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In Washington, an atrocious omnibus transportation bill has been proposed, and one of the trivial but dumb provisions is a bicycle tax to pay contribute to the transportation budget. (See Ben Scheindelman here).

A Washington bike shop owner expresses his understandable concern about this provision, noting that (in addition to the harm to Washington businesses selling bikes) this is a poor idea because it disincentivizes an environmentally friendly form of transportation.

Bike Tax supporter Ed Orcutt (R-Kalama) explains why this assumption is not accurate:

"You claim that it is environmentally friendly to ride a bike. But if I am not mistaken, a cyclists has an increased heart rate and respiration. That means that the act of riding a bike results in greater emissions of carbon dioxide from the rider. Since CO2 is deemed to be a greenhouse gas and a pollutant, bicyclists are actually polluting when they ride."



Tellya what. I'll get on an exercise bike in a closed room and pedal for a few hours and you get in a car in a closed garage and run the engine for a few hours and well see who walks away.

bet he's a Republican.. increased exercise bicycling should create a healthier individual, not a polluter

So much for anti-tax republicans.

Finding the dumbest thing a politician ever said is comparable to finding a needle in a haystack.

Finding the dumbest thing a politician ever said is comparable to finding a needle in a haystack.

That comment was closer in analogy to finding a sword in a haystack, but whatever

In Washington, an atrocious omnibus transportation bill has been proposed, and one of the trivial but dumb provisions is a bicycle tax to pay contribute to the transportation budget. (See Ben Scheindelman here).

A Washington bike shop owner expresses his understandable concern about this provision, noting that (in addition to the harm to Washington businesses selling bikes) this is a poor idea because it disincentivizes an environmentally friendly form of transportation.

Bike Tax supporter Ed Orcutt (R-Kalama) explains why this assumption is not accurate:

"You claim that it is environmentally friendly to ride a bike. But if I am not mistaken, a cyclists has an increased heart rate and respiration. That means that the act of riding a bike results in greater emissions of carbon dioxide from the rider. Since CO2 is deemed to be a greenhouse gas and a pollutant, bicyclists are actually polluting when they ride."



Tellya what. I'll get on an exercise bike in a closed room and pedal for a few hours and you get in a car in a closed garage and run the engine for a few hours and well see who walks away.

Cars create CO, carbon monoxide. People create CO2 carbon dioxide. Cows create carbon dioxide and copious amounts of methane gas.

Next some one with your political thinking will outlaw all people and or at the very least any food source that contributes to global warming.

Why are you bringing this up when you are having such a tough time keeping your earth science correct. You must be watching way to much main stream media. I bet you believe the big 0 is gonna give everyone a billion dollars...

Keep the treasury presses running and he will be able too.

The sound politicians make when you drag them screaming to the scaffold is noise pollution no doubt.

But to some ears, it is sweet music!

Talbot

Finding the dumbest thing a politician ever said is comparable to finding a needle in a haystack.

That comment was closer in analogy to finding a sword in a haystack, but whatever

Kramer,

I was referring to the fact that sooooooo many politicians say soooooooo many stupid things that it would be near impossible to find the stupidest remark made. Every time one of those idiots opens their mouth something stupid falls out. Reed, Polosi, BO,Biden..... just to name a few. Ever noticed how turds always find their way to the top of the toilet bowel. Washington is nothing but the nations toilet bowel.

In Washington, an atrocious omnibus transportation bill has been proposed, and one of the trivial but dumb provisions is a bicycle tax to pay contribute to the transportation budget. (See Ben Scheindelman here).

A Washington bike shop owner expresses his understandable concern about this provision, noting that (in addition to the harm to Washington businesses selling bikes) this is a poor idea because it disincentivizes an environmentally friendly form of transportation.

Bike Tax supporter Ed Orcutt (R-Kalama) explains why this assumption is not accurate:

"You claim that it is environmentally friendly to ride a bike. But if I am not mistaken, a cyclists has an increased heart rate and respiration. That means that the act of riding a bike results in greater emissions of carbon dioxide from the rider. Since CO2 is deemed to be a greenhouse gas and a pollutant, bicyclists are actually polluting when they ride."



Tellya what. I'll get on an exercise bike in a closed room and pedal for a few hours and you get in a car in a closed garage and run the engine for a few hours and well see who walks away.

Ditto That! But I have to wonder if that congressman wasnt just being fececious as helll

Cars create CO, carbon monoxide. People create CO2 carbon dioxide. Cows create carbon dioxide and copious amounts of methane gas.

Next some one with your political thinking will outlaw all people and or at the very least any food source that contributes to global warming.

Why are you bringing this up when you are having such a tough time keeping your earth science correct. You must be watching way to much main stream media. I bet you believe the big 0 is gonna give everyone a billion dollars...

Keep the treasury presses running and he will be able too.

Ummm. WHAT?

I'm not sure if you just went on a tangent that is severely off-topic, or if this is your way of debating the original point, but if you want to accept my challenge about sitting in a garage, I'd be happy to go forward with that.

If you are suggesting that a giant SUV is somehow on any level more environmentally friendly than riding a bike to an equal destination, well.. I just don't know what to tell you, but you accusing me of having no idea how that works just clouds the issue.

We're not talking about cows or dollars. We're talking about better ways to be environmentally friendly and how dumbass politicians twist everything to bend to their corporate sponsors' wills.

Funny thing is, that if a democrat said it, you would be all over it mocking democrats and being all smug about it.

And that's the difference between you and I.. I will mock them regardless of their party, but you will only mock the dems. Your partisanship politics is blinding your judgement and you are making a fool of yourself.