A new study in Japan has determined that a couple pounds of beef equals the energy cost of driving for 3 hours while leaving the lights on at home:

www.news.com.au/story/0,23...4-2,00.html

Please consider eliminating commercial meats from your diet. It is probably the single most powerful thing a person can do to create environmental change. Not to do so, while nonetheless having the capacity to, is to express in one's actions a basic indifference to the environmental situation.
posted by:
Brian
SF Bay Area