Trivia for enviro minded folks!
By raydene
@raydene (9871)
United States
May 14, 2008 8:40am CST
Quote from Ideal Bites
"If 10,000 NY Biters take a 20-block pedicab
ride instead of a taxi once a week for a year,
we'll keep the weight of over 3,000 cyclists
in CO2 from wheeling into the air."
Now what does that mean?
Can you transulate that?
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1 response
@newtondak (3946)
• United States
14 May 08
Sounds like someone was trying to fill their word count on a writing site!
Im assuming a pedicab is something that carries passengers but doesn't have an engine - maybe like a rickshaw? I think they're saying that we'd eliminate an amount of carbon dioxide equivalent to the accumulative weight of the 3,000 cyclists from being emitted into the air.
I'm not really seeing what they're saying as being a beneficial thing - the cyclists are not using gas or emitting carbon monoxide into the air - they are emitting what people do when they breathe - carbon dioxide.
Since plants use carbon dioxide - I don't see why that would be a problem.
