Thread: Pump or CO2?
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Old 02-18-15 | 11:48 AM
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Originally Posted by rpenmanparker
Yeah this whole discussion is kind of like, "Let him who is without sin among you, be the first to throw a stone..." Who has done a cradle-to-grave ecological footprint analysis of CO2 cartridges? Who knows how they compare, on average, to using a pump? How many cartridges the average user will consume during the lifetime of one pump and what the difference in ecological stress that will represent? Is that amount of waste (assuming the CO2 is disadvantaged) significant compared to other lifestyle choices we make? This is all beyond ridiculous...just like the last 100 times it was discussed.
Oh, come on. It's not that hard. The simple metric is that a pump is reusable, CO2 cartridges aren't. You don't have to do a cradle-to-grave anything to understand that.
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