US lawmaker blames bicycle breath for global warming gas

[Theseus]

Only in America ...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/05/bicyclists_as_polluters/

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Breathtaking ignorance.

 

[Radchenister]

... and it's only March !

 

[guitarpete247]

"You claim that it is environmentally friendly to ride a bike. But if I am not mistaken, a cyclists [sic] has an increased heart rate and respiration. That means that the act of riding a bike results in greater emissions of carbon dioxide from the rider. Since CO2 is deemed to be a greenhouse gas and a pollutant, bicyclists are actually polluting when they ride."

Quote from the lawmaker in question. Surely an overweight, unfit driver would be producing more CO2 .

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

"You claim that it is environmentally friendly to ride a bike. But if I am not mistaken, a cyclists [sic] has an increased heart rate and respiration. That means that the act of riding a bike results in greater emissions of carbon dioxide from the rider. Since CO2 is deemed to be a greenhouse gas and a pollutant, bicyclists are actually polluting when they ride."

Quote from the lawmaker in question. Surely an overweight, unfit driver would be producing more CO2 .

I think anybody of whatever size would use more oxygen walking over a set distance than they would do cycling. And walkers, do they pay pavement tax?

 

[guitarpete247]

...... And walkers, do they pay pavement tax?

Don't give him ideas .

 

[Chris S]

Cyclists aren't releasing CO2 trapped in fossil fuels - all the CO2 we expire comes from the food we've eaten. It's then used by plants to produce more food, either for us or animals. There is no net increase.

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

This sort of thing may give our government ideas

 

[Eribiste]

This sort of thing may give our government ideas

A government with an idea? Surely that's dangerous!

 

[MontyVeda]

Cyclists aren't releasing CO2 trapped in fossil fuels - all the CO2 we expire comes from the food we've eaten. It's then used by plants to produce more food, either for us or animals. There is no net increase.

I've always wondered about the effects of the entire human and animal population breathing out at once, and its effect on co2 emissions... thanks for that

 

[uphillstruggler]

and he is a lawmaker! blimey, how do you trust someone like that. and why are the rest of the population not trusted to be lawmakers!

they need help, and fast

 

[ufkacbln]

If you really want to worry read the comments!

I love the suggestion that the way forward was to remove Oxygen from the atmosphere, thus preventing CO2 formation.

Then suggesting an "AirTax" with plants being given tax concessions for reversing the process

Brilliant!

 

[Leaway2]

I feel so guilty I probably emit more CH4 than CO2 though.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

does he hold his breath when he is driving?
some of the comments (to the article) are really amusing and amazingly sad.... love the query of the speding 95% of his time of the freeway but being held up by cyclists!

 

[Col5632]

Just a complete tool tbh, you can't stop people breathing ffs