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Originally Posted by jimbo2012
In researching TV and deciding to move here later this year I was bit surprised to see what in my opinion is the disregard of folks driving gas powered golf carts around town.
Of the 50,000+ carts there are approximately half gas/elec.
I researched a bit as what the exhaust gases are contributing to the air you breathe.
In 2004 Princeton University reported on the possibility of reducing the amount of gas emissions from the University fleet. A total of 92 golf carts. on campus provided the largest amount of harmful emissions - carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and other gases.
Not to post a bunch of calculations and bore you with numbers but 1 gas cart produces about the same emissions as 6 Ford Taurus'
In 2010 Go Green College, calculated based on their 100 carts half gas half elec the following;
50 gas carts generates 161,200 pounds of CO2 a year!
50 electric powered carts generates only 41,700 pounds of CO2 a year!
So about 4 times the about.
So here 25,000 gas carts produce 500 times that amount or 80 million pounds of CO2 a year!
Did I do that math right? 80 million lbs
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What about all the exhaust from the lawn mowers, edgers, and leaf blowers used in TV? Aren't they worse polluters than gas golf carts?
Pehaps a new business start-up could cut lawns with an old fashioned people-powered reel mower and rake lawns and sweep driveways and walkways? They could also compost the clippings and leaves.
Of course the price for all that manual labor would be quite high compared to the way it is being done now, but there may be a business opportunity catrering to those who are concerned about their carbon footprint.