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Originally Posted by PJMac
I really don't believe life is that simple. The only way this could be correct is if the golf cart used a catalytic converter and other pollution mitigation devices like your car has.
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Interesting. It turns out you might be right.
Not only would burning more fuel release more carbon, the use of a catalytic converter would seem to increase the amount of CO2. One of the purposes of the catalytic converter is to convert CO to CO2. CO2 is listed as a greenhouse gas while CO is not; perhaps that is because CO has already been controlled through the use of converters. In any case, while the amount of carbon released by burning a gallon of gas is the same regardless of how it is burned, the use of a catalytic converter appears to increase the amount of CO2 produced.
Do you have data showing something different? Do you have data showing a less efficient engine burning more fuel with an attachment in place to increase the amount of CO2 would still produce less pollution?
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