Guest Thinkers — July 19, 2009

CO2 vs. CO in emissions

I know CO2 is bad, but what about CO?

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The emissions in current oil production of products release huge amounts of everything! Just as other burning products have been anaylized for every component, why has CO emissions been ingnored and or not spoken about.

These two different compounds are called Carbon DIoxide, which is what we exhale, and Carbon MONoxixe, which is deadly to the WHOLE environment.

This would speed along the idea of change for a better environmennt.

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