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To: beaversmom
Are they affiliated with these folks?
45 posted on 09/02/2006 9:43:58 PM PDT by Jaded (does it really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: Jaded
Freegans recognize the disastrous social and ecological impacts of the automobile. We all know that automobiles cause pollution created from the burning of petroleum but we usually dont think of the other destruction factors like forests being eliminated from road building in wilderness areas and collision deaths of humans and wildlife. As well, the massive oil use today creates the economic impetus for slaughter in Iraq and all over the world. Therefore, freegans choose not to use cars for the most part. Rather, we use other methods of transportation including trainhopping, hitchhiking, walking, skating, and biking. Hitchhiking fills up room in a car that would have been unused otherwise and therefore it does not add to the overall consumption of cars and gasoline.

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Wha a bunch of bums.

118 posted on 09/03/2006 12:30:08 AM PDT by x_plus_one (No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American Public)
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