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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by Green Machine</i> <br /><br />[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by futuremodal</i> <br /><br />Acid rain is a naturally occuring phenomenon. It has always been and always will be. Man's SOX contributions are so miniscule it did not and does not significantly affect the pH of rain one way or another. The forced reductions in SOX is similar to the new****nic standards or the proposed carbon taxes - such actions measurably do nothing to make the world a better place, but they do make some of the "stuck on stupid" crowd feel good about themselves. <br /> <br />Or to put it another way: How much more pollution is being caused by the increase use in energy necessary to make biodiesel and ethanol over the energy used to crack petroleum or to liquify coal? It's one thing if you are using a biofuel feedstock that is a waste product or by-product of some other process, but it's altogether insane to grow crops and/or harvest trees specifically to make biofuels. <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />Right, and like REAGAN said ..."TREES CAUSE POLLUTION" and "Ketchup is A vegetable". What you just said in the first paragraph is one of the most ludicrous statements I 've heard in a long time. Acid Rain IS NOT a naturally occurring phenomenon. Without coal burning power plants there would be no other way for such large amounts of sulfur and sulfur dioxide (or mercury for that matter) to consistently be pumped into the atmosphere. Believe what you want, but you're wrong. I'll take the scientists word over yours, no offense. <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />No, I am right. The whole acid rain thing was one of the biggest overhyped incidences of ecofraud ever to occur. It should interest you that Northeast politicians are still playing the acid rain card 30 years after SOX emissions were limited. Turns out the Northeast still experiences acid rain even with SOX controls. I guess we'll have to shut down every single coal fired power plant in the world before you lefties will admit it was all a hoax. <br /> <br />And BTW, those so-called scientists you reference are actually academic lifers who will spread any sort of eco-hoax if it means getting their grubby hands on our taxpayer dollars. Those same "scientists" ignore all the evidence of solar activity as it relates to earth's climate (but will readily jump on the "solar-caused" bandwagon regarding the warming of the surface of the planet Mars). <br /> <br />It isn't science if the "scientist" in question selectively picks and chooses only those variables that support his/her predicated outcome.
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