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Originally Posted by Flyboy

What about Hurricane Katrina?

The reason new orleans was wiped off the map was that it didn't belong on it in the first place. You don't normally see black dots in the light blue regions.

Originally Posted by Flyboy

Last year there was an unprecedented number of natural disasters which have been linked by a number of scientists to climate change.

How do you count natural disasters? I'm guessing you meant worst disasters in terms of casualties, in which case, AFAIK, atmosphere based disasters genrally do not compare to earthquakes/tsunamis, I don't think you're going to claim that those are a result of global warming, are you?

Originally Posted by SoccerDude28

Government also plays a role in it. When they started giving tax breaks for hybrid cars and allowing hybrid owners to drive in the carpool lane, the number of hybrid cars starting increasing (especially with the gas price increase). But now the government is removing the tax break, and in California, Arnold is revoking the law that allows hybrid owners to drive in the carpool lane.

Whoa, slow down, first the US gov't needs to stop giving tax breaks to people people who buy hummers and the like, not throwing nuclear waste at other countries would be good too, then they can start thinking about doing a net good environmentally.

Originally Posted by rlpw

Fact #3: America has more oil reserves than any other country. The Alaskan Oil Reserve and Gulf of Mexico Oil Reserve are as large as all the Middle Eastern Oil Deposits.

Originally Posted by rlpw

2: Never trust scientists unless they can completely PROVE there work.

*scratches head*

So ... what you're saying is ... that subterran geologists aren't really scientists ... right?

Originally Posted by Jat316sob

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Cars for the rich only, now there's an idea. There would be all sorts of ways of doing that, gas taxes, huge insurance requirements for endangering motorcycle drivers, free public transit, tax breaks for motorcycles and bikes, etc.