Texas is biggest carbon polluter (Well, Everything is Bigger in Texas, right?)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 1/16/08 | April Castro - ap

[NormsRevenge]

A large pickup truck is driven through downtown Houston Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2008. Texans' fondness for gas-guzzling trucks and the cool summertime relief of air conditioners has helped make the state the top source of greenhouse gases in the nation. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

[Dreagon]

GO TEXAS!!! WOOT!!!

*fires up a BBQ grill in celebration*

[thackney]

Providing refining and other industry for other parts of the nation does tend to raise our own impact. Perhaps we could close the valves at the borders to lower our carbon impact.

[Past Your Eyes]

"Everything's big in Texas"

Except humility.

[xjcsa]

Carbon dioxide is *not* pollution. It’s plant food. The headline should read “Texas is biggest feeder of plants.”

[SouthTexas]

Allright! We won another award!

What do we get?????

[Brett66]

Doesn’t Texas have the greatest number of refineries in the US? Rock on Texas, stfu enviro-cultists.

[CindyDawg]

That looks like the truck my husband just bought me.

[rightinthemiddle]

Amazing, isn’t it?

We inhale air. We keep the oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide.

Plants absorb air. They keep the carbon dioxide and give off oxygen.

Without carbon dioxide, the plants would die. We would die.

Heck, plant a tree. That’ll make everybody feel good.

[NormsRevenge]

and even with all that carbon output,, China’s air is still dirtier..

I like mine medium well to well done , btw..

[thackney]

Yes we do.

Production Capacity of Operable Petroleum Refineries by PAD District and State as of January 1, 2007
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/refinery_capacity_data/historical/2007/table2.pdf

[z3n]

CO2 is a pollutant now?
I don't remember anyone conclusively proving the small fractional percentage changes in CO2 levels in the atmosphere affect surface temperatures in a significant way.
I demand my separation of church and state right not to be harassed by the church of gore nutjobs.

[nhoward14]

What a wimpy truck! A real truck is a dually with a lift kit!

[tx_eggman]

The amount is more than that of California and Pennsylvania — the second- and third-ranking states — combined.

The refining capacity in Texas is 4.7 million barrels per day, Cali and Pennsylvania combined is 2.8 million barrels.

Those coal fired plants in Texas are part of the reason we basically have our own power grid and don't have brown outs.

Whiney libtards ...

Oh, and yes, I drive an extended cab Chevy.

[Question Liberal Authority]

Carbon Dioxide is not pollution.

[larryjohnson]

Good for agriculture

[KenHorse]

With all the don't-mess-with-Texas swagger he can muster, Perry has called Al Gore's mouth the leading source of carbon dioxide.

Hahahahaha... ROFL!

[Democracy In Iraq]

With all the don't-mess-with-Texas swagger he can muster, Perry has called Al Gore's mouth the leading source of carbon dioxide. As for the state's greenhouse gas ranking, Perry's administration makes no apologies.

DAMN I love living here!

[kittymyrib]

There is absolutely nothing to be humble about in Texas. We would make a great country all on our own.

[CindyDawg]

We have a whole town of Humble. What more do they want?