Because if we don't the amount of garbage in the air would make life intolerable, Since we increased stadards for emissions the air here has gotten cleaner, more breathable, and yet we still have to have clean air days.

the problem is the consideration of CO2 as pollution. We HUMANS emit CO2 after breathing in O2. It is harmless to us in the atmosphere.

Well, actually that was one problem, the other is having each state have their own emission standards.

or requiring farmers mount a catalytic convertor on a cows butt.

Now don't get me wrong... REAL pollutants like LEAD should be eliminated from oil... we should 0% lead gas and other such nasty pollutants should be gone too.

thats to save money actually. Convert it to gas and its worth more money than it did as food.

there is more than enough FOOD to feed everyone in the world many times over. MOST of the food grown in the USA is left to rot in the fields (its actually a protective deal, the government subsidizes farmers to grow more than they can sell for cases of emergency, like war or natural disasters), but to get food to everyone in the world you need to package and ship it. which means manpower (aka money), and fuel... so converting otherwise worthless food into fuel producing more money and gas should help reduce world hunger, not exacerbate it.

There are no starving in the USA, all the homeless in the USA are homeless by choice (usually because they think the government is out to get them or because they ran away from home)... but there ARE a ton of real problem that need to be addressed in the united states. Still I was not suggesting that we go feeding the world. Instead I was pointing out that the "pointless destruction of food (that could feed the starving) for fuel" is not so pointless, and in fact would contribute to feeding the starving more than leaving it as food.

I can see wanting to reduce the production of certain pollutants, such as the aforementioned lead, but CO2 isn't an issue.  CO2 in the atmosphere doesn't kill people, it actually saves lives by reducing the chances of a wildfire.  California of all states should know that, and know that global warming has yet to kill anyone.  More people die in cold winters than hot summers.

So my opinion is that if they're after lower CO2 emissions, forget it.  Go for other things that actually pose health problems.

As for the automotive industry struggling to keep up with said new regulations, do you really think they're going to stay afloat much longer anyway?  It would just be the proverbial nail in the coffin, and then at least someone in Congress might realize that giving our money to them isn't helping.

Oh, and I agree with Watertown that ethanol is a hopeless waste of food.  Do you know how much corn is required to make a gallon of ethanol?  It is physically impossible for the US to grow enough corn to rid us of the need for foreign oil - the main reason we started making ethanol in the first place.  Not only is it a waste of food, but a waste of land that could be put to better use.

I consider being CRAZY a choice. But maybe I am wrong. The medication for mental disorders are extremely primitive, based on experimentation with not clue as to HOW or WHY it works, and is typically geared towards suppressing the symptoms (chemical lobotomy) even while worsening the situation. The psychiatric industry is a sham.

As for the starving, are you truely that ignorant? Nobody starves in the united states, fuck nobody is even turned away at the hospital! You can walk into any walmart / whatever and have a full meal just on the free samples, but regardless, if you that poor you WILL get food coupons. Of course, then there is the issue of dad trading his food coupons for half their worth in cigarettes and beer... but thats not something that donations is going to solve.

I dont know about your walmarts but the ones we have here have very little sampling

We are not talking about hospitals.

How can you say there is no starving? Are you in fact stating there is no such thing in the US?

No %*(% I want to move there now!

Like i said though there are some that chose to be that way but I can promise you that alot dont.

Yes, its called the united states of america.

I'm not saying that anyone fully understands the brain but the medications are developed by people who have been spending a lot of their professional careers researching the brain.  Your argument that "most 'mental disorders' have nothing to do with brain chemistry" is just plain wrong.  In some cases research indicates that some disorders are caused by increased or decreased levels of certain brain chemicals like seritonin, in some cases its hormone related, and yes sometimes parasites can cause brain disorders.  Then there is some research that seems to indicate it could be an evolutionary mutation that has just gone wrong much the same way that sickle cell anemia developed to combat malaria.

I certainly am under no illusion that I understand what causes these mental disorders but I live with it every day and I definitely see the impact that the medications have so your original claims are completely and totally wrong.