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Date Posted: 14:58:18 09/20/08 Sat
Author: Mark D
Subject: Re: Another way of looking at it.
In reply to: Owen 's message, "Re: Another way of looking at it." on 12:12:11 09/20/08 Sat

****"You could not produce enough rock via human energy (even with an army of slaves) to do even the most minimal maintenance on our roads."

Have you ever visited the pyramids? Walked on a Roman road in England? ****

First off while both did not use petroleum, I don't think either endeavor was 100% human, and that was the original debate. But lets pretend they both were. As a comparison the great pyramid represents a total mass of 5.9 million tons. We sell roughly 500,000 tons of rock for loose rock road maintenance each year alone (we crush 2.4 million tons, all used in construction by the way). We only sell within our county and we are not the only quarries within the county (thus not the only ones selling). Our county is mostly rural with a city of 99,000 people in it. So I suspect there are MANY MANY other counties in the U.S. that make our sales look pretty normal, if not small. In our small county we move enough maintenance rock to to build a great pyramid every 5 years to a decade(depending on how much our competition is selling). That's just one small midwest county. Hrmm.... Oh and It's estimated that a crew of 200,000 people built the great pyramid. More than our entire counties population... Guess we would have to import a few slaves to maintain just our roads....


Rome had an impressive road system. I'm told it had signs even, and that parts of it are even still standing and in use. Wow! We have a highway called I-70. It runs from the east coast to the west coast. You might be able to scratch up enough slave labor to maintain that road, or heck even construct it! Yeah sure. Too bad there are a bunch of other roads in our nation... Hate to break it to ya pal, but we have more roads than the romans did. Our infrastructure is vastly larger and more complicated than any other before it.

I have no problem standing by the original statement " You could not produce enough rock via human energy (even with an army of slaves) to do even the most minimal maintenance on OUR ROADS." Either you have no idea of the magnitude of human effort involved in building the pyramids or the Roman roads, or you have no clue as to how vast our system of roads is....

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