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You also exhale oxygen. CO2 is a pollutant because it makes the air more dense, not because it is toxic.
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Dictionary definition for "pollutant": any substance, as certain chemicals or waste products, that renders the air, soil, water, or other natural resource harmful or unsuitable for a specific purpose. I don't see how "denser air" is harmful or unsuitable for a specific purpose Besides, plants need to live too, CO2 is good for them...
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http://www.wunderground.com/education/cei.asp "The definition of pollution in Webster's dictionary is "to make physically impure or unclean: Befoul, dirty." By that definition, carbon dioxide is not pollution. However, Webster's also has the definition: "to contaminate (an environment) esp. with man-made waste." Carbon dioxide is a waste gas produced by fossil fuel combustion, so can be classified as man-made waste." This article continues to go on to talk about the negative effects CO2 has on the oceans. This is also a nice article: http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ...515830975.html |
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What about them? Non sequitur much?
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09-04-2010, 11:24 PM | #61 |
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Well yes I do.....but not in this case!
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What about shale oil? The US has more oil stores this way then 2-3 OPECs. Why can't we just use it while we wean off of fossil fuels? This has been known since the early 1990's.
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I read a very interesting article a few years back about what it takes for oil to make it from Kuwait into my gas tank. And the guy was saying the same thing, not only is desert oil very light, which makes it good quality (IIRC), but it also comes out at the right pressure, without any help. It's pretty much like this: stick a pipe in the ground with a tap at the upper end and open the tap...
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09-07-2010, 07:33 PM | #65 |
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Because this is about making as much profit as possible. Both political parties are controlled by big oil and they won't do anything to change the price of oil. You could be paying a lot less for gas if it weren't political influence of the democrats and republicans.
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Except promoting renewable energy policies, not that we do it every well.
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Makes me laugh... The US pays less for fuel than just about any country on the planet! If the US was serious about conservation, they would charge the same for fuel as they do in the UK, or even Canada. (Which kind of blows Big Dave's theory about cheaper fuel; sorry Dave) Pay $8 a gallon, then watch conservation in action!
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The reason gas is higher in Canada & Britain has more to do with taxes than anyting else. Thank your socialist government for that one!
Oil would have to be over $200/barrel for it to hit $8/gallon. While I understand your thinking, if the US taxed gas to the extent that other countries do then our economy would fall apart and one heck of a world wide recession would happen.....one vastly worse than what we're experiencing right now. Nobody wants that, so while raising gas prices would certainly reduce consumption it would have such a bad effect on the economy that the total cost to society would be too high. In effect, it is cheaper and better in the long run not to conserve oil/gas. |
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And where would the tax money go if this was the case? To strengthen the economy? create industry? infrastructure? Nope to the corporate pluto/crimeocacy of wealth and privelage...
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