Vito wrote:

..... Yasee,
electricity comes from dirty coal-burning plants. Most of the energy
from the coal gets lost in the air or water as heat.

Speaking as a person who has made an embarrassing amount of money (that is, it would
be embarassing if I had any shame) working on coal fired combustion control systems,
you are full of baloney.

I suggest starting out with a good high school level physics text, it appears you
tried to skip ahead and missed a lot of the basics.


Reducing emissions of individual cars doesn't help if there are more and
more cars. Ie if you reduce emissions by 50% but have twice as many cars
you're right back where you started from - except that the 2x more
people driving those 2x cars are also farting, taking dumps, heating
their houses, et al.

But we're all still better off than if twice as many cars are putting out unreduced
emissions.

Basically, the idea that intelligent & responsible citizens can be complacent about
the environment is disgusting & destructive. I hope you don't have kids to apologize
to about your attitude.

DSK