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Subject:Re: gas prices- a canadian perspective
From:Greg Potts
Date:Sat, 5 Mar 2005 21:59:27 -0500

Hi David,

I see your point... you're looking at the carbon cycle, whereas I'm
talking about air quality. We're both right, but we're each having a
different arguement. Sigh.

These enviro discussions get that way a lot, don't they?

</Greg>

On 5-Mar-05, at 9:23 PM, David Marshall wrote:

> Greg,
> I agree with all points except for your last paragraph of releasing CO
> into
> the atmosphere.  Burning biofuels does release CO into the atmosphere,
> but
> the end result is a neutral process as the plant that produced that
> oil or
> alcohol consumed as much CO as you produced by burning it.  Burning
> fossil
> fuels releases new [really million year old CO!] CO into the
> atmosphere,
> thus adding to what is there.
>
> David Marshall