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Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: TalonX on August 30, 2007, 08:23:31 PM: Mine is 17.9 tons per year.

Sorry I can't contribute more....already have an SUV and a huge electric bill. What more can I do???

:)
Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: JB73 on August 30, 2007, 08:26:32 PM: 10 1/2

I'm just guessing as I am not a physicist, mathematician, or environmentalist and have no clue how to "calculate" my footprint other than my shoe size.
Title: Link...
Post by: TalonX on August 30, 2007, 08:32:02 PM: Sorry, not sure how to insert a link but copy and paste this...

http://www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/carboncalculator/

edit: Put one that speaks in American. :)

Oh dang...I added the mileage for my wife's car, air travel, etc... got my footprint at 26.4 tons per year. National average is 7.5 tons per year.

YES!
Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: JB73 on August 30, 2007, 08:41:48 PM: well crap what is £?

what is LPG?

who in hell's name uses COAL?

what's a Supermini, Hot Hatch, and isn't the MPV a military group in Russia named in "The Jackal" movie?

I guessed, 30.15
Title: LOL
Post by: TalonX on August 30, 2007, 08:44:16 PM: I put up an American link. Sorry for forcing you to try to understand the foreign language on the first one, British.
Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: SoulTakr on August 30, 2007, 08:51:13 PM: 3.7

Doesn't have my motorcycle listed, however i've had it 2 years and just barely have over 5k on it
Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: JB73 on August 30, 2007, 08:59:36 PM: Oh I just noticed your "American" link... domain: aninconvenientbullcrapliefalsitiy.com

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :huh

pathetic that even that fool has been proven to spout outright lies in the travesty of a movie people still look to it for "guidance"
Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: bj229r on August 30, 2007, 09:00:27 PM: Quote
Originally posted by JB73

who in hell's name uses COAL?

I use it! mostly burn wood though, and LOTS of it--have 4 cords cut, still in splitting process Put some coal in at bedtime, burns very hot, long time:aok )
Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: eskimo2 on August 30, 2007, 09:00:34 PM: 7.45
Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: Tango on August 30, 2007, 09:15:50 PM: The way Isee it, I'm helping feed the plants and trees.
Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: Mark Luper on August 30, 2007, 09:19:06 PM: 24.1 including 2 extended flights a year. Reduced to 1 extended flight a year it is 23.4. I think the thing just doesn't like me.

Mark
Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: soda72 on August 30, 2007, 09:47:28 PM: 15.15
Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: Holden McGroin on August 30, 2007, 09:57:44 PM: 5.9

And I am not in lockstep with Gore's documentary... I save fuel just because I believe we shouldn't be sending all our money to the Saudis.

I try not to buy Chinese goods too.
Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: Tango on August 30, 2007, 10:30:52 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Holden McGroin
I try not to buy Chinese goods too.

So you don't shop at Walmart? :D
Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: Holden McGroin on August 30, 2007, 10:33:11 PM: I've been in a Walmart twice in 6 yrs.

Went to a Target on Saturday and couldn't find a single item made in the USA.
Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: Masherbrum on August 30, 2007, 11:53:56 PM: 8

I refuse to buy at Wal Mart. The only time I DID, was when I'd buy Winchester ammo for cheap. That is my only Wal Mart purchases.
Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: texasmom on August 31, 2007, 01:10:09 AM: 8.05
Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: Blooz on August 31, 2007, 03:56:54 AM: Don't know about carbon but my methane footprint is huge.
Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: eskimo2 on August 31, 2007, 04:09:13 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Mark Luper
24.1 including 2 extended flights a year. Reduced to 1 extended flight a year it is 23.4. I think the thing just doesn't like me.

Mark

I think it is you who doesn't like Mother Earth buster!

Or for that manner: clean air, trees, flowers, newborn kittens, bunnies, the starving children of Africa, Jesus... etc. I'd even say that you are responsible for the war in Iraq as well as the ice caps melting. How do you live with yourself?

Everytime I cough while dying of lung cancer, I'll think of you.

:)
Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: Angus on August 31, 2007, 06:11:43 AM: 1.25

That's me personally, not the business.
Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: nuchpatrick on August 31, 2007, 07:22:35 AM: 5.5 Not bad..
Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: majic on August 31, 2007, 09:43:33 AM: 3.5

I live close to work and never fly.

How on Earth are you supposed to know what % of your energy comes from what type of source? I had to leave that at a zero.
Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: BigGun on August 31, 2007, 09:55:40 AM: only 19.65

I fly too much. Good thing it only had a place to put in one car.
Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: GtoRA2 on August 31, 2007, 10:19:59 AM: lol 15.15
Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: lazs2 on August 31, 2007, 10:36:50 AM: can't figure it using that site. they don't go below 1985 on cars and even if I use the Lincoln... the only lincolns they recognize are SUV's

They don't have motorcycles or allow for multiple cars.

lazs
Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: indy007 on August 31, 2007, 11:20:13 AM: 17.15

I don't fly much, but I do love my air conditioners.
Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: DYNAMITE on August 31, 2007, 02:07:30 PM: 6.5 for me...
Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: Hortlund on August 31, 2007, 02:14:55 PM: 2.95
Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: Curval on August 31, 2007, 03:31:27 PM: Love to take the test but I can't.

I don't live in a state in the US, the make of my car is not listed, my bike isn't listed at all, and my average electricity bill is outragously high because of where I live not because of my consumption so the figure would skew the results.
Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: 2bighorn on August 31, 2007, 03:44:37 PM: 26.85

How the heck did they get national average of 7.5 only?
Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: lazs2 on September 01, 2007, 10:23:17 AM: Like everything about the whole silly man made global warming due to co2 thing...

The test is simplistic and flawed and leaves out every bit of data that means anything.

There is no way to answer a lot of the questions.. the choices do not exist.

lazs
Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: C(Sea)Bass on September 01, 2007, 01:52:07 PM: 24.75, and thats with only one of the family's cars. with the other car it's around 34. FYI the second car is NOT American yet still adds 9 tons.
Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: Entr0py on September 01, 2007, 07:22:11 PM: This reminds me of that old Tim Allen bit about cylinder count. The higher the cylinder count in your garage, the more manly its supposed to be. I have 21 total cylinders in the driveway/garage.
Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: Grayeagle on September 01, 2007, 07:49:17 PM: 11.5 .. I am such a slacker -hangs head in shame-

I know .. I'll buy a used Hummer that burns a quart of oil every 500 miles
and if its tuned rich perhaps I can get down to 3mpg!
Just think of all the Toyota's and Honda's that wont have gas available because *I* used it all UP!

It'll smoke out the mosquito's too :)

-Frank
Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: Halo on September 01, 2007, 10:26:51 PM: 7.4, right at the national average.

But I wonder about the technique of asking how much money is spent on electricity and gas. Prices vary all over the country. Better measure would be units consumed. But that would make the game too exasperating to play.
Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: acfireguy26 on September 01, 2007, 10:35:53 PM: 17.45
Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: Tachus on September 01, 2007, 11:30:34 PM: 136.9 I have to make up for all the slackers out there, only using 7.5. I own property just 400 yards off the beach, and I figure by the time I get to retirement, it could be beach front if we melt down some of those polar ice caps.

Best regards,
--Tachus

Actually, I don't have a clue.
Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: lazs2 on September 02, 2007, 09:19:49 AM: Ahhhh... cylinders... I can relate to that. I have 26 cylinders in the garage not counting landscaping crap.

lazs
Title: What's your carbon footprint?
Post by: Oogly50 on September 02, 2007, 09:34:20 AM: 9969.25 a year... And I don't even own a car :(