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From: Conor on 5 Dec 2009 18:31 In article <0c2f34b5-12b2-4ab8-84aa-756320ec18a5 @v19g2000vbk.googlegroups.com>, MasonS(a)BP.com says... > Sadly though the world's current oil consumption is 86 million barrels > *a day", so your 2.5 billion barrels cited above will only last around > a *month* not 79 years. > The entire known world oil reserves will last about 36 years at > *current* consumption levels. Err, it was the global definition of a billon which is a million million, not the UK definition. -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.
From: Conor on 5 Dec 2009 18:32 In article <7nvj9mF3nlsoaU1(a)mid.individual.net>, johnwright says... > > Given todays controversy over > winter fuel payments Why should that be increased when prices are falling? -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.
From: Conor on 5 Dec 2009 18:35 In article <e9a3918d-0392-4122-8b92-5b74d6728050 @o23g2000vbi.googlegroups.com>, MasonS(a)BP.com says... > The food a cyclist eats contains *the same* carbon atoms going round > and round. > The plant absorbs it, I eat it, breathe it out and the plant takes it > in again. > > The fuel a car burns is adding *new* carbon to the atmosphere that had > been locked away for millennia. > > Please do not confuse the two. And you of course grow all your own food using equipment manufactured by yourself which you created from raw materials you got by yourself using no manufactured tools? Or did you get your food from the shop where it was delivered by truck from a warehouse supplied by trucks from the manufacturers who use materials supplied by trucks and also electricity generated from powerstations? -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.
From: Tony Dragon on 5 Dec 2009 18:34 MasonS(a)BP.com wrote: > On 5 Dec, 18:43, %ste...(a)malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote: >> Mas...(a)BP.com <Mas...(a)BP.com> wrote: >>> Look at the advert at the bottom right of this page. >>> How much would the driver of this car pay? >>> Should he be allowed on the roads having paid no VED? >>> http://www.swldxer.co.uk/zmotormouth.jpg >> That's the car that emits less CO2 than the equivalent number of >> cyclists you mean? The car that needs a VED document which requires >> proof that the vehicle was registered, insured and has passed an annual >> safety inspection if > three years old? >> >> Just checking. > > The CO2 which that car emits comes from *oil* which is non renewable. > > The CO2 that cyclists breathe out comes from *food*, a renewable > resource. > > Oh and car drivers breathe as well inside their vehicles. > > Not all CO2 is the same. > > Next you will be asking for tax discs for horses based on the fact > that they breathe more heavily than a cyclist. > -- > Simon Mason > How many sorts of 'ozone' do you think there are? -- Tony Dragon
From: The Medway Handyman on 5 Dec 2009 19:14
MasonS(a)BP.com wrote: > On 5 Dec, 18:43, %ste...(a)malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote: >> Mas...(a)BP.com <Mas...(a)BP.com> wrote: >>> Look at the advert at the bottom right of this page. >>> How much would the driver of this car pay? >>> Should he be allowed on the roads having paid no VED? >> >>> http://www.swldxer.co.uk/zmotormouth.jpg >> >> That's the car that emits less CO2 than the equivalent number of >> cyclists you mean? The car that needs a VED document which requires >> proof that the vehicle was registered, insured and has passed an >> annual safety inspection if > three years old? >> >> Just checking. > > The CO2 which that car emits comes from *oil* which is non renewable. > > The CO2 that cyclists breathe out comes from *food*, a renewable > resource. > > Oh and car drivers breathe as well inside their vehicles. Just how pathetic an argument are you prepared to use to support your cause? > > Not all CO2 is the same. > > Next you will be asking for tax discs for horses based on the fact > that they breathe more heavily than a cyclist. Horses don't, by & large, clog up traffic. Horse riders don't have horse lanes, advanced horse areas, ride on the pavement, ride the wrong way up one way streets etc. Typical knob head cyclist argument. -- Dave - The Tax Paying Motorist |