According the fun-suckers at Obama’s Department Against Energy, Jack O’Lanterns cause Global Warming.
With the passing of Halloween, millions of pounds of pumpkins have turned from seasonal decorations to trash destined for landfills, adding to more than 254 million tons of municipal solid waste (MSW) produced in the United States every year. This Halloween, think of turning this seasonal waste into energy as a very important “trick” that can have a positive environmental and energy impact.
At landfills, MSW decomposes and eventually turns into methane—a harmful greenhouse gas that plays a part in climate change, with more than 20 times the warming effect of carbon dioxide (CO2).
It’s not that I object to refining waste into biofuel; I just hate the constant, taxpayer funded propaganda for the Cult of Global Warming. For example, the Department Against Energy also wants you to dress up your kids as Solar Panels for Halloween.
Farm animals and humans fart; which contributes to climate change. Will the EPA fine us for it?
If the numbnuts at the DOE would get off the Algore bandwagon for just ten minutes, they would realize that a) methane is the principal component in natural gas, that “clean” fuel that is used to alternatively power those things that now or in the past use/d “dirty” coal; b) a number of municipalities currently use the methane from landfills to generate electric power (since you can essentially drill for it just like “natural” natural gas, only easier); and c) maybe the problem is using landfills in the first place, when there are municipalities that incinerate their trash and use that to generate electric power.
This is what happens when you have a governing administration which is so locked into a particular mindset that they can’t see the forest for all the damn trees cluttering the view.
There’s been some concern for some time in the agriculture community that meat production (particularly beef) will be subject to just that type of regulation.
This is what happens when the country elects a permanent city-dweller as president who has no concept of where food comes from in the USA other than perhaps Whole Foods Market.
What. Did these goons sleep through science class? Do they have no idea how the carbon cycle works?
Echo- Harvard has had remedial English and Biology classes for decades.
After hearing Rush on this last Friday, I wanted to dress my youngest up as a wind turbine… only I wanted to add decapitated birds to the costume.
Perfect Halloween costume to traumatize environmentalists…