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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: sylvester80 who wrote (184725)4/7/2006 3:34:14 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Please be a bit more reasonable. Forever is a very long time: <every time you push on that gas pedal of your SUV, you are burning FOREVER a resource that took millions of years to be created.>

When Hawk burns some fuel, it comes out the exhaust pipe as carbon dioxide and water. Waiting for that carbon dioxide like a pack of hungry wolves are mega peta trillions of plants of infinite array [slight exaggeration there, since we are exaggerating]. They gulp it down and turn the CO2 into cellulose and other plant products. Which animals, insects and all sorts scoff all day every day. Then other animals, insects and all sorts scoff other animals, insects and all sorts, all day every day. Megatons of them ending up sinking back to the bottom of the ocean. They take their shells with them and those shells contain carbon and oxygen and organic material is tucked inside the shells and bones and stuff too.

The sedimentary layer on the oceanic crust is kilometres thick when it gets subducted. That is a super awesome recycling process. The subducted hydrocarbons are lighter than the magma so they float up and end up back in the atmosphere via volcanoes or back into stratigraphic traps, ready for more drilling [existing wells might even collect them].

Anyway, that long cycle can be interrupted by humans harvesting crops for fuel which feed on the CO2. So the delay from Hawk's exhaust to the next batch of fuel could be as short as a week for some of the CO2 he emits. A week isn't forever in anyone's book. Though a week is considered a long time in politics.

BTW, I notice you haven't told Hawk his feet stink. Ed has pointed out Hawk hasn't yet proven that he doesn't beat his wife [with a small assumption there about marital status, but let's not be picky about details]. Hawk hasn't proved his feet don't stink either. You need some new insults. There is a stream in SI devoted to insults. You might find some good ones there.

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