Your Tax dollars at work

["Paul Luevano" <prl@ptc.com>]

So, everyone thats removed the kitty from their car, has been doing the
environment a favor, all this time...


NEW YORK (AP) - Catalytic converters have gone a long way toward cutting
smog
from automobiles in the last two decades, but federal regulators say the
devices are a growing cause of global warming, The New York Times
reported
today. The Environmental Protection Agency says that converters, which
break
down smog-causing nitrogen and oxygen from car exhaust, are rearranging
the
compounds to form nitrous oxide - a potent greenhouse gas. Nitrous
oxide,
known as laughing gas, is more than 300 times more potent than carbon
dioxide,
the most common of the greenhouse gases that trap heat in the Earth's
atmosphere.

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