From: "Mel Grindol" <grindol_at_my-deja.com> > Fuel cell still needs substantial work before they become a real world item. Yet Ballard & friends are claiming that they'll be commercial and twice as efficient as today in two or three years. > Went home and checked how I install my rack. I put it on tight enough [...] My Civic has a strip of plastic in the almost-a-rain-gutter where the foot of the rack mount sits. Perhaps this is generating more friction than yours. I thought the Integra had a similar roof design though. If the clips are sliding on the extender bar, perhaps you could squeeze a piece of rubber (bicycle tire piece?) into the gap and get some friction in there. Or sandpaper. > > >PS - Too much attention is paid to big vans/cars. Even the Outback gets poor fuel economy > >to my tastes. You breath what comes out the back end of your vehicle. We've only got so > >much atmosphere and our kids don't want to inherit a polluted desert. If you don't pee > >in your water, don't pollute the air. > > Hmmm, I don't have very much complaint about most modern vehicles. > Current emission regulations on new vehicles are stringent enough... I include CO2 as pollution and that's directly proportional to fuel consumption. Most western countries have committed to lowering CO2 emissions as per international agreement. Canada's nowhere close to meeting the limits. Consider as well that we are currently consuming four barrels of oil for every barrel of oil found in exploration. Canada has only nine years of oil left; the US (I forget) 12-15(?). Then we depend on either finding some that we can develop or being entirely at the mercy of middle eastern oil exporters. How about a $10,000 kayak? Remember that epoxy and resin costs soared in the '70s, causing some problems for boat builders. That stuff comes from oil! Mike *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Oct 10 2000 - 19:04:09 PDT
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