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- From: falk@peregrine.Sun.COM (Ed Falk)
- Newsgroups: ba.general
- Subject: Re: Phone number to report cars spewing fumes?
- Message-ID: <lmhg7aINN7nd@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: 29 Jan 93 05:30:18 GMT
- References: <C0tEzr.D2B@cup.hp.com> <C0ur2D.t4@ampex.com> <C0x93H.MwF@cup.hp.com>
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- In article <C0x93H.MwF@cup.hp.com> balon@cup.hp.com (Tom Balon) writes:
- >In article <C0ur2D.t4@ampex.com> davel@ampex.com (Dave Larkins) writes:
- >>
- >>Unfortunately, just manufacturing that new car pumps some 1.5 tons of _chlorine_
- >>into the atmosphere, so I think that what you really need is an accurate
- >>analysys of the break-even point between manufacturing related pollution and
- >>operational related pollution before establishing the tax rate.
-
- Yow! That sounds like a lot. Where does this chlorine come from and
- what is it used for?
-
- Also, what form is it released in? Not all forms are equally bad. The
- bad stuff (e.g. CFC's) is that which is stable enough to make it all
- the way to the upper atmosphere before breaking down.
-
- >
- > Yes and did you know bovine flatulence is the leading cause of
- > air pollution in the world ?
-
- I thought it was trees. :-)
-
- -ed falk, sun microsystems
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