw
> anyone riding a bike, or walking, and very few buses. The street lights
> are
> opportunities for smokers to flick ciggarette butts onto the street
> where
> the side walk cornersa are located. The butts pile up in drifts and
> sometimes plug up the city drains. I heard that someone was overcome

This is probably inaccurate now.  The number of people smoking these days
is less than half of the adult populaiton, IIRC, and it is decreasing as
time goes by.


> once by
> a wash of cigg. buts one day whilst crossing a street during a down
> pour.

LOL, very funny.



> When I went to the US national park called Mojave and Canyonlands, I
> went to
> the confluence of the Green and Colorado Rivers. Before I got there I
> found
> volunteers in the park raking up foot prints. These footprints were in
> the
> sand across from the Maze area. The volunteers told me that the week
> before
> was spring break and there were hundreds of students who drove there
> from as
> far away as LA and Denver City. They go there to find wilderness because
> this is the most remote and large wilderness area in the contiquous US.
>
> I had to laugh because I never find other hikers or footprints in most
> of my
> wilderness adventures here in BC.
>
> Even my backyard is 50,000 wilderness without trails.

Care to rephrase this...aww nevermind.

Steve

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"In a nutshell, he [Steve] is 100% unadulterated evil. I do not believe in a 'Satan', but this man is as close to 'the real McCoy' as they come."
--Jamey Lee West

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