[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!

[logician2u]

Good as far as you went, but I think we should add the fuel (i.e., food) consumed by the bicyclists in their pursuit of nirvana.

Bikes take energy to move, just as all vehicles do. The calories expended in riding have to be taken in as food, which then adds to all the other parts of the pollution cycle you've outlined.

And then there's the emissions of greenhouse gas . .

(But we don't need to go to that detail.)

[budwiesest]

that heralded the "great leap forward"

Cousin to "A Leap of Faith"? How about "Leaping from the Pan into the Fire"? Or "The Great Society".
Each represents a 'leap' from where we were at some point in time (market, society, culture) toward some unkown but no doubt desirable destination. Stupid ideas (enviro-whacko, gungrabbers, etc.) from the Left shall now be kept in my "Great Leaps Forward" folder. Thanks VOA.