"Longer road to breakeven; Prius hybrid owners have no regrets, even as gas prices plummet" by Erin Ailworth, Globe Staff | December 31, 2008
.... Some hybrid owners are comforting themselves with their vehicles' other street cred: The cars get about 50 miles per gallon, helping to reduce their drivers' carbon footprints....
You know, when the richers STOP JETTING and LIMOING and NASCAR is SHUT DOWN, then I'll listen.
Otherwise, step in this "carbon footprint": PFFFFFFFFFFFTTTTTTT!!!!!
Meg Wilcox, a spokeswoman for Ceres, a green investment coalition based in Boston:
"I feel good that I'm doing what I can to reduce my carbon footprint."
How about calling for a HALT to the OVER-POLLUTING WAR MACHINE, huh?
Meanwhile, CONTRADICTORY EVIDENCE piles up all around the fart-mist fanatics!
"Spokane buried by record Dec. snows
SPOKANE, Wash. - Spokane residents were trying to dig out yesterday after a record-breaking month of snow collapsed roofs and clogged streets. Bismarck, N.D., also set a snowfall record....
And it is COMING DOWN HERE, too!!!
Spokane set a monthly record for snowfall, at 59.7 inches, after 8.3 inches was recorded in the 24-hour period ending at 4 p.m. Monday, said National Weather Service meteorologist Ellie Kelch. That's more snow than the area receives in a typical winter.
And they got it in ONE MONTH, huh?
Nevertheless, the agenda is flogged:
"Air New Zealand test flies biofuel
Air New Zealand tested jet fuel made from the jatropha plant yesterday as the airline searches for an affordable and environmentally friendly alternative to crude oil.
For two hours, pilots tested the oil, in a 50-50 blend with conventional jet fuel in one of the four Rolls-Royce engines powering a Boeing 747-400 aircraft - the first test flight by a commercial airline using jatropha oil.
Rob Fyfe, Air New Zealand's chief executive, called the flight a milestone in commercial aviation.
The project has been 18 months in the works. Unlike other biofuel crops such as soybeans and maize, jatropha needs little water or fertilizer and can be grown almost anywhere - even in infertile soil.
So then WHY are the globalist sickies running this show using FOOD like CORN?
Why does the EndGame scenario suddenly pop into my head?
Each seed produces 30 to 40 percent of its mass in oil, meaning it has higher yield per acre than many other plant oils, specialists said. The results of the flight - and two others planned by airlines in the United States and Japan in January - will be closely watched by an industry trying to shift toward renewable, low-emissions fuels.
A sharp rise in crude oil prices last summer offers a strong incentive for the industry to reduce its exposure to volatile oil prices. But pressure to reduce carbon emissions has also driven the search for alternatives. The International Air Transport Association, which represents 230 airlines, wants its members to use 10 percent alternative fuels by 2017.
Oh, well, I guess the crisis isn't THAT SERIOUS -- except when it comes to YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT, Amurkns!!
And YOU KNOW what THAT MEANS: A CARBON TAX especially for YOUR STRUGGLING ASS!!!!
