Dirty

Three and Only Three "Dirty Sources"

The Fossil Fuels: Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas. 

Wait a minute! Natural Gas (NG) is supposed to be the miracle fuel, the one that makes the USA energy independent. Sure, but since NG is mined and is a fossil fuel, burning it or anything derived from it adds to atmospheric CO₂.  listed in descending order:

1) Coal is almost pure carbon, it produces the most 44 units of CO₂ from each 12 units of Carbon with 32 units of Oxygen.

2) Oil is a heavy hydrocarbon, it burns to a mix of CO₂ & H₂O somewhere between #1 Coal (above) and #3 NG (below).

3) NG also burns to 44 units of CO₂ and 36 units of H₂O for every 16 units of CH₄ plus 64 units of O₂ from the air.

This is the CO₂ that the Global Warming alarmists have been tracking since the dawn of the industrial revolution in the mid 19th century.

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