[Terrapreta] Fw: a tiny outburst of common sense

[Greg and April]

It wouldn't work.

Consider how much carbon is put into the atmosphere, just to recover it from 
the ground and process it into a useable form and deliver it for use.

Then add in how much it is put into the atmosphere by the various 
governments to provide the services that they do.

Don't forget how much enters the atmosphere due to agriculture, and 
transportation of food and various goods.

Don't stop yet, construction, has a high carbon cost, as does the computer 
industry, electricity generation, entertainment industry, and don't forget 
all the humanitarian efforts that going on world wide.


If you think about it, even the renewable energy industry has a very high 
dependence on CO2 being released into the atmosphere, and can not be made 
self sustaining.


Even something as small as a $.05 charge per gallon of liquid fuel, would 
have a major ripple effect, all around the world, yet would accomplish 
little in return.


Greg H.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gerald Van Koeverden" <vnkvrdn at yahoo.ca>
To: <jimstoy at dtccom.net>
Cc: <Terrapreta at bioenergylists.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 7:07
Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] Fw: a tiny outburst of common sense


> the simplest way of dealing with fossil carbon is merely to charge
> the users by how much it costs us to rectify the damage they are
> doing, no?
>
> thus if it costs us $.15 to neutralize the CO2 effect for each gallon
> of gas, then that much should be charged extra and should be paid to
> somebody who does the job...
>
> is this too simple?
>
>