Car crashes are contributing to climate change, a senior representative of the auto industry told lawmakers Wednesday.
“The Federal Highway Administration estimates that 12.5 percent of congestion, 3 million metric tons [of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions], is directly attributable to crashes,” said Mitch Bainwol, president and CEO of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers. “Thus, there is a direct link between reducing crashes and reducing CO2 emissions,” which many scientists say is the cause of manmade climate change.
Here’s your 98% scientific fact:
Next!
Finally, we now have a good reason to now focus on reducing car crashes. Because before climate change awareness, it was just bumper cars out there.
That dude needs to pull the stick shift out of his ass and go have a snickers bar.
Oh I agree. I was hitting stuff just for kicks and had insurance companies on speed dial, paying lots of money for my silly hobby. I guess I better slow it down now.
Almost sounds like an ad for “moar high speed trains!”
And car crashes are way up because of texting. So how about some Smart Phone Control for millennials, soccer moms and hipsters? I could even go for confiscation.
Just like “Cash for Clunkers”, who gets hurt the most by this? The poor. Making crash avoidance technology mandatory instead of optional will increase the cost of cars. Next they’ll pull a cash for clunkers claiming that you have to get outdated cars that don’t have the technology off the road–again destroying the used car market and hurting the poor.
Progressives suck.
Personally, I think the oral gases spewed by libtards are very noxious and harmful to the health of not just the environment, but the country as a whole.
Address THAT, why don’t ya?
Maybe some kind of permanent muffler device…
OK. How much air is there on Earth?
Would you believe 6.0535 e+15 tons?
e+9 is a Billion
e+12 is a Trillion
e+15 is a Quadrillion
So, 3 million tons sounds like a lot to the innumerate, but that’s 3 e+6.
So, that amounts to ~5 e-8 percent.
0.00000005 percent.
Or 1/20 of a Millionth of 1 percent.
CO2 makes up about 0.04% ordinarily.
Give me a fucking break.
Got nothing serious to worry about?
Maybe we don’t need all kinds of technology to save us from ourselves, we just need to pay fcuking attention.
I stumbled upon a fresh wreck last week, sunny day, warm, dry roads, etc. It was at a three way intersection for Walmart, I go through it at least once a day. As I drove by, I couldn’t make heads or tails of how the 2 cars collided. People were out walking around, it didn’t look like there were any major injuries, so I piped up as I drove by. Good work!
If looks could kill.
Solution: Don’t drive. Stay at home. Be Afraid, very Afraid…
of the EPA.
>> pay fcuking attention
How much? Is it in the app store for 99 cent?