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Stormin:
Just been a bit on the news this morning, about people clubbing together and chartering planes to go on holiday.  Comment of the day comes from some well informed enviromentalist.  First he mentioned 4x4's and the usual blurb.  :roll:  Then he said chartering a plane was like putting wings on a Range Rover. :shock:  :lol:

datalas:
So a plane does 25 mpg on a good day, and takes four passengers in ultimate comfort?  Cool

/me saves up for a learjet,  wonder if the AWC accept them :D

muddyweb:
Stupid people....   must resist the temptation to rant.

Points West did a little article about travelling food on the lunchtime news yesterday... I missed the full report last night, but the jist of it was that they went around a "local" market and calculated the number of miles a sunday lunch had travelled...  (e.g.  NZ Lamb : 11,000 miles, African Beans : 7,000 miles, etc.)...  They worked out that with "normal" items, it had travelled over 47,000 miles !

Then they went around the market and bought a 'local' sunday lunch...  same items but with less than 100 miles between them.

Nodoby much makes a fuss about it though, because the supermarkets have marketed us all to damnation and convinced us that we need cheaper food, and that importing it is the best was to get that.

It takes something like 37 Kg of CO2 to transport 1Kg of Lamb from NZ....   I've said it sooo many times before...  that is *not* environmentally friendly.......   Society needs to make a stand.



Hmm... I never was very good at resisting temptation :-)

Stormin:
Sunday lunch NZ lamb and African beans? :shock:  For 58 years I've been mislead.  I thought it was roast beef and yorkshire pudding.  :D

TUFFTEE:
The Meals of the Future will be from Mars and Venus! and they will still say it's all local produce! :?

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