Re: oil, greens, recycling, and poly-ticks.

["Raymond D. Mereniuk" <Raymond@fbn.bc.ca>]

Ray Arachelian <sunder@brainlink.com> wrote

> Just out of curiosity what are prices around where you guys live?

In the Vancouver BC area they are trying to raise the price and the 
new standard is CAN$0.549 per litre, or US$1.37 per US gallon.  
Not difficult to find CAN$0.454/l or US$1.14/g.  For the last few 
weeks you could find CAN$0.399/l or US$1.00/g.  I often go to 
Blaine WA and the lowest available there is US$1.059.  Gas in 
Seattle WA is at least US$1.199.

> Ditto for militant vegans... it's one thing to do it for health reasons, it's
> another to be an asshole about killing fuzzy animals.. hey veggies are alive
> too.  If you're gonna murder veggies to live, (whose growth results in the
> death of millions of insects who would devour the veggies if not for
> insecticides) you may as well quit being a hypocrite and murder animals too...
> 
> The only way for a consciencious objecting vegan to not be a hypocrite is to
> simply stop eating and drinking and breathing... after all, every time he does
> so, he inhales, ingests, or otherwise murders billions of microbes... :)

Have you ever tried using this argument on a Vegetarian?  I have 
and they squirm in all directions attempting to rationalize their 
irrational position.  Basically some living things are more living than 
others.  Sort of reminds you of some politicians where it is obvious 
from their actions that some people are more equal than other 
people.





Virtually

Raymond D. Mereniuk
Raymond@fbn.bc.ca