[Vwdiesel] CNG v. Diesel

[James Hansen]

On a similar note, the Canadian "government" was proposing making zero tillage
farming mandatory some years back. At the time it was still unproven
technology, still is somewhat, and since the stubble wasn't being worked in, it
didn't rot as fast, giving a humus layer on the top surface.  This humus layer
locked carbon up, and would go a big way to fulfilling carbon emission goals a
la Kyoto.  All the farmers were quite concerned, manufacturers overjoyed.
 Currently they (bottom feeding Liberals) are making a $1500.00 five yearly
environmental ass-esment mandatory, providing us with yet another layer of
beaureaucracy.
Hey, why not just start manufacturing coal from pollen we could filter from the
air, and use it to fuel spacecraft that can travel through time?  Yeah, that
way we could bring clean air from the past to the future, diluting our carbon
production, giving a net decrease in the ppm of carbon released per continent,
and everyone could just keep commuting one person per gas guzzling SUV like
always, so that'd be good, right?  Hey then we could set up oil wells in the
past too, and suck even more oil out of the ground so it could be used now for
even BIGGER SUV's, then we could........waitaminit.......Okay, bad idea, have
to go to another planet first, THEN start drilling for oil etc, etc, etc.....
 We could use big bungee cords to launch Loren's garage based meth factory to
the other planet to speed up production, should be doable in say, what, two
three years, tops, any better ideas?  Let's take it to Dubbleya and Honest Jean
cretin and see if they want a piece of the action.  Diesel heads can fix that
Koetoe thing, no trouble.......

-James

On Wednesday, June 26, 2002 5:26 AM, Jonbonbart at aol.com
[SMTP:Jonbonbart at aol.com] wrote:
> In a message dated 06/26/2002 3:07:55 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> gabangs at san.rr.com writes:
>
> << don't let me get started on the Forest management
>  issue(or, rather mis-management!) with the resultant fires in CO and AZ. >>
>
> On an only somewhat related note:
> The current US administration wanted to use the US forests as a CO2 "sink"
> bargaining chip to get around the Kyoto accord. The dubious (Dub-ious?)
> thinking is that since our trees absorb an amount of CO2 that we don't have
> to cut our CO2 production. Now that our "sinks" go up in unregulated emission
> combustion with regularity (Yellowstone, Los Alamos, Denver, Show Low) I hope
> that the other nations that have agreed to abide by the accord allow the US
> to claim the sinks as a credit on the condition that the release of the
> carbon contained in the sinks are counted as CO2 production.
> Yeah, That'll teach us!
> Jonathan
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