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Originally Posted by Carmine
I watch a lot of CBC in Detroit, so I see all the Canadian evironmental propaganda (shows are better though  ). I had the same thought regarding hydro-power. You got David Suzuki popping up in people's houses, telling them to dump their old (working) fridge in favor of one with an energy-star rating.
So I think... How much pollution dumped into the river/air at the LG plant in China? How much oil burned shipping it 10,000 miles? And this is to save some fractional percentage of electricity in a nation that uses mostly hydo and nuclear...? Not to mention their portrayal of the average Canadian male being a lunkhead who only does it to save money for "more beer".
It's pretty obvious that all governments like to consider their citizens to be dopes, ironically while selling them a load of BS that makes NO environmental sense when you think about it.  |
Back in high school I worked on the team that ran the school website. We used to keep pop in a 1942 GE Fridge in the server room. The school was built in 1965, so the fridge was old even then, and had probably been donated by a teacher. its been running non stop, in the same spot, for over 40 years. Its never needed repair, coolant, or any mechanical parts. The Ecology Club kept hounding us to get rid of it because they believed it was "inefficient" and "an old piece of junk." So, they hooked it up to a watt-hour meter and left it for a week. To make a long story short, a 65 year old fridge bested the EnergyStar requirement by leaps and bounds, and the Junior Environazis ate crow. Two years have passed and its still plugging along.