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Forum Post: Sweeping Change starts here. https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/fb/petition/petition/force-industry-implementing-hydrogen-fuel-technology/Pqd8bP9q Show solidarity go on record.

Posted 12 years ago on Dec. 5, 2011, 10:43 a.m. EST by DKAtoday (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN
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https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/fb/petition/petition/force-industry-implementing-hydrogen-fuel-technology/Pqd8bP9q

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[-] 1 points by 1169 (204) 12 years ago

im having trouble getting petition. When I try I get blank were it should be..

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[-] 0 points by DKAtoday (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN 12 years ago

Environmental impact from Catalytic converters

Catalytic converters have proven to be reliable and effective in reducing noxious tailpipe emissions. However, they may have some adverse environmental impacts in use:

The requirement for an internal combustion engine equipped with a three-way catalyst to run at the stoichiometric point means it is less efficient than if it were operated lean. Thus, there is an increases the amount of fossil fuel consumed and the carbon-dioxide emissions from the vehicle. However, NOx control on lean-burn engines is problematic and requires special lean NOx catalysts to meet U.S. emissions regulations.[citation needed]
Although catalytic converters are effective at removing hydrocarbons and other harmful emissions, they do not solve the fundamental problem created by burning a fossil fuel. In addition to water, the main combustion product in exhaust gas leaving the engine — through a catalytic converter or not — is carbon dioxide (CO2).[16] Carbon dioxide produced from fossil fuels is one of the greenhouse gases indicated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to be a "most likely" cause of global warming.[17] Additionally, the U.S. EPA has stated catalytic converters are a significant and growing cause of global warming, because of their release of nitrous oxide (N2O), a greenhouse gas over three hundred times more potent than carbon dioxide.[18]
Catalytic converter production requires palladium or platinum; part of the world supply of these precious metals is produced near Norilsk, Russia, where the industry (among others) has caused Norilsk to be added to Time magazine's list of most-polluted places.[19]

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/fb/petition/petition/force-industry-implementing-hydrogen-fuel-technology/Pqd8bP9q

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[-] 0 points by DKAtoday (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN 12 years ago

Do you want clean air??? Do you want to make a major reduction to pollution?? Do you want abundant fuel at reasonable price?????

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/fb/petition/petition/force-industry-implementing-hydrogen-fuel-technology/Pqd8bP9q

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[-] 0 points by DKAtoday (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN 12 years ago

Be Courageous!!! Sign every demand for positive change! Support every demand for positive change!

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[-] 0 points by DKAtoday (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN 12 years ago

Government Watch-List.

Is that what your afraid of??? Is that why you won't sign a petition for Change?

Relax sign the petition. By being on this web site your already on a government watch list. Make your time spent positive!

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[-] 0 points by DKAtoday (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN 12 years ago

Nothing to lose and everything to gain. Sign-up, sign-on.

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