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Energy Department smashes pumpkins for causing climate change
The Washington Times ^
| 10/28/15
| Jennifer Pompi
Posted on 10/28/2015 7:11:50 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
How scary are your jack-o'-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 Department's website, becoming part of the "more than 254 million tons of municipal solid waste (MSW) produced in the United States every year."
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: climatechange; energydepartment; pumpkins; smashes
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they came for the pumpkins and no one said anything
they came the cucumbers next
leaving us all in a pickle
we should have squashed long ago.
what next? no more Xmas tree cutting?
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posted on
10/28/2015 7:13:15 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
Must be why it’s snowing here.
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posted on
10/28/2015 7:14:02 PM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: NormsRevenge
Perhaps ten liberals could hold their breath until stroking out for each pumpkin.
To: NormsRevenge
Wait a goll dern minute!
I thought bacon was the problem!
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posted on
10/28/2015 7:15:14 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(Will no one rid us of this meddlesome president?)
To: headstamp 2
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posted on
10/28/2015 7:16:28 PM PDT
by
dp0622
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
I hope ya got yur pumpkins picked.
Various kinds of pumpkins, out of some 400 on display grown this season, are pictured in this combination photo at Franzlbauer farm in Hintersdorf, Austria, October 27, 2015. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader
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posted on
10/28/2015 7:17:50 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
pumpkins sequester carbon
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posted on
10/28/2015 7:18:20 PM PDT
by
taxcontrol
( The GOPe treats the conservative base like slaves by taking their votes and refuses to pay)
To: Slyfox
Bacon? No.
Trumpkin
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posted on
10/28/2015 7:19:52 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
10/28/2015 7:22:30 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(Will no one rid us of this meddlesome president?)
To: NormsRevenge
Why is a vegetable something to hide?
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posted on
10/28/2015 7:23:14 PM PDT
by
MUDDOG
To: NormsRevenge
"I will warm the Earth and raise the tides until you all die!"
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posted on
10/28/2015 7:23:29 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: NormsRevenge
Just more of the lefts war on enjoyment.
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posted on
10/28/2015 7:26:55 PM PDT
by
VTenigma
(The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
10/28/2015 7:27:04 PM PDT
by
Autonomous User
(During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
To: NormsRevenge
They fart.
Pumpkin farts are terrible.
They just sit in the fields and let it rip...
Greenhouse gases and probably more Sulfer than a VW TDI
I recommend if you have a pumpkin that you immediately smash it
and beat up all the children who believe in the Great Pumpkin.
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posted on
10/28/2015 7:28:31 PM PDT
by
Chickensoup
(We lose our freedoms one surrender at a time)
To: NormsRevenge
pumpkins are not fit to eat anyway ,horrible stuff
To: NormsRevenge
That’ll scare away the trick-or-treaters...
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posted on
10/28/2015 7:38:37 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
(The Revolution...will not be kind.)
To: NormsRevenge
My granddaughter painted a pumpkin a couple weeks ago. It began to prematurely rot. I placed it outside out back on the concrete patio, intending to bury it later. Racoons got to it and left a small section with seeds. That went into the soil to grow for next year. It’s organic, why toss it in the garbage can when you can compost it?
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posted on
10/28/2015 7:39:35 PM PDT
by
roadcat
To: NormsRevenge
Jack-o-lanterns - oh, no, we’re all doooooomed!!!!
To: NormsRevenge
Achtung: you peasants out there; we are watching you, and we see that you are having too much fun with the Halloween thing. Destroying the world with needless fun, hence we have decreed that there will be no more pumpkins on Halloween...
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posted on
10/28/2015 7:46:01 PM PDT
by
B212
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