Carbon neutral since at least 1987
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By
Rory Ryan-hcpress@cinci.rr.com
Some time back, I noticed that a popular online search engine (yeah, the one where you can't find Kash Patel's homepage) claims to be "carbon neutral since 2007."
It offers no proof of its alleged "carbon neutrality." Perhaps its "human resources" (we call those "people" in my realm) do not exhale carbon dioxide.
I seriously doubt that most major corporations and woke municipalities are anywhere close to being carbon neutral. However, I am – and I've been carbon neutral for more than three decades. How so?
Glad you asked.
According to no less of an authority than Bruce Logan, an associate director of Penn State University Institutes of Energy and the Environment, who said: "If you add up all the carbon dioxide released for each person in the country based on our use of fossil fuels and calculate the number of trees you need to take up the carbon dioxide released, the total is equivalent to about 730 trees per person or roughly seven acres of forested land."
Hmmm.
It's taken me more than 30 years to stumble across this alarming reality. After all, yours truly once wrote that he wanted to leave a great big old carbon footprint when he slipped away into eternal Tranquility. (Tranquility is capitalized for good reason.)
I won't live long enough nor ever be so inclined to purchase an electric car – which has the biggest of all carbon footprints. I will drive my gas-guzzling pickup truck, work van and Alabama van for the remainder of my days. And do you know why? I am carbon neutral and have been since at least 1987.
For some background, I have been surrounded by more than 15,000 trees for the last 35 years.
If the PSU formula of 730 trees per person is an annual basis, we can deduce that my property can support up to 20 people for carbon neutrality (15,000/730). I doubt Google, Amazon or John Cranley's near-sighted solar vision in New Market can ever top that. Unless I clear-cut my land, I am carbon neutral in perpetuity.
Carbon dioxide is a colorless, odorless gas produced by burning carbon and organic compounds and by respiration (also known as breathing). It is naturally present in air at a level of just 0.03 percent. It is absorbed by plants in photosynthesis. We have a mostly political and financial mindset among some very powerful and influential 1-percenters that carbon dioxide will be our planet's death knell. And if we eliminate carbon dioxide, it will be.
Meanwhile, those same 1-percenters in political office – supposedly led by Geriatric Joe – have no problem with extracting oil from other nations nor did they have a problem with releasing more than 5 million barrels of oil to Europe and China last month even as U.S. gasoline prices were at
record highs. Those 5 million barrels of oil were part of the U.S. emergency oil reserves, by the way.
As Geriatric Joe calls for gasoline suppliers to cut their prices – in spite of his actions against the industry – even left-wingers like Amazon's Jeff Bezos are beginning to wake up. ("Woke" up?)
Three months ago, in an open letter to Geriatric Joe, I wrote: I'd like to ask just two small favors:
1. If it's not too much to ask, please stop. Stop signing executive orders and stop signing legislation that is hurting hard-working, middle-income Americans.
2. Undo your previous damage from January 2021 to the present. Revoke those Day One executive orders and throw away the ink pens.
For Exhibit A, let's look at the U.S. Energy Information Administration. According to this government agency, two years ago – in April 2020 – the average price for a gallon of gasoline in the state of Ohio was – drum roll, please – not $5 a gallon, not $4 a gallon, not $3 a gallon and not $2 a gallon.
No, Geriatric Joe. It was $1.44 a gallon just 27 months ago. That's from the U.S. government, so it must be true. The EIA also reports that the average price of a gallon of gas in Ohio never reached $3 during the Trump administration. That cannot be said of either the Obama or Biden
administrations.
But as Geriatric Joe and Geriatric John Kerry fly around the world, looking down on "the rest of us," I am more carbon neutral than any of 'em.
Rory Ryan is publisher and owner of The Highland County Press, Highland County's only locally owned and operated newspaper.
It offers no proof of its alleged "carbon neutrality." Perhaps its "human resources" (we call those "people" in my realm) do not exhale carbon dioxide.
I seriously doubt that most major corporations and woke municipalities are anywhere close to being carbon neutral. However, I am – and I've been carbon neutral for more than three decades. How so?
Glad you asked.
According to no less of an authority than Bruce Logan, an associate director of Penn State University Institutes of Energy and the Environment, who said: "If you add up all the carbon dioxide released for each person in the country based on our use of fossil fuels and calculate the number of trees you need to take up the carbon dioxide released, the total is equivalent to about 730 trees per person or roughly seven acres of forested land."
Hmmm.
It's taken me more than 30 years to stumble across this alarming reality. After all, yours truly once wrote that he wanted to leave a great big old carbon footprint when he slipped away into eternal Tranquility. (Tranquility is capitalized for good reason.)
I won't live long enough nor ever be so inclined to purchase an electric car – which has the biggest of all carbon footprints. I will drive my gas-guzzling pickup truck, work van and Alabama van for the remainder of my days. And do you know why? I am carbon neutral and have been since at least 1987.
For some background, I have been surrounded by more than 15,000 trees for the last 35 years.
If the PSU formula of 730 trees per person is an annual basis, we can deduce that my property can support up to 20 people for carbon neutrality (15,000/730). I doubt Google, Amazon or John Cranley's near-sighted solar vision in New Market can ever top that. Unless I clear-cut my land, I am carbon neutral in perpetuity.
Carbon dioxide is a colorless, odorless gas produced by burning carbon and organic compounds and by respiration (also known as breathing). It is naturally present in air at a level of just 0.03 percent. It is absorbed by plants in photosynthesis. We have a mostly political and financial mindset among some very powerful and influential 1-percenters that carbon dioxide will be our planet's death knell. And if we eliminate carbon dioxide, it will be.
Meanwhile, those same 1-percenters in political office – supposedly led by Geriatric Joe – have no problem with extracting oil from other nations nor did they have a problem with releasing more than 5 million barrels of oil to Europe and China last month even as U.S. gasoline prices were at
record highs. Those 5 million barrels of oil were part of the U.S. emergency oil reserves, by the way.
As Geriatric Joe calls for gasoline suppliers to cut their prices – in spite of his actions against the industry – even left-wingers like Amazon's Jeff Bezos are beginning to wake up. ("Woke" up?)
Three months ago, in an open letter to Geriatric Joe, I wrote: I'd like to ask just two small favors:
1. If it's not too much to ask, please stop. Stop signing executive orders and stop signing legislation that is hurting hard-working, middle-income Americans.
2. Undo your previous damage from January 2021 to the present. Revoke those Day One executive orders and throw away the ink pens.
For Exhibit A, let's look at the U.S. Energy Information Administration. According to this government agency, two years ago – in April 2020 – the average price for a gallon of gasoline in the state of Ohio was – drum roll, please – not $5 a gallon, not $4 a gallon, not $3 a gallon and not $2 a gallon.
No, Geriatric Joe. It was $1.44 a gallon just 27 months ago. That's from the U.S. government, so it must be true. The EIA also reports that the average price of a gallon of gas in Ohio never reached $3 during the Trump administration. That cannot be said of either the Obama or Biden
administrations.
But as Geriatric Joe and Geriatric John Kerry fly around the world, looking down on "the rest of us," I am more carbon neutral than any of 'em.
Rory Ryan is publisher and owner of The Highland County Press, Highland County's only locally owned and operated newspaper.