19 thoughts on “Carbon Action Day”

  3. Well, Sunday is my day off, which means I won’t be doing my usual 25-miles-one-way drive to work, but that doesn’t mean I’ll be sitting on my butt! First of all, I’ll probably go to the Green Valley Book Fair and get a few dead-tree items, and then I plan to drive around the valley taking photos with one or more of my film cameras (so wasteful unlike digital!), so I’ll be burning quite a bit of gas. I do my part!

  4. I’m doing my part. I’m running my Subaru Impreza with an off-road racing pipe right now. No power robbing catalytic converter for me thank you for much. Unfortunately, this also made my fuel economy go up. So, I’ll just go and do some donuts in a empty field at some point later on. There is a nice big construction lot full of dirt by my house that’s just begging for me to kick up some rooster tails.

  5. Weather permitting, I’m going to fly my 1967 Piper Cherokee for a few hours this weekend. It burns about 8 gallons of leaded aviation gasoline per hour.

  6. I paid taxes that allowed Obama to fly on Air Force One, Pelosi to have a personal USAF jet, and Bolden to fly to China.

    What do I win?

  8. I just filled and turned on the hot tub for the winter, and set the temp at 105. Which means I’ll need to take the cover off for awhile before I get in it, too hot.

    But I like Josh’s donuts, great idea.

  9. I think it’s useful to think of alternatives to the ridiculous “reduce your carbon footprint by 10% on 10.10” idea in much the way Human Achievement Hour (Day?) was used as an alternative to the “lights out for people hour” the freaks held a few months ago.

  10. Eh, I’ll just bbq outside on my charcoal grill like I always do.

    I’d do some donuts out in front, but that always bring the po-po.

  11. Bob’s remark reminds me that we don’t have enough holidays to celebrate superficial efforts to appear to be helping the environment. For example, there are millions of chemical and isotope combinations which we could use to fill out the rest of the year. For example, there’s roughly 30 million tons of deuterium hydrogen oxide, a dangerous greenhouse gas, in the environment right now, much of it released by shoddy nuclear plants. We should have a day of year, where everyone reduces by 10% their production of DHO.

    Or Pamper’s day, where everyone reduces their production of used disposable diapers by 10% in order to show our respect for Mother Nature and our awareness of the problem of filling up landfill space.

  13. I’m going to drive around pointlessly in my 10MPG 1/2 ton climate adjuster.

    But how does that reduce your disposable diaper footprint? We have to think of the polar bears!

  17. While I was out watching Old Faithful go off (in Yellowstone), I thought of another thing we could be doing for Mother Earth. There were dozens of people clicking away with digital cameras, which unlike film cameras can hold thousands of pictures, no doubt each one with a high carbon footprint. How about we take one day of the year to show our respect for Gaia by taking ten percent less digital pictures and downloading ten percent less porn?

  18. T-72 battle tank – 41.5 tonnes, V-12 diesel, 780 horsepower, synchromesh 8-gear transmission, 500mm armor, tank gun, machine gun, antiaircraft gun – now that’s what I call a sport utility vehicle.

    But how many gallons per mile does it do?

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