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Energy Department smashes pumpkins for causing climate change
Washington Times ^
| October 28, 2015
| Jennifer Pompi
Posted on 10/29/2015 11:37:43 AM PDT by QT3.14
How scary are your jack-oâ-lanterns? Scarier than you think, according to the Energy Department, which claims the holiday squash is responsible for unleashing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
Most of the 1.3 billion pounds of pumpkins produced in the U.S. end up in the trash, says the Energy Departmentâs website, becoming part of the âmore than 254 million tons of municipal solid waste (MSW) produced in the United States every year.â
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: climate; climatechange; dumbkins; fraud; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; govtabuse; pumpkin; weather
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DOE should clear up theior methane they emit first. It is right up there with a NE town that said Christmas lights are banned because their relationship to GW.
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posted on
10/29/2015 11:37:43 AM PDT
by
QT3.14
To: QT3.14
The inmates are truly running the asylum...
To: QT3.14
Is there ANYTHING we can do that won’t harm the delicate little environment? Stop breathing, perhaps?
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posted on
10/29/2015 11:42:35 AM PDT
by
fwdude
(The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
To: QT3.14
How much of the weight of a pumpkin is just water? Is this really all that harmful?
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posted on
10/29/2015 11:43:53 AM PDT
by
Teotwawki
(For a person to get a thing without paying for it, another must pay for it without getting it.)
To: QT3.14
My goats love left over pumpkins. EPA all went to school on the little bus.
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posted on
10/29/2015 11:48:14 AM PDT
by
hadaclueonce
(I thought Ethanol was the devil, now i find it is America is an Oligarchy)
To: QT3.14
This is stupid.
All vegetable matter decays and produces methane. Pumpkins are no different from wheat straw, carrot tops, or flowers. Or whatever would be growing wild if the land wasn’t cultivated.
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posted on
10/29/2015 11:49:43 AM PDT
by
buwaya
To: Teotwawki
Water has, by FAR, the greatest impact on global warming.
Of course by growing the pumpkin it took in CO2. And when it dies it releases it. I suppose we should just grow 80 year-old fir trees and eat their bark.
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posted on
10/29/2015 11:53:26 AM PDT
by
21twelve
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
To: QT3.14
the holiday squash is responsible for unleashing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.Ummmmm.....the pumpkins take CO2 out of the air and move it into a landfill. Sounds like a good way to sequester CO2, if you really believed in Global Warming and if you believed it would be bad.
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posted on
10/29/2015 11:54:22 AM PDT
by
Toddsterpatriot
("Telling the government to lower trade barriers to zero...is government interference" central_va)
To: QT3.14
Hmm, Smashing Pumpkins, sounds like a great name for a band.
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posted on
10/29/2015 11:55:37 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: QT3.14
Back of the napkin math suggests less than 1/4 of 1% of municipal waste is pumpkin.
Fire. Them. All.
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posted on
10/29/2015 11:57:40 AM PDT
by
headsonpikes
(Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
To: All
Will Christmas trees be next?
Anything to denigrate our culture.
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posted on
10/29/2015 11:58:51 AM PDT
by
QT3.14
To: QT3.14
They want to eliminate whatever brings joy to children.
We are carving pumpkins right now...art class for homeschoolers :-)
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posted on
10/29/2015 12:10:18 PM PDT
by
NorthstarMom
(God says debt is a curse and children are a blessing, yet we apply for loans and prevent pregnancy.)
To: QT3.14
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posted on
10/29/2015 12:10:31 PM PDT
by
ColdOne
(I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 HillaryForPrison2016)
To: QT3.14
To: fwdude
“Is there ANYTHING we can do that wonât harm the delicate little environment? Stop breathing, perhaps?”
The only thing that will end manmade global warming is to get rid of humans.
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posted on
10/29/2015 12:24:27 PM PDT
by
Brooklyn Attitude
(Things are only going to get worse.)
To: buwaya
YEs, but pumpkin squash are wasted in their view, being used for decoration rather than for consumption.
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posted on
10/29/2015 12:46:49 PM PDT
by
ichabod1
(Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .)
To: QT3.14
Are you kidding me? Christmas trees are the WORST!
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posted on
10/29/2015 12:47:47 PM PDT
by
ichabod1
(Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .)
To: Carpe Cerevisi
Good grief. Funny to see that one guy with hair.
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posted on
10/29/2015 12:48:28 PM PDT
by
ColdOne
(I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 HillaryForPrison2016)
To: Brooklyn Attitude
About 85% of you useless eaters has gots to go!
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posted on
10/29/2015 12:48:35 PM PDT
by
ichabod1
(Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .)
To: QT3.14; al baby; Albion Wilde; Allegra; BufordP; EveningStar; Gefn; GunsareOK; JRios1968; ...
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posted on
10/29/2015 12:56:33 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
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