[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <4ed91a01$0$2175$c3e8da3$9f400e27 at news.astraweb.com>, JF
Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes: 

> From  planetary point of view, the only CO2 which hurts the planet is
> the CO2 that has been sequesterred deed unde rthe surface for millenia,
> namely oil and coal.

Right.

> The CO2 produced by cows is not "new" CO2. It is carbon that is part of
> the cycle , in air, absorved by grass, eaten by cows and come out of
> their manure back into the air.

Right.

> Similarly, a company that gets carbon from CO2 extraction from air
> should not have its CO2 taxed.

Right.

> The problem is that oil and coal lobbies are too strong to accept that
> oil and coal be taxed at the source. But those are the industries which
> add carbon to the atmosphere.

Right.

> It would be far simpler to just tax oil and coal at the mine/drill site
> than to have taxes added at the retail level.

Right.

> And this woudl give manufacturers more choces on where to source their
> energy and/or carbon.

Right.

One thing about the cows, though.  While what you say is tru for CO2, it 
is NOT true for methane.  The farting and belching of cows is a major
source of atmospheric methane, and methane is a much stronger greenhouse 
gas than is CO2 (though there is more CO2 in the atmosphere than 
methane).