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Lancer
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Oregon Coast, USA! or Bohol, Philippines!
Apr 1999
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Must be industry out there somewhere... Or is it consumption? Should we stop heating our houses? Don't europeans heat their houses? Drive cars?
Why is the US picked on?
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mrmitchell
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consumptioni
cars, heaters, etc.
Europeans do it too. But they have more regulations on it AFAIK
There still is SOME industry left. Particularly that which ignores enough laws to continue making a profit.
We've exported a lot of automobiles, steel, clothing, that kind of thing, but we are by no means free of industry.
Even if we were, there's still contaminated sites of former industry
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Drogue
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Omnipresent conscience
Oct 2002
time: 05:34
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Because the US uses far more oil.
You're cars are far more wasteful than ours, you drive more, you use more power, you're industry and power stations burn more oil and coal, use worse forms of coal (lauxite (sp?)), have far far fewer environmental controls, etc.
Using a car/oil in Europe is far more expensive, since we have high taxes for it. For instance a gallon of petrol costs about £3.60 ($6) in the UK.
Bottom line, the US contibutes more pollution than any other nation, in total and per person (IIRC). Your pollution affects us, yet while we reduce our pollution, in order to reduce the effect on the entire world, you don't. That is why you're blamed for it.
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CharlesBHoff
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el paso texas
May 2002
time: 05:34
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Gargo Dump are fairly new in man history. In the ancient and medival world it than metal plow broke drown it was either repair or the metal reused to make something also it took alot of effect to mine ore and refine then include backbreaking labor and time.
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quote:
Originally posted by Whoha
we have more total reactors when you factor in all the ships we have though |
However they don't add to the civilian consumption.
France has 56 working nuclear plants, generating 76% of her electricity.
It is also the second least polluting industrialized nation after Switzerland, according to the OECD.
I think there is definately a very important correlation between low CO2 emissions and high dependence on Nuclear Power.
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CharlesBHoff
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el paso texas
May 2002
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quote:
Originally posted by Urban Ranger
The problem with nuclear reactors is the waste. That stuff is going to be hot for a very long time. |
Depenceing on the nautal of the fuel the half life can be from 250,000 years to 4 billion years year. It I have 100 ton of U-238, 4 billion year from now I will have 50 tons of U-238.
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Lancer
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Oregon Coast, USA! or Bohol, Philippines!
Apr 1999
time: 05:34
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Regulating the auto indusrty would be a good thing then. Get the SUVs off the road and everyone into smaller cars, for starters. If regulations were put in place now, people would certainly nurse their gas guzzlers but in maybe 15 or 20 years most would be gone.
I have a Ford Windstar, but I bought it mostly to protect the wife in any accident w/ an SUV or truck. We really don't need anything that big... If everyone downsized it would be alot safer to drive a small car.
We need to get the rail system fixed too, and regulate away the 18 wheeler. That would cut polution.
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Comrade Tassadar
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DFEATH O COMMIES!!11!#$!!11
BUSH$4EVA!!!11
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