Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] E85 and Memorandum 1A (1974 EPA Act)

[Rick <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

It's not that C02 is bad. It's that, like most things, it requires 
balance. The environment is an ecology that doesn't scale down well to 
examining just a very few pieces of it.

Rick

Vern Green wrote:
> its the CO2.
>
> Yeah, we were all taught that plants need CO2 to survive, and we as
> human beings breathe out CO2. It is kind of a simbient relationship
> between plants and animals. One cannot survive without the other.
>
> So one could draw the conclusion that CO2 is needed, and as a by
> product of burning fuel, CO2 would not be harmful, since plants need
> it.
>
> But apparently this is not the case. CO2 has been labeled a Greenhouse
> gas. I posted something here recently that talked about the fact that
> in win country here in California right now, CO2 emissions from cars
> are now lower than Co2 emissions from wineries. Remember CO2 is a
> natural by-product of fermentation. It is what gives beer bubbles.
>
> So apparently, the culprit is no longer Carbon-Monoxide. We have
> reduced those emissions steadily since 1970 to the point that they are
> hardly a problem anymore. The new problem is CO2.


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