4 June 2013 - made of air

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2013 : 4 June 2013

Too Much Rock

Here is a question for everyone from Ohio. You are what you eat, namely air. Well, you eat animals and plants, which means ultimately plants, and plants are what they breathe, air. Does that make you feel a little differently about coal?

clue:

The big elements are carbon (from CO2 in the air), oxygen (from CO2 and O2 in the air and from water), nitrogen (fixed by microorganisms from the air and taken up by plants), and hydrogen (from water), and for land animals the water is available only because it gets into the air.

Ohio is a major coal producer and consumer and not a big natural gas producer, so it tends to politically support coal.

give me a clue so sweet and true