Don’t Blame Me

Don’t Blame Me

Hello 93636,

The EPA recently announced that by 2021, all cars and light duty trucks sold in the U.S. must use a Global Warming Potential (GWP) refrigerant below 150. The new refrigerant is designed to reduce CO2 in the earth’s atmosphere and slow global warming according to global warming scientists. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assigned the new R-1234yf refrigerant a GWP value of “4” while the automotive refrigerant used since 1994 (R-134A) was assigned a GWP value of 1,430.

The EPA’s objective is to have the U.S. vehicle fleet not only equipped with R-1234yf for environmental reasons, but maintained with it as well. The R-1234yf systems have a very low capacity and are equipped with super-sealing connectors to prevent leaking. Loss of just a few ounces can reduce performance noticeably. The R-1234yf systems will contain between 8-16 ounces of refrigerant at $200 per pound to service them.

An EPA spokesperson went on record saying, “If a professional technician knowingly installs R-134A into a R-1234yf system, that would constitute tampering with an emission control system and would be an obvious violation of the law.”

followed allowed other components of the refrigerant to form very toxic substances.

Sometimes the situations we allow ourselves to be forced into to save Mother Earth are just plan ridiculous, potentially hazardous and dangerous. The earth’s atmosphere contains about 78 percent nitrogen, 21 percent oxygen and 1 percent everything else. CO2 is about .036 of the 1 percent of everything else. The CO2 content in the earth’s atmosphere would need to increase by 27 times its present value to become just 1 percent of the earth’s atmosphere. CO2 is what we humans exhale and is absolutely essential for green plants and certain other organisms to synthesize carbohydrates. The byproduct of that process is oxygen. CO2 is NOT a hazardous emission. The modern vehicle primarily exhausts CO2 and H2O vapor.

Climate reconstruction models show concentrations of CO2 in the earth’s atmosphere have varied from about 17.5 times greater than present day amounts 500 million years ago, to about 2.2 times less than present day amounts 2 million years ago. If you are inclined to believe in climate modeling data, the data indicates the earth goes through natural cycles not caused by humans. According to evolution, Australopithecines (Lucy) didn’t appear on earth until about 1/2 million years later.

Since the Industrial Revolution (1740-1860) life expectancy in the United States has changed dramatically from 25 years in the 1800s to 50 years in the 1900s to today’s mean life span of about 75 years. Seems to me the industrial revolutionand advancements in technology since have INCREASED quantity of life by increasing QUALITY of life.

God Bless 93636
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