Nice try, but a ton of beef costs 30-100g CO2 to move 1 km by train, while that same ton costs 34.6 kg CO2/kg beef = 31,400,000g CO2 to produce. Even if the cows are raised 1,000 km from where the meat is eaten, the shipping costs of food in CO2 are still just a rounding error compared to the production costs.
I used to be all in favor of the local food movement until I realized this. Now I'm like "meh." So it's good to try to keep things in perspective.
This is why we need a revenue-neutral carbon tax. So for example if the tax is $1 per gallon of gasoline and the average person uses 500 gallons in a year, then everyone would receive the same $125 check every 3 months. The $1 per gallon tax would discourage people from burning gasoline and the $125 check would be a windfall for people who live paycheck to paycheck.
Anyway, we can stop talking about it, because the proposed actions always involve diminishing everyone's lives...
That reminds me of those people who rollover their payday loans into new payday loans because every dollar they put into paying down the loan is a dollar they can't spend on other stuff. In other words, breaking out of they payday loan cycle requires diminishing their lives in the short term.
People who complain about global warming mitigations diminishing their lives are trying to justify the equivalent of locking us all into massive loans which our children and grandchildren will inherit. In the USA, the American Dream is dying.
Journalists that I know personally try very hard to have accurate facts and to not let their bias taint their work.
That's why nobody pays much attention to them.
While not all journalists are like that I believe most try to be.
That's why most journalists aren't famous.
Editors and publications do have to care more about the bottom line and sadly getting the news out quicklysensationalism is more important then accuracy.
Or join an auto club and drive a different car every day.
There was a time when most people could buy a gallon of milk without carrying any government ID. Since then we've reconfigured our cities around the car so we have to drive everywhere and always be ready to show our driver licenses, all in the name of freedom. Ironic, isn't it?
It's like building a coal plant and the day after it's built the government suddenly decides to double the coal excise tax, decimating your profit projections. Wouldn't you seek some kind of compensation?
...then he should get the states to increase their diesel taxes and weight-mile taxes on trucks. But this would harm the oil industry which pays big money to politicians and so it will never happen.
This is a good step in the direction of legalizing climate bets. If those who deny climate change were willing to place money on global temperatures stabilizing or falling, the rest of us could retire early!
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I wouldn't want to put so many miles on my main vehicle anyway. I'd rather rent a car for that trip. Except 800 miles in a day is excessive anyway.
Nice try, but a ton of beef costs 30-100g CO2 to move 1 km by train, while that same ton costs 34.6 kg CO2/kg beef = 31,400,000g CO2 to produce. Even if the cows are raised 1,000 km from where the meat is eaten, the shipping costs of food in CO2 are still just a rounding error compared to the production costs.
I used to be all in favor of the local food movement until I realized this. Now I'm like "meh." So it's good to try to keep things in perspective.
This is why we need a revenue-neutral carbon tax. So for example if the tax is $1 per gallon of gasoline and the average person uses 500 gallons in a year, then everyone would receive the same $125 check every 3 months. The $1 per gallon tax would discourage people from burning gasoline and the $125 check would be a windfall for people who live paycheck to paycheck.
That reminds me of those people who rollover their payday loans into new payday loans because every dollar they put into paying down the loan is a dollar they can't spend on other stuff. In other words, breaking out of they payday loan cycle requires diminishing their lives in the short term.
People who complain about global warming mitigations diminishing their lives are trying to justify the equivalent of locking us all into massive loans which our children and grandchildren will inherit. In the USA, the American Dream is dying.
This is the best comment I've seen on Slashdot in a LONG time.
That's why nobody pays much attention to them.
That's why most journalists aren't famous.
FTFY.
Where are you reading that?
Then you use the "training" charge code to order new equipment because you've just been educated to demand open source hardware from now on!
Your link reads like somebody trying to sell you something. Oh wait, they are!
If something is illegal, does that automatically make it immoral?
Don't operate deadly machinery in public.
Or join an auto club and drive a different car every day.
There was a time when most people could buy a gallon of milk without carrying any government ID. Since then we've reconfigured our cities around the car so we have to drive everywhere and always be ready to show our driver licenses, all in the name of freedom. Ironic, isn't it?
It's like building a coal plant and the day after it's built the government suddenly decides to double the coal excise tax, decimating your profit projections. Wouldn't you seek some kind of compensation?
...then he should get the states to increase their diesel taxes and weight-mile taxes on trucks. But this would harm the oil industry which pays big money to politicians and so it will never happen.
Is Latvia close enough?
Is it legal to advertise more in minority communities in order to expand the pool of minority applicants?
Or they could stop transferring wealth from poor neighborhoods to wealthy ones. Racist policies create racist results.
If you're correct that zoning laws never prevent developers from building something they want to build, then why do we need zoning laws at all?
That's no excuse to prevent them from doing so.
Indeed, they will silence the non-PC posts and think they've silenced the trolls, all the trolls, and nobody but the trolls.
You should try to drop the phone face down so the back doesn't shatter.
I wish you hadn't posted as AC because what you wrote needs more exposure and I have no mod points.
Stay classy, Slashdot!
This is a good step in the direction of legalizing climate bets. If those who deny climate change were willing to place money on global temperatures stabilizing or falling, the rest of us could retire early!
Addicts get awfully cranky whenever you try to cure them of their addiction!
What would break that wasn't just a hack in the first place?