On 2/14/07, Frederick Sparber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Undoing it in less than 300 years is going to be costly. Fred
I disagree. see: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/04/020412080812.htm Cost of the entire process is equivalent to about 20 cents per gallon of gasoline. So for 40c per Gallon of gasoline you could be reversing the CO2 levels, as there are more and more cars that means that it would take less time to reverse. 40c per gallon to know you are doing a good thing, just look at the taxes already on petrol/gasoline. Along with planting more trees and green transport options (in which case either a 20c charge per equivalent energy equivalent making it even cheaper) Actually if the US just put all the money it has spent on holding a human BBQ in Iraq in an effort to increase human misery and liberate more oil for the environment, and instead put it into cleaning up the co2 levels how much co2 could be scrubbed at that cost? Ok, Ok I'll get figures. $622 Billion so far (asking for far more of course) at .20c per gallon to clean up that's 1,833,021,200,000 gallons of gasoline reversed. At the usage of 146 Billion gallons used a year according to how stuff works.com, that's 12.5 years of oil usage they could have reversed. And the average fuel tax in the US is 22c a Gallon according to Wikipedia, if that was used to reverse CO2 it would slowly go backwards. You can purchase carbon credits for $23 AU ($18.01US) per carbon credit from http://www.carbonplanet.com (one tonne of co2), where as the above method is $14.7USD per tonne. Either way this isn't really expensive, an increase of 10-20% (counting a rate of $2.20 per gallon approx average) is enough to fix the problem, what we have is a 'people getting off their ass to fix the problem' problem. Compare that with losing some expensive realistate and extinction of species.
