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Everything's Bigger In Texas, Including Vehicles, Which Are Leaving A Big Carbon Footprint
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- one small fact about Large Trucks no one knows about,
they are tax writeoffs if you have a farm....... - Reply to this comment
- Not everyone in Texas is a conservative Republican, and not everyone owns a huge desiel monster of a truck. I wish people wouldn''t assume that everyone in Texas is some hillbilly, Wrangler wearin, kkk, truck driving, horse riding, chicken raising, hick cowboy. I dont even own a pair of freaking cowboy boots. And I was born and raised in East Texas.
There is so much more to Texas than that. And if that is the way people choose to live, ignorant to global warming or whatever, than so be it. It''s pretty *** hard to change the mindset of Texans. - Reply to this comment
One part ignorance, one part denial and two parts greed equal a recipe for disaster as the Bush Administration rolls back the Clean Air Act and lets industry build and improve plants without upgrading pollution control equipment. As this disaster unfolds, the spotlight should be on Texas, the state responsible for two-thirds of U.S. petrochemical production. Here, for a long time, the industry has used our air and water as a dumping ground without knowing or wanting to know how much toxic pollution the refineries and plants spew out each day. A weaker Clean Air Act means Texas industry stands to reap financial savings for not installing pollution control devices. Left to live with the illness and health care costs are the communities and families that cannot escape the health effects of the pollution.- Reply to this comment
- "Bush is not from Texas, he was born in Connecticut unfortunatly he does own property here and says he is from here "--Posted by wineprincess
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Well Daddy Bushit lives in Maine but still declares Texas as his home! It does not matter where you are born - it matters where you make your home! Bushits home is in Texas - and he CLAIMS he is Texan.
I heard this a few months ago.
How were Texans Created?
They''re from Oklahoma Cowboys and Mexican Prostitutes.
So there ya go - Texicanhomas. - Reply to this comment
- If any of you would even bother to read a little bit of real science and not the USAToday garbage, you''''d know that carbon dioxide is NOT a pollutant. Sure, carbon is a component of carbon monoxide and sooty, dirty pollutants, but the global warming alarmism has caused everyone to forget about those real problems.
Oh well....
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Posted by CO2Max at 05:04 AM : Jan 17, 2008
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Where did you get your degree? I ask because I teach History at a College here in the South. EVERY professor I''ve talked to in the Science Department disagree''s with you STRONGLY. You shouldn''t be on here pretending to be someone you aren''t. Carbon WILL kill you if enough of it is breathed in, this has been proven beyond a doubt. When you dump MORE carbon into our air creating more of a Green House effect it carries some serious results. We are begining to experience those results, denying them will not make them go away. - Reply to this comment
- If any of you would even bother to read a little bit of real science and not the USAToday garbage, you''d know that carbon dioxide is NOT a pollutant. Sure, carbon is a component of carbon monoxide and sooty, dirty pollutants, but the global warming alarmism has caused everyone to forget about those real problems.
Oh well.... - Reply to this comment
- Get the facts: Carbon is not a pollutant, at least as far as carbon dioxide is concerned. So who cares?
Posted by CO2Max
And your point is? Are you saying that carbon does not result in CO2?
Posted by troutfisher4
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He''s a republican - he has no point - they make things up as the go. - Reply to this comment
- What a disappointing place...it could use its wealth for better purposes, but it is glutted with ultra-conservative unwilling to look at facts. Too many Texans would rather listen to Fox and Limbaugh than face the truth!
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- Here''s another reason for Republicans to be PROUD
President Bush exempted the Navy from an environmental law so it can continue using sonar in its anti-submarine warfare training off the California coast %u2014 a practice critics say is harmful to whales and other marine mammals.
The White House announced Wednesday that Bush had signed the exemption Tuesday while traveling in the Middle East. (snip)
%u201CThe president%u2019s action is an attack on the rule of law,%u201D said Joel Reynolds, director of the Marine Mammal Protection Project at the Natural Resources Defense Council. %u201CBy exempting the Navy from basic safeguards under both federal and state law, the president is flouting the will of Congress, the decision of the California Coastal Commission and a ruling by the federal court.%u201D - Reply to this comment
- Hey M-O-R-O-N-S, it''''s the REFINERIES.
God you people are stupid.
Posted by easeup
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No it''s the OilMen and 99% of them are from Texas.
Your comment is like the Guns Theory - take guns off the street they kill people. DUH! Guns don''t kill people - People Kill people.
Refineries don''t make the pollution the OilMen make the pollution.
Oilman - BUSH - changed the laws to permit Oilmen to Pollute More!
So Maroon Oilmen are the polluters - not refineries. - Reply to this comment
- What else would one expect with George at the helm. They''re probably printing up T-shirts saying "We''re number one"
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- Clear proof that a Texas mindset on "big" includes huge mistakes.
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- Well what the hell do you expect from the place that gave us Chimpy the imbecile.
Texans can live in such a wasteful lifestyle because their mortgages and rents are dirt cheap. Over there a $400,000 house is something to behold. Even with prices down you could not find a tool shed for that price in the S.F. Bay area! - Reply to this comment
"Texas Is No. 1 Carbon Polluter In U.S."
Imagine my surprise...- Reply to this comment
- Texas is truly one of the worst places I had ever been to. What an ugly wasteland it is. Perhaps that''s why they have no respect for the environment. When I was there, I could not believe how many people I saw littering. I was really disappointed that Texas struck me as nothing more than a polluted, trash-laden dump. It''s just too bad everyone else is having to pay for their lack of concern (or is it also a lack of intelligence?), because Texas pollution doesn''t just stay in Texas.
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- Well breathing is overrated anyway.
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- Anyone have the balls to blame this one on Clinton ???
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One part ignorance, one part denial and two parts greed equal a recipe for disaster as the Bush Administration rolls back the Clean Air Act and lets industry build and improve plants without upgrading pollution control equipment. As this disaster unfolds, the spotlight should be on Texas, the state responsible for two-thirds of U.S. petrochemical production. Here, for a long time, the industry has used our air and water as a dumping ground without knowing or wanting to know how much toxic pollution the refineries and plants spew out each day. A weaker Clean Air Act means Texas industry stands to reap financial savings for not installing pollution control devices. Left to live with the illness and health care costs are the communities and families that cannot escape the health effects of the pollution.- Reply to this comment
- Get the facts: Carbon is not a pollutant, at least as far as carbon dioxide is concerned. So who cares?
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- Get the facts: Carbon is not a pollutant, at least as far as carbon dioxide is concerned. So who cares?
- Reply to this comment
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