[at-l] > RELIGIOUS, SENATE LEADERS OPPOSE ANWR DRILLING

[DTimm65344@aol.com (DTimm65344@aol.com)]

When I'm in town, I drive about half of my daily 45 mile commute and bus the 
rest because I have to go that far to get on a bus with any kind of schedule 
that works (they run closer to the house but very infrequently).  Most weeks 
I'm able to arrange to work at home and have a zero or close to it mile day.  
When I am travelling on 
business the milage is all over the map.  In Texas two weeks ago, it was 
about 425 miles in two and a half days (Houston to Beaumont to Austin and 
back to Houston) plus 72 miles to the airport and of course my share of the 
jet fuel.

Doing ones' job and being fossil fuel conscious are sometimes somewhat at 
odds.

And I agree that, while I could theoretically get to either Springer or 
Kahtadin by walking out my door and taking the Mason Dixon trail to Whiskey 
Gap, I still haven't convinced my boss to give me those extra 40 weeks of 
vacation a year it would take.  So I suppose I will be making the 15 hour 
drive down in a couple of weeks to start hiking north (but I do drive an 
Escort and it gets pretty good milage and so far does not belch smoke out the 
tailpipe).

Black&blue

In a message dated 02/10/02 3:48:33 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
icw39@ncfreedom.net writes:


> I used to have 600 yards to work; now it's 2.5 miles; but all those
> brownie points go right out the window when we drive 600 miles to
> Springer, or 1,000 miles to PA, or fly to the Canadien Rockies - just in
> order to hike . . . truly some interesting dilemmas there! :)
> 
> thru-thinker
> 



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