Guilt-free driving - go vegetarian !
Submitted: Wednesday, Apr 09, 2008 at 11:55
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Member - Mike DID
You can buy CO2 credits - if you are in a CO2 producing industry, you pay for an industry to absorb CO2 e.g. forestry.
Maybe in future if you want to drive a CO2 producing car, you can just go vegetarian to offset the CO2 from the car ?
"The Australian Greenhouse Office says cars produce 8% of greenhouse gas emissions each year. . . . . . while cows and sheep account for 18%."
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Reply By: Member - Mike DID - Wednesday, Apr 09, 2008 at 11:57
Wednesday, Apr 09, 2008 at 11:57
I don't think that fitting a bigger bullbar so you can kill more cows and sheep will be an acceptable alternative !
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Reply By: Michael ( Moss Vale NSW) - Wednesday, Apr 09, 2008 at 12:08
Wednesday, Apr 09, 2008 at 12:08
How about attaching gas cylinders to the rear of cows??!!!Talk about recycling!!
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Follow Up By: Member - Mike DID - Wednesday, Apr 09, 2008 at 12:39
Wednesday, Apr 09, 2008 at 12:39
. . . . and using the methane to power your car ???
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Reply By: Robin Miller - Wednesday, Apr 09, 2008 at 12:47
Wednesday, Apr 09, 2008 at 12:47
Hi Mike
There's a number of those unpalatable facts out there that we like to hide from.
It always assumes me that if one was serious about the enviroment then eating meat is one of the worst things
a person could do.
(It requires some 10 times the energy and water use of the equivalent protien by other means)
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Reply By: Member - Footloose - Wednesday, Apr 09, 2008 at 13:54
Wednesday, Apr 09, 2008 at 13:54
Maybe I'm lucky. I don't eat much meat or poultry. And rarely trim my trees that I planted 20 years ago as a carbon credit :))
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Follow Up By: Member - Footloose - Wednesday, Apr 09, 2008 at 14:00
Wednesday, Apr 09, 2008 at 14:00
BTW I wonder how many trees you have to have to claim a carbon credit? Will it be just one or two more than I have...as usual !
Will we see a cleaner greener Australia? Pot plants sprouting all over the cities?
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Follow Up By: Ray - Wednesday, Apr 09, 2008 at 14:12
Wednesday, Apr 09, 2008 at 14:12
Likewise but I'm on a pension so I hope that Kevin Rudd gives us pensioners a rise so we can afford some meat
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Follow Up By: Member - Footloose - Wednesday, Apr 09, 2008 at 14:18
Wednesday, Apr 09, 2008 at 14:18
Ray, yes what a great idea. We could eat meat instead of dairy products. So our methane emissions would be lowered :))
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Follow Up By: Nick R (VIC) - Wednesday, Apr 09, 2008 at 20:31
Wednesday, Apr 09, 2008 at 20:31
pity the trees you planted 20 years ago will not be accepted in a trading scheme!!!
There will be all manner of schemes come up when emissions trading starts, they will be as common as snake oil salesmen. trees will not be the be all to end all either, they only tie up carbon for the first 30 years then lose carbon at about the same rate they gain it. if you plant them you will be contraced to leave them there 100 years even though you will only get credit for 30.
You think rivers are dry now, just start wholesale treeplanting, then you will see dry rivers.
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Reply By: Michael ( Moss Vale NSW) - Wednesday, Apr 09, 2008 at 14:15
Wednesday, Apr 09, 2008 at 14:15
We will live to see that carbon credits will be the biggest scam in the next decade!! Michael
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Follow Up By: Member - Footloose - Wednesday, Apr 09, 2008 at 14:21
Wednesday, Apr 09, 2008 at 14:21
Biggest? Perhaps along side having to pay for recycling stuff we've already paid far too muvh for in the first place?
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Reply By: Member - Oldplodder (QLD) - Wednesday, Apr 09, 2008 at 16:04
Wednesday, Apr 09, 2008 at 16:04
There is one large fuel company looking at using tallow to extend the crude oil stock going into the refinery.
Supposedly better process than adding biodiesel afterwards.
And you get your own back on the cows, turning that methane producer into an environmentaly friendly product.
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