[Peakoil] "Ten Bucks a Litre" - Dick Smith Doco

[Keith]

Neither we nor Dick himself should make too much of the apparent hypocrisy of his energy use. If Dick flies his helicopter on a photography expedition to track for public educational purposes degrading landscapes and uses thousands of litres of fuel in the process, he could be doing less net harm than me driving a kilometre to the shops for a litre of bottled water. 

I noticed a couple of months ago, Mark Lynas had broken a decade-long personal resolution not to travel by air. He flew to the us for a conference on climate change. Of course, symbolically, this can be painted by critics as hypocritical, but as it's symbolic, it can also be depicted in other ways. 
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Keith Thomas
myrmecia at gmail.com
+44 74 2929 4146
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On 28/07/2013, at 2:26 AM, Alex Pollard wrote:

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Subject: [roeoz] "Ten Bucks a Litre" - Dick Smith Doco
From:    "Ilan G" <ilgo_au at yahoo.com.au>
Date:    Sun, July 28, 2013 10:20
To:      roeoz at yahoogroups.com
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> By the end of this provocative film, Dick has changed many of his
> preconceptions about
> energy, and had even abandoned his gas guzzler for an electric car. Is
> he prepared to give up
> his helicopter next? Watch and find out.