[davetex]

The lib wackos tried that free bike scam here in Austin a few years ago. As of today,none of the free yellow bikes they bought with our extracted wages are here anymore. They were all stolen or vandalized. This is a stupid "feel good" idea that will fail wherever it is tried. Drill ANWR now.

[VOA]

As of today,none of the free yellow bikes they bought with our extracted wages are
here anymore. They were all stolen or vandalized.

Too bad some investigative reporter doesn't get with some business school and
rational environmentalist types (few, but they exist) and calculate the EXTRA damage
done to the environment by
1.the fuel burned (soot created) in the manufacture of the bikes
2. the extra food consumed by the workers who had to work the extra hours to manufacture them
3. the extra "waste" produced by the workers lunch that would have to be handled
by waste systems
4. the fuel burned to transport the bikes to their destination
5. the fuel expended by police investigating the loss/vandalism to the bikes
6. the trees felled to provide newsprint and paper product for the paperwork
submitted for the orders and the newspapers that heralded the "great leap forward"
that the bike scheme would give to environmental Puritanism.

Oh, and I forgot the "rape of the Earth" because either the metals for the bikes had
to be gouged from the ground...or lots of organic solvent waste was probably
created for the plastic and/or carbon fiber components of the bike.

I think I've found an environmental SuperFund situation!