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Mr Jimmy

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10. But what about the climate?

Reply to EX500rider (Reply #9)

Thu Jun 27, 2019, 07:58 PM

Jun 2019

The poster above says it will take 2 or 3 decades to get everyone out of petrol powered vehicles.
20 or 30 years!
Do we have that long?

Maybe a little pain now will avoid greater pain later.

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Shut down all of the carbon spewing climate destroying filthy refineries Mr Jimmy Jun 2019 #1

That is a really bad idea. cstanleytech Jun 2019 #2

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It's fun to pretend there was a point to that reply. Loki Liesmith Jun 2019 #7

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Right? I mean who cares if the semi's & trains stop rolling and food disappears from all the stores EX500rider Jun 2019 #9

But what about the climate? Mr Jimmy Jun 2019 #10

All the US metropolitan populations starving to death is not "a little pain now" EX500rider Jun 2019 #11

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Why would we import fuel. I thought we were pretty much every independent and an exporter? cbelle1039 Jun 2019 #12