The Dark Side Of Electronic Efficiency

First, the writer actually uses the term 'airmail'. Airmail?? I didn't think anybody used the word airmail anymore. There hasn't been a separate class for domestic 'airmail' since the Gerald Ford administration; likewise for international airmail since 1995.

So then the writer gets all sanctimonious about driving your car as a dirty carbon-intensive exercise. As if there aren't enough nannies in the world telling everybody else what do to.

But the real 'Alert the media' moment is when the writer discovers that electronic gadgets use electricity. Yeah, really -- actual electricity! They use power in order to operate. Who knew?