heavy thoughts!
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RE: heavy thoughts!
ORIGINAL: hd2006
i live in upstate ny and they already started breaking ***** on loud pipes and non dot approved helmets
cali and ny = two peas in a pod
i live in upstate ny and they already started breaking ***** on loud pipes and non dot approved helmets
cali and ny = two peas in a pod
Road Warrior
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RE: heavy thoughts!
In the grand scheme of all things that emit pollution, motorcycles are insignificant.This "man made global warming" is the biggest socialist/liberal hoax to convince you to buy their snake oil. You're worried about motorcycle emissions when Al Gore's 20,000 sq ft home requires more energy and contributes more to emissions than 10 average homes.
This global warming mantra has become a religion with the environmental wackos. Put down the Kool Aid and realize the earth has been warming and cooling for millions of years. Mars has been warming for quite some time. No SUV's up there. The sun is affecting that planet as well as ours. We contribute about 1% of all carbon dioxide. It won't make a damn bit of difference if this planet is going through a cooling or warming cycle.
And incidentally Time and Newsweek were predicting the next ice age 30 years ago. Scientists were certain the earth was cooling.
This whole thing is bulltucky. A fraud perpetrated to advance the socialist/liberal nutheads way that they think we should be living. John Edwards and his 28,000 sq foot home yapping about saving the planet. Not only are they wrong, they're hipocrites in the worst way.
This global warming mantra has become a religion with the environmental wackos. Put down the Kool Aid and realize the earth has been warming and cooling for millions of years. Mars has been warming for quite some time. No SUV's up there. The sun is affecting that planet as well as ours. We contribute about 1% of all carbon dioxide. It won't make a damn bit of difference if this planet is going through a cooling or warming cycle.
And incidentally Time and Newsweek were predicting the next ice age 30 years ago. Scientists were certain the earth was cooling.
This whole thing is bulltucky. A fraud perpetrated to advance the socialist/liberal nutheads way that they think we should be living. John Edwards and his 28,000 sq foot home yapping about saving the planet. Not only are they wrong, they're hipocrites in the worst way.
Tourer
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RE: heavy thoughts!
ORIGINAL: AZ Rider
when Al Gore's 20,000 sq ft home requires more energy and contributes more to emissions than 10 average homes.
when Al Gore's 20,000 sq ft home requires more energy and contributes more to emissions than 10 average homes.
it looks likea big deal until you do the math.are you against gore or big houses? because he's not consuming more energy per sq. ft. than you are.wonder how big the houses of all the oil tycoons are?
im not defending gore's lavish lifestyle, but do we have to be so dramatic.
Road Master
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RE: heavy thoughts!
OK, first things first. If you open up the intake and exhaust, your engine will become more efficient. If you ride along at the same speed as you used to, your bike will be using less power to suck in fresh air and push out used air, and the same amount of power to move the bike along at the same speed. This is a net reduction in the power consumed to perform the same work. A reduction in power equals a reduction in the amount of fuel needed to generate the power.
Now, take a ride out across the high dessert toward Owens Valley. See all the scruffy greasy looking dull green brush? That is the creosote bush, each of which will produce as much unburned CH compounds in a year as your bike in its entire lifetime. Now, did you notice any cattle along the way? Each will fart more methane and other CH compounds in a year than your bike will produce in its lifetime, even if it lasts to be an antique in some rich persons collection.
Next task, look up the early history of the L.A. basin. When the Spanish explorers and missionaries arrived, the local natives called it the valley of much smoke and very few lived there because they didn't like the atmosphere. Of course, since it hadn't yet been paved over from one end to the other by "land developers", it would be a safe guess to think that a lot of this "smoke" or smog came from natural sources.
OK, one more history assignment. Look up the longrange history of earthly climate. Long before there were people, the global climate varied from very cold to very warm.
Fossilized tropical plants have been found in the Arctic region. There have been glaciers flowing into the Gulf.
If mankind really is contributing to global warming, if they would just shut up the politicians who are spouting all that hot air, it would stop.
Now, take a ride out across the high dessert toward Owens Valley. See all the scruffy greasy looking dull green brush? That is the creosote bush, each of which will produce as much unburned CH compounds in a year as your bike in its entire lifetime. Now, did you notice any cattle along the way? Each will fart more methane and other CH compounds in a year than your bike will produce in its lifetime, even if it lasts to be an antique in some rich persons collection.
Next task, look up the early history of the L.A. basin. When the Spanish explorers and missionaries arrived, the local natives called it the valley of much smoke and very few lived there because they didn't like the atmosphere. Of course, since it hadn't yet been paved over from one end to the other by "land developers", it would be a safe guess to think that a lot of this "smoke" or smog came from natural sources.
OK, one more history assignment. Look up the longrange history of earthly climate. Long before there were people, the global climate varied from very cold to very warm.
Fossilized tropical plants have been found in the Arctic region. There have been glaciers flowing into the Gulf.
If mankind really is contributing to global warming, if they would just shut up the politicians who are spouting all that hot air, it would stop.
Road Master
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From: East NM
RE: heavy thoughts!
I believe the "average house" is closer to 1500 sq ft, except in Beverly Hills, Westwood, etc where they average closer to 5000. As for Al Gore, exhaulted inventor of the internet, he generates more polution by running his mouth than 20 average homes and a couple large herds of cattle.
Road Captain
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RE: heavy thoughts!
ORIGINAL: 98fxd
wow, amazing statistic, i wonder if the average home is, oh i dunno, somehwere around 2000 sq ft?!?
it looks likea big deal until you do the math.are you against gore or big houses? because he's not consuming more energy per sq. ft. than you are.wonder how big the houses of all the oil tycoons are?
im not defending gore's lavish lifestyle, but do we have to be so dramatic.
ORIGINAL: AZ Rider
when Al Gore's 20,000 sq ft home requires more energy and contributes more to emissions than 10 average homes.
when Al Gore's 20,000 sq ft home requires more energy and contributes more to emissions than 10 average homes.
it looks likea big deal until you do the math.are you against gore or big houses? because he's not consuming more energy per sq. ft. than you are.wonder how big the houses of all the oil tycoons are?
im not defending gore's lavish lifestyle, but do we have to be so dramatic.
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RE: heavy thoughts!
wow... I mean WOW! I have never heard so much B.S. in my life! I guess I should give a litte back ground of myself... I have 15 years as a horticulturist under my belt, I spent 10 years working in 2 of biggest national parks in the country as a natural interpriter. And I have a vast knowledge of the geological make up of the western part of our country! I won't even begin tear you a new hole to make room for all the b.s. you spewed on that post!
I hope it is as clean and natural in this make believe bubble that you live in... because the way your going you won't have a planet left to breathe the air in your "valley of smoke"... Wow I can barely hold back by disdane for such ignorance!
later!
I hope it is as clean and natural in this make believe bubble that you live in... because the way your going you won't have a planet left to breathe the air in your "valley of smoke"... Wow I can barely hold back by disdane for such ignorance!
later!
Tourer
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RE: heavy thoughts!
In the grand scheme of all things that emit pollution, motorcycles are insignificant.