Posted on 06/25/2007 10:00:34 AM PDT by mwilli20
Few people risk unpopularity when commenting on something as iconic to economic prosperity as the car. Precisely why, when one of the best-known consultants and writers on the automobile industry seeks to " finish off the car," you have to sit up and take notice.
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"The car is responsible for much of the pollution that is a cause of global warming. We therefore need to reduce our dependence on the automobile — as well as two/three-wheelers, buses and trucks — to address the world's environmental problems. Even if it takes 20 or 30 years for us to reduce our dependence on these products to minimal levels, we need to start thinking about how we approach that now. We can take some steps quickly.
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(Excerpt) Read more at thehindubusinessline.com ...
This, along with Cheryl Crow's nose-wiping removable sleeve and single square wiping, and we can all live in bliss forever.
These people are so supid it hurts!
My husband has been saying for some time that Al Gore wants us all riding bicycles, like the folks in undeveloped countries.
Lawrence Solomon's "The Deniers" (a series of articles on the view of scientists who have been labelled "Global Warming Deniers"):
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I’ll start riding a bike to work when Mr. Gore does - regularly.
I’d like to see all those Hollywood stars, who adore Mr. Gore, ride bikes to their premieres. That would be quite a sight.
I love these “everybody should ride the train” idiots.
Let them take the kids to granma’s house on Sunday, on a train full of drunk yobs. Just once.
They’ll be first in line at the Toyota dealer on Monday.
keepin’ this one...bump
MR GRAEME MAXTON, AUTO SPECIALIST, ECONOMIST, AND AUTHOR
Yeah right, I see him in Road & Track and Automobile all the time.
But then how would Ted Kennedy take us all for a ride? I doubt that any of us can fit on a bicycle with him...even if seats were added.
-Eric
Agreed. I already ride my bicycle to work, and have done so for years. It's a 16-mile round trip. How many carbon offsets has all this bike riding earned me?
Passenger cars are responsible for less than 5% of greenhouse gas emissions. You’d think an automobile expert would know that.
We don’t need to get rid of cars, we need to get rid of left-wing writers that don’t what they are talking about.
We should all drive busses. Big busses. And pick up every hitchhiker we see.
You can have my motorcycle when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
If that was the case, then a full tank of gas for an average sedan would weigh close to a quarter-ton. Guess that the laws of physics (matter can neither be created nor destroyed, etc etc) don't apply to global warming.
Lies are bad enough, but these are STUPID lies. And unfortunately, too many people went to gov't schools, and are too concerned with celebutards like Paris Hilton, to call the liars out.
I'm just awesome!
Maybe they can buy diamond encrusted tandems and let their chauffeurs do most of the pedaling.
Maybe the focus should be on tractor-trailers, moving them to robotic electric trains that operate at slow speeds. That would make a much bigger dent.
But leftists are not interested in solving problems. What they are really up to is taking objects they envy away from others. They cloak their evil intentions behind socially acceptable excuses and false fronts such as pollution and global warming. The really admire Cuba and communist USSR where nobody except a few government elites have anything that could generate feelings of envy.
Oh, I think I’ll be willing to give up my car in 30 years or so, because I’ll be in my mid 80’s. Younger folks may not be so eager, though.
You are forgetting about the input from the oxygen during combustion.
http://www.epa.gov/otaq/climate/420f05001.htm
As loathe as I am to say it — the “inventor of the internet” may not be too far off on that one.
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