Letter: Switched on to electric buses

Wednesday 06 July 1994 23:02 BST

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Sir: John Watson (letter, 4 July) misses the point about carbon dioxide emissions from cyclists. The 'greenhouse' threat is from the rapid release from fossil fuels of carbon accumulated by vegetation over many centuries.

A cyclist (unless he had coal for breakfast) is emitting atmospheric carbon only recently absorbed by plants, and which can be re-absorbed by other plants in a balanced natural cycle.

Yours faithfully,

RICHARD PHILPOTT

Nantwich, Cheshire

4 July

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