I think you meant to say Carbon Monoxide.
If cars were filling the atmosphere with carbon dioxide all the plants would grow like crazy.

So, if carbon dioxide is a pollutant you wish to stop dispersing into the atmosphere, just stop breathing.

I think you're confused. Carbon dioxide is indeed a pollutant, and if you pump fossil fuels out of the ground and burn them you add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. On the other hand, when you grow a plant and eat it you're taking C02 out of the atmosphere and then putting it back.

I'm guessing that plants aren't affected in any obvious way because of the fact that they are limited by the amounts of water and sunlight they can obtain.


A similarity between humans and cars is that both use compounds which contain carbon and hydrogen, react them with oxygen, and produce far more water and C02 than anything else in those reactions.

Humans' hydrogen-and-carbon-containing fuels are known as proteins, sugars, fats, and alcohols. Many engines run fine on either Diesel or perfectly edible oil, while some others will run fine on either gasoline or pure alcohol (of the sort you could safely spike your punch with).

1.) mount a car horn
2.) tie it into your pre-existing 12v light setup
3.) wait for senseless motorist aggression
4.) honk back with with two quick, friendly beeps while giving a friendly wave and appearing as though you've just been reunited with a long lost friend

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Carbon dioxide (CO2) is formed when a hydrocarbon fully reacts with oxygen in combustion. Carbon monoxide (CO) is formed when hydrocarbons combust with an insufficient amount of oxygen.

both are found in car exhaust, both are greenhouse gases. however, exhaust from automobiles is hardly the cause of the problem with this global increase of the gases. If every person in the US drove a hummer, the total amount of CO and CO2 emissions for a year would hardly amount to the levels given off in a single volcanic eruption. I'm not sure offhand how many hundreds/thousands of volcanoes go off in a year, but there's a lot. The problem is with the big industries and chemical plants and whatever else just pouring smoke out. Yet our president refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol, saying it would cost our big american companies too much money to help the environment.

Volcanoes do give off a fair amount of CO2, but there's also a natural reduction, a "re-fossilisation", of CO2 through sedimentation of calcium carbonate from various marine life forms as well as through other processes. That balances much of the natural addition of fossil CO2.

Motorised traffic typically represents 20-30% of the total fossil CO2 emissions of a country.

While I sympathize with the original poster, I'm more the nonconfrontational, idealistic sort that prefers something more like this...

https://petermiller.info/yellowcard.html

I don't think most Americans would get the gest of the yellow card/red card thing considering that in their game of footbal, the ball rarely touches a foot

I agree that a non-confrontational method would be better and far less dangerous, but I think it would be fun (in theory, not practice) to leave something that said:

I'm not anywhere near being a pacifist, but lately I've tried calmly pulling up to trangressors at red lights & asking them to roll down their windows.

I try to hold back the rage, bile & sarcasm when I say "Sir/Miss, you were just driving in the bike lane/cut me off without looking/nearly killed me because you didn't bother to look. Please don't do that again/look before you turn."

Most of the time I'll get an apology, even if it's not sincere. The point I'm trying to make to these people is that there are humans riding these bikes. Not obstacles in GTA.

If you write off everyone as 'cagers' you'll probably get treated as a faceless 'biker' in return.

Yes, it's far easier said than done. I have to remind myself daily not to flip off or scream at every mindless driver I pass on the road.

Very true, Lucky. Just this morning, trying to navigate the 6th Ave. bike lane in Midtown — which is filled with idling limos, police traffic sawhorses, the odd huge pile of police-horse crap (really) — I almost got doored. The fashion shows are in Bryant Park, and an honest-to-god fashionista threw her cab door open right into the bike lane. I screeched to a halt. (Sounded closer than it was, so everyone turned.) This woman in her nice coat and done-up hair looked at me and said, "It's not as if it's my fault." (Her accurate grammar floored me, so I didn't say anything for a second. "As if" rather than "like"!) "Well," I finally said, "yes. It is your fault. Look first." If I'd had the light and a clean getaway, I'm quite sure my response would have been angrier and more profane. And it would have done no good at all in the long run.

Well played, sir.