Another sad day in Mexico

[Paul Cherubini]

MexicoDoug at aol.com wrote:

> In the last 10 years my own butterflying
> habitats a 1000 miles north of the article's focus, in the NE portion
> of the country, have dwindled, and it isn't much fun to go to an
> alarming number of them as unchecked development, where a little bribe
> greases the permit wheel as if anyone actually needed to bother...

On the other hand, the Mexican's are better environmentalists than
we are in the USA in some ways.  For example, Mexico doesn't pour
hundreds of millions of dollars into butterfly habitat destroying roadside 
mowing for beautification and safety purposes like we do: 
http://www.saber.net/~monarch/mow.jpg.  The so called 'environmentally
sensitive' liberal democrats of the USA enthusiastically voted to fund
this roadside mowing just as much as the republicans if not more so.

Mexico doesn't mandate several hundred pounds worth
of fuel economy degrading heavy bumpers, air bags, and structural 
reinforcements in its automobiles like we do to make vehicles more 
crashworthy. This is another case where the so called 'environmentally 
sensitive' liberal democrats of the USA voted for this gasoline wasting 
safety equipment just as much as the republicans if not more so.

Mexico doesn't have car pool lanes on its freeways which also
waste gasoline because they cause traffic slowdowns and 
grid lock for the majority of cars on the freeway. Here again the
the 'environmentally sensitive' liberal democrats of the USA 
were the ones who voted for gasoline wasting car pool lanes.

The average home and car in Mexico is substantially smaller than 
in the USA.  In the USA the average size of new homes and cars keeps 
getting bigger and bigger and the streets wider and wider. The
the 'environmentally sensitive' liberal democrats of the USA 
are buying these butterfly habitat destroying larger and larger homes 
and cars just like the republicans.

Public transportation in Mexico is much better developed than
in the USA.  

Paul Cherubini
El Dorado, Calif.








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