Jim Devine wrote:
On 8/27/06, Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Why Exxon Loves Global Warming
Today's Sacramento Bee publishes a story from the Kansas City Star
that reports that
consumers in the United States are spending about $2.3 billion more
for gasoline and
diesel because of higher temperatures. In other words, a warm gallon
of gasoline
contains [less] fuel than a cold gallon of gasoline -- perhaps giving
new meaning to
the term inflation.
So Exxon and the other oil giants have good reason to welcome global
warming since
it helps to boost their already hugely profitable returns.
<http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/15370193.htm>
so buying gallons of gas helps cause global warming, which raises the
number of gallons of gas used, so that ...
.
... it becomes another chunk of the 'Carbon Snowball' (Universal Acid:
Climate change and extinctions
<http://universalacid.blogspot.com/2005/01/climate-change-and-extinctions.html>,
as is the case with the higher incidence of forest fires due to
global... climate change... causing more carbon to be insinuated in the
atmosphere, increasing global... climate change... extinction...
The link above opines that the 'snowball' is a naturally occuring CO2
cycle, without making reference to humankind's exacerbation of the
situation.
Leigh
http://leighm.net/
