Originally Posted by
mstateglfr
In other words...'I am wrong, but I will not admit I am wrong, even though I recognize I am wrong and explain why I was wrong.'
No, I admitted I misread their number, but the way they wrote that number caused my misreading. I'm not sure I've ever seen someone put a decimal point immediately to the right of a colon before.
": .12 lb CO2e" is friggin' hard to read in a sentence on a tablet. When they responded to my error, they announce it's "ZERO POINT TWELVE pounds" like that's what they wrote. Notice the "ZERO"? That wasn't there, and it's a pretty great example of why we have that convention.
Now, you want to explain what the comparison between ebikes and human-powered bikes has to do with the comparison of the carbon footprint of beef production vs. other foods? Because I don't know about you, but I don't think grossly exaggerating the carbon footprint of pedaling a bicycle is a rhetorical strategy we should encourage.