treehugger.com — Cooking four normal sized hamburgers in a fast food joint emits the same amount of VOC's (volatile organic compounds) as driving a current model car for 1,000 miles.....In New Jersey, 16,000 restaurants release 2,226 tons of particulates, more than all of the heavy diesel vehicles in the state (1,329 tons).
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Closed AccountJul 27, 2006
DAMN YOU RONALD MCDONALD!?!?
tvashtarJul 28, 2006
lmao! I'm beginning to see a pattern here ....;-)
metmanJul 28, 2006
"Clearly, cows are the cause of global warming." - sorry I just love that statement.
luyseyalJul 28, 2006
FrankTheTankWSU -You wrote "2. Treehugger.com is conflating the term VOC with Greenhouse Gases."I modded you down because you don't appear to have even read the article. This has nothing to do with greenhouse gases, but rather particulates, an important component in smog.-l
bobothnJul 28, 2006
hahaha and more then that is released by cows. so yes global warming is happening blame the cows not me.
drizekJul 28, 2006
guess youre right. Im not sure where i heard that.
epiccollisionJul 28, 2006
VOC's are not particulate(solid) matter they are "volatile" hence a gas, think ground level ozone and hydrocarbon fumes that evaporate into the air see <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volatile_organic_compound">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volatile_organic_compound</a>
trghpyJul 28, 2006
OK... fast food restaurants release more VOC's than the trucks running on petroleum diesel.. Now what if those trucks where running on Bio-Diesel?Will this be the end of the tree hugging Bio-Diesel cars?
stalky14Jul 31, 2006
> They are little particles that float around in the air and are not good to breathYou know, I've gotten used to the "their/there/they're" problem and the "loose/lose" problem, and "then/than" is a rarity, but one I cannot understand and see far too frequently online is "breath/breathe". There is really no subtle difference here. They are pronounced differently, and the first one is a noun, the second is a verb. Why is this one so hard?
azizazizaAug 4, 2006
Screw it! f**k this planet! Let's build a spaceship and get out of this hellhole of a solar system. I've only been to 1/10 of them, but I can just tell that the other nine will suck too. Or, of course, we can all go veggie head on their asses, eat all the trees, then run out of oxygen, and have to move to pluto. It's your choice.