About dem hurricanes..
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- garett_west0
So Garett, if you are this ecolkogical dynamo, what is your beef with the rest of us?
You are the only one who keeps harping on cars and SUV's. I mentioned coal plants earlier and heard fucking crickets from your corner.
Why pick one thing out of arguments?
mrdobolina
(Aug 10 06, 10:16)Are you kidding me? For weeks I've been harping on you guys for dogging the SUV drivers of America.
I must have posted 4 times that auto emissions only account for 20% of the air polluting sources.
I must have posted at least 3 times General Electric's Evolution, the world's most advanced diesel-electric locomotive. The locomotives represent a breakthrough in fuel efficiency and pollution reduction, the later important because trains traditionally have been exempt from environmental controls. The 4,400-horsepower Evolution uses five percent less fuel than other locomotives of the same power -- which means a lot since a typical locomotive burns 1,000 gallons of diesel per day -- and emits 40 percent less pollution. General Electric is at work on a hybrid locomotive that would achieve further reduction in emissions and fuel use.
And that the Evolution is selling like crazy in part because the George W. Bush administration imposed the first national emissions standards on locomotives; also on construction equipment, off-road vehicles, marine engines and other previously unregulated sources of diesel exhaust. Bush further required that diesel fuel itself be "reformulated" to reduce inherent pollution content. Did you know that President Bush ordered a major strengthening of clean-air law? Of course you didn't, since the mainstream media refuse to report this.
Public-health studies have linked diesel exhaust to asthma. Given that a major federal initiative is now underway to reduce diesel emissions, future asthma rates should decline. And how many companies and businesses globaly use machines that run on diesel fuel, thus... the 40% on the pollution coming from industry.
You guys my friend, tote the SUV arguement, I mearly am setting you straight.