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US politician says bikes cause pollution

Posted: 05 Mar 2013, 14:00
by simon.sharwood
http://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2013/03/ ... -be-taxed/
For those who need to vent their spleens. :D

Re: US politician says bikes cause pollution

Posted: 05 Mar 2013, 14:03
by Lizanne
i've been banging my head on my desk about this all day. even reading the comments makes my head hurt

Re: US politician says bikes cause pollution

Posted: 05 Mar 2013, 14:10
by JoTheBuilder
One of the off shoot articles was pretty interesting (more interesting than the ignorant politician anyway):

http://bikeportland.org/2011/12/12/new- ... odes-63536

Re: US politician says bikes cause pollution

Posted: 05 Mar 2013, 14:14
by marc2131
Hey, I agree with 'Representative Ed Orcutt' (R – Kalama).
See myself as an old model 4WD. Guzzling wheatbix's and smokin' to Waterfall.

Re: US politician says bikes cause pollution

Posted: 05 Mar 2013, 15:51
by Karzie
Hey, I agree with 'Representative Ed Orcutt' (R – Kalama).
See myself as an old model 4WD. Guzzling wheatbix's and smokin' to Waterfall.
Don't forget the huge methane production too...

Re: US politician says bikes cause pollution

Posted: 05 Mar 2013, 16:29
by marc2131
I am sure Mr Ed probably takes lots of things literally.
IQ does not equate high public office.
Imagine the idiots who vote for people like this.

Re: US politician says bikes cause pollution

Posted: 05 Mar 2013, 16:39
by Anthony K
I actually think it is quite a grovelling apology for a politician. Clearly even he could see the stupidity of what he had said earlier.

Re: US politician says bikes cause pollution

Posted: 05 Mar 2013, 22:06
by James Rogers
http://cozybeehive.blogspot.se/2010/03/ ... e.html?m=1

How much CO2 do you exhale while cycling...? (Note it is from 2010, and doesn't count all the heavy breathing since...)

Re: US politician says bikes cause pollution

Posted: 05 Mar 2013, 22:16
by mikesbytes
Isn't the reason that bikes are bad for the environment is because the cause the 4WD's to slow down and then accelerate as they pass consuming additional fossil fuels

Re: US politician says bikes cause pollution

Posted: 06 Mar 2013, 06:12
by Philip
What, a republican admitting that excess CO2 in the atmosphere is a problem, and that it's a man made problem. Surely that alone is enough to get him kicked out of the party! .