| I am writing in response to the Oregonian's report on | | | | addiction to modern conveniences, since, lets face it, |
| global warming, I am concerned, as many are, at the | | | | nobody here wants to live like those in third world |
| prospect of closing Hwy 35, or any highway, because | | | | countries. But we have to realize that global warming |
| of global warming. Fellow Americans, I urge you to | | | | is to the point of destroying our earth, so we must |
| take action wherever you can to at least slow this | | | | find alternatives. We DO have an alternative, one |
| down. In this article I would like to go over the | | | | that those that have made money selling gasoline |
| causes of global warming, and how you may help | | | | and petroleum products, have managed to stifle. This |
| fight this very real threat to humanity. | | | | alternative will not only help prevent global warming, |
| According to the Oregonian newspaper, the root | | | | but I believe it will help to reverse it, because it |
| cause of global warming, whether you live in Oregon | | | | actually cleans the air! |
| or the Orient, is excessive carbon dioxide in our | | | | I am fortunate enough to have been exposed to this |
| atmosphere. Carbon dioxide is literally emitted by us | | | | technology earlier than most, because I have a friend |
| daily as we breathe, as you may well know. It is also | | | | who was married to someone who invented a way |
| emitted from daily activities such as when we cook, | | | | to bypass the gasoline tank, and run his car on water. |
| do our laundry, and take our showers. But most of | | | | At that time, he was shot at, and his car was |
| all, global warming gases are emitted when we drive | | | | destroyed. This incident happened about 20 years |
| our vehicles. | | | | ago. Intimidation from big oil is why there is no patent |
| In the Oregonian's global warming report, the average | | | | on such a system. Here is where we have come to |
| Portland area family of 3 with 2 automobiles (05 | | | | gain hope concerning global warming. We have come |
| Subaru Outback at 12,500 miles per year, and a '98 | | | | to know of a scientist who has written a manual on |
| Ford Taurus at 6,000 miles per year) emitted 42,949 | | | | how to build a fuel system that will run a vehicle |
| lbs of carbon dioxide annually. 24,884 of those | | | | using water. He is almost giving this technology away, |
| pounds were from the automobiles! These figures | | | | knowing that the more people that start using it, the |
| are startling, since I have to admit, we drive more | | | | less anyone will be able to do to stop this wonderful |
| than the 18,500 miles represented above, and I | | | | invention from being used. This one powerful idea |
| thought the newer vehicles would emit less global | | | | would slow and possibly reverse our current descent |
| warming carbon dioxide, but these facts don't | | | | into global warming. I nominate him for the Nobel |
| encourage me. | | | | Prize! |
| Another major contributor to global warming are | | | | What I propose to slow global warming will cost you |
| airplanes and jets. For a family of three to fly round | | | | the price of the manual and a trip to the mechanic. |
| trip from Portland to Disney World in Orlando, FL, 5 | | | | But it will save you whatever you spend on gas, (isn't |
| tons of carbon dioxide (10,000 pounds!) are created | | | | that huge?!) and more than cut in half the amount of |
| and released, according to the US. Department of | | | | carbon dioxide a family of 3 puts into our |
| Energy. The carbon dioxide that we create ( I hate | | | | atmosphere. I say more than cut in half, because this |
| to use the word 'create' for something so | | | | system releases the oxygen out of the water (the |
| destructive!) in 11 hours, takes five residents of India, | | | | hydrogen is burned), back into the atmosphere! Fresh |
| or nearly 3 Brazilians an entire year to generate! | | | | air in the cities? Can you imagine? Save money and |
| I was harshly reminded of the seriousness of global | | | | slow global warming? |
| warming when I read a few days ago that they | | | | I urge everyone to look into this invention. I have |
| might close Hwy 35, due to a glacier on Mt. Hood | | | | written this article earlier than I intended, stirred by |
| melting. Exposed sand and rocks that were under the | | | | Hwy 35 being destroyed due to global warming. I |
| ice came crashing onto the highway and spilled into | | | | have not installed the fuel conversion system yet, |
| White River causing the river to change course and | | | | however, I have the manual, and my husband, who |
| about 10 miles of road to become buried under | | | | knows a thing or two about mechanics, thinks its |
| millions of cubic yards of rock! If global warming | | | | ingenious, and this is definitely his winter project to |
| continues, with glaciers and polar ice caps melting, | | | | reduce global warming. Wouldn't it speak volumes to |
| coastal cities will be gone, including New York. I am | | | | our world community if the country who bears the |
| quickly abandoning my apathy about global warming! | | | | greatest responsibility for global warming, has now |
| Britain has recently released a 700 page report to | | | | taken such a drastic step toward the cure? |
| world superpowers saying there is no future without | | | | To our children's future. |
| quick action! I am amazed but understand our | | | | |