guionM

Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't all living animals expell the stuff, as well?

And you all thought our regulators out here in California were retards.



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Meccadeth

Why would it be a bad thing if they tried to regulate Carbon Dioxide?

routesixtysixer

If they eliminated ALL man-made CO2 emissions, it would have ZERO effect on the environment. Man-made CO2 emissions are literal drop in the bucket. One volcano eruption puts more CO2 into the atmosphere than man has been responsible for since the industrial revolution began!

cmc

Morons. As usual, paid off by lobbyists. The problem is that as the area of wild vegetation decreases (and quite rapidly, I might add), less carbon dioxide is processed into oxygen.

kizz

I think you're on to something there!

as for the volcano comparison: Every time I hear that argument, it seems to get exaggerated out of proportion just slightly, until it's grown into having no credibility. First it was "all cars in a decade" then it was "all cars this century" then "all human activity this century" then "all human activity since the industrial revolution" .. what next? The fact is that it depends on what eruption you're talking about. Mount Saint Helens in 1980? Probably. The hundreds of small eruptions going on every day? Nope. I think cmc is on to something that gets overlooked all the time. CO2 from human activity I don't think s the problem. Human expansion is the problem. As a whole, we're consciously killing off natural combatants of CO2 at an accelerated pace, for the sake of bigger cities, bigger suburbs, more cities, more land usage for crops, etc. It's getting no better, it's only getting worse faster and faster. The "bear in my back yard" stories that were once unheard of are getting more common, since we're expanding into wilderness. "Don't save it; pave it" and the exponential population boom are the two things that will destroy the environment eventually, little by little.

Z28x

Would a little global warming be a bad thing, check out the weather in the northeast this past month

Plants need CO2 to live so I in theory could argue that CO2 is good for the environment

danno02SS

It's was 91 deg today in LA. That's even uncomfortable for summertime

Richard Cabeza

I live in Mass, so I knew they were just as retarded if not more so than the west coast ones. They even passed a law to make it illegal to put an aftermarket exhaust on anything. They're trying to make New England the east coast version of California....actually, they already have.

kizz

Bubb Rubb ain't tryin to hear 'dat. The whistles go wooo wooooot!

Z28x

Send some of that weather this way , yesterday was the first day since Jan 13th that it got above 32

it's been averaging about -3 at night

JEDCamino

I guess we should all start holding our breath most of the time to cut down on Carbon Dioxide? In the many, many years that carbon dioxide producing creatures have lived on this earth, I'm sure they have emitted millions of times more that every automobile that has ever existed combined.

guionM

That's pretty incredible.

Out here in California, outside of removing a functional Catalytic Converter (which is a Federal Regulation), we can pretty much put on any downstream exhaust system we want, and we can install any headers that have been approved by the Air Resources Board.

Sounds like Mass regulators are far worse than California, under the guise of trying to be like Cali.

cmc

I have no trouble running a catalyst. They hardly even restrict exhaust flow at all (especially aftermarket units). I believe that all street cars (and anything with a streetable engine) should run them, really... they just need to be made cheaper.

JEDCamino

We just recently put a high flow catalytic converter on my brother's truck. It's the first time it has legitimately passed emissions (no denatured alchohol). And it doesn't seem to effect performance at all.