Efficient transport vehicle

01 May 2009 0

A friend was trying to convince me to leave my bike (Hero Honda Passion) home and travel by trains. His logic:
(a) It would reduce pollution in the city.
(b) It would save fuel, thus there would be enough left for my grandchildren.

It seems easier to go to college on a bike (10 mins from home) instead of taking an autorickshaw to the station, fight into the crowded train, then get down at Nerul and walk the entire stretch. Besides, I am saving the planet. Here’s how…a rick can accommodate 2-3 people, so those people would use it to get to the station and travel by train instead of taking out their individual bikes, which means that much less CO2 in the air….DUUH!

I also asked my bike to drink Gatorade, but she’s very persistent and won’t give up on Petrol. Seriously now, the next 2 decades will see highly efficient vehicles which don’t depend on petroleum based fuels. Then America’s dream of selling their oil reserves at sky-high prices would be smudged, stamped on, ignored and laughed at. And my grandchildren and great-grandchildren would roam about in a solar powered moped without blaming me for using up all the world’s petrol.