Vanagons on veggie oil don't increase the CO2 in our air.  I can't wait
for Al Gore to figure out a way to put catalytic converters on
volcano's.  One eruption puts out more green house gases than all the
tailpipes have since they were invented!  We have such a miniscule
impact on our planet that it isn't funny.  Not that we should go out of
our way to poison ourselves mind you.  It's just that the government is
always looking for ways to control us in what we do and how we act.
TEMiller

Steve Delanty wrote:

> At 05:15 AM 5/15/2004, Al Knoll wrote:
>
>> <snip>
>> Seems to me the global war-ming is caused by excess greenhouse gases,
>> CO2
>> being the most significant.  Diesel cycle engines produce CO2 as an
>> exhaust
>> component in approximately the same quantity per stroke regardless of
>> the
>> fuel source D1,D2, McDooDoo or Chik-fil-a or soybean oil.  I fail to
>> understand (my usual excuse) how using "organic" "free range" "home
>> grown"
>> oil sources would significantly affect the CO2 fraction of the
>> exhaust gas.
>>
>> pensioner
>
>
> -----------------
> When plants grow, they remove CO2 from the atmosphere and store
> it in the plant tissues. When you burn veggie oil, that same CO2 is
> released back into the air. It's a cycle, with the same CO2 being used
> by the plants and released over and over.
> The net quantity of atmospheric CO2 doesn't increase.
>
> When you burn petroleum, you are releasing millions of years of
> previously stored CO2  into the atmosphere, increasing the total
> quantity of CO2 in the air...
>
>
> Steve
> EJ22 -> '86 Westy "Escape Pod"