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    My Carbon Footprint

    December 6th, 2007

    I was thinking what with this big deal UN conference on Global Warming happening in Jakarta and the delegates to it blowing hundreds of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere just to get there, what is my carbon footprint?
    Well thanks to Algore the Evil Snow God and the folks at http://www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/carboncalculator/
    I now know that my carbon footprint is WAY above average. I heat my house with liquefied dinosaurs as well as run my car with it but what got me was the calculator never asked me about my gas powered lawn mower or gas powered weed whacker. It’s a two-stroke motor I’ll have you know. They didn’t even ask about my fireplace, charcoal grill, burning leaves out back or the fact I don’t recycle. I think I could have scored much much higher if they had asked the right questions.
    This web site claims that the average carbon footprint is 7.5 tons a year and I only came in at 29.75 tons!
    I have come up with a few ideas to help raise my score.
    First off, I’ll turn the heat up to 297.03 (Kelvin). That should triple my fuel oil consumption.
    Then I’ll trade my Honda in for a Dodge Ram 1 ton four wheel drive pickup truck with a 390CID V8 Cummings diesel motor. Oh boy, that should get 4 or 5 MPG!! After that maybe I’ll just leave the lawn mower running all the time, 24/7. Yea, that way I’ll never have to bother with starting it once a week or so.
    Well, shoot, I might as well just leave my car running 24/7 too. That way I’ll always know where my keys are!!
    So to you my dear readers, I pose these questions; What else can I do to help raise my score, What is your carbon footprint score and what are you doing to help raise your score?


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