Michael French

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yeah this is a Debbie Downer segment- so what?
First, a PWC is a personal water craft, jet ski, or wet jet, or sea doo- whatever you call it)

An average two-hour ride on a PWC emits three gallons of gas and oil into the water. The California Air Resources Board reports that a two-hour ride on a 100-horsepower PWC emits the same pollution as driving 139,000 miles in a 1998 passenger car.

2 hours = 3 gallons into water = 8 dollars into the water.
Or
2 hours = 140,000 pollution miles in a car.

PWCs have twice the hourly annual usage rate of other water vessels, double the load factor (rpm, pay load, etc.), and significantly more horsepower than a typical two-stroke outboard. For these reasons, PWCs emit eight times more pollution than equivalent motorboats.

The California Air Resources Board reports that a two-hour ride on a 100-horsepower PWC emits the same pollution as driving 139,000 miles in a 1998 passenger car- so shocking a statistic that I used it twice. The PWC industry counters that the EPA data include older, less efficient PWCs and almost all 1998 models meet new hydrocarbon and oxides of nitrogen emission standards. It will be many years, however, before the older models are no longer used.

SOURCE: http://www.nps.gov/caha/determin.htm

(this is a response to some idiot)

Nothing, I repeat, NOTHING pisses me off more than a goddamn self-righteous person who thinks people are being self rightous when they are simply responding to the ENTIRE WORLD NOT BEING Atheist. They are trapped in the same goddamn arrogant bullshit behavior that fundamentalist wackos perform. Where have I heard this before? I’ve got deja vu!

All you’ll hear from the self-righteous arsehole (not a better word than “asshole”, mind you) atheists are “haha, I am so much more superior than you because my science is right and you are wrong, therefore I am a superior human being in every possible fashion.”

That is your opinion. However, I believe you have started shouting matches with people like you are doing here. And you have never questioned your own belief system so it scares you that when you die, there may not be 73 Virgins waiting for you in the Eternal Bliss. “I love the leader” too, my dim witted friend…..

All I ask is for evidence. I will not believe, I want to KNOW.

Now they don’t exactly say that, but their behaviour is evident of it.

Can you read what you type? The religious world is nuts! “Be like us or go to hell! It’s worse if you do naughty things! We concern ourselves with YOUR life, YOUR private life and spread guilt as far as we can!!! Ha ha ha ha ha!”

Ever met a humble atheist?

Ever met a religious person who wasn’t trying to convince you that he or she was saved and you were gonna burn in hell?

Someone who doesn’t laugh or make fun of the god-fearing fundies out there? Nup. I haven’t.

I can’t even begin to tell you what’s wrong with that. First of all, if you are a fundamentalist then you have already locked out the possibilities that others may be right, and that god does not exist. People actually do this- they make up their minds without seeing the evidence at all. Would you do this at a grocery store? Would you “make up what you believed they sold” and then demand that they give it to you?

They are only a small minority. For the most part atheist-types are arrogant sons of bitches who feel a sense of superiority when putting down a religious person.

You must have met an awful lot of atheists to say “for the most part.” Hmm. Maybe you have trouble with “evidence.”

But, I am an Atheist (Agnostic- if you prefer the more precise devfinition.) I have not made up my mind because I believe the jury is out.

All I ask is for evidence. I will not believe, I want to KNOW. If god exists, great! I’ll believe, but everyone’s gotta back off- stop pushing your beliefs on everyone else.

I gotta ask the people in the middle east if they are happier now- Did they willingly trade their belief against a cartoon of their deity for the mass stampede which killed 10 people and the mob that burned out those buildings with such anger and violence- just as ‘god’ wants?

But as of this day I might as well believe in anything-  flying purple monkeys on mars too.

And I hope we all find out someday and settle this stupid childish argument.

I’m simply saying I’m an arrogant mean overbearing ignorant coldhearted….

I just don’t care! http://embryo.soad.umich.edu/ leave me alone!