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- Subject: Re: Japanese Motorcycle Repair Kit
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 11:01:22 GMT
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- Chris Malcolm (cam@castle.ed.ac.uk) wrote:
- : In article <1992Nov16.202109.28337@asl.dl.nec.com> drinckes@nzl.abk.nec.co.jp writes:
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- : >Have you noticed it's usually the grottiest, rustiest cars pumping out the
- : >most smoke and oil that have the Greenpeace stickers on? Yeah, save the
- : >environment with carbon dioxide. Right on.
- :
- : What a moron! It is elementary chemistry that the more smoke and oil
- : the car pumps out the _less_ carbon dioxide it is producing. In any
- : case there is nothing wrong with carbon dioxide -- it happens to be
- : the main exhaust gas produced by animal lungs, and is one of the main
- : foods of plant life. But if you really want to stop producing carbon
- : dioxide I suggest you stop breathing.
- :
- : --
- : Chris Malcolm cam@uk.ac.ed.aifh +44 (0)31 650 3085
- : Department of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University
- : 5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, EH1 2QL, UK DoD #205
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- Steady on there old chap, he probably meant carbon monoxide.
- Oil and smoke (burning oil? Unburnt petrol?) are not exactly conducive
- to a decent environment or saving the planet you know.
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- Did you see the bit on Tomorrow's World about the busses in reading that
- are running on crop-derived fuel. It looks to be a good way forward.
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- Nick (the Vegetable-Oiled Biker) MAG 73516 DoD 1069 Extra-Virgin
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- M'Lud.
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