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Originally Posted by jimbo2012
I researched a bit as what the exhaust gases are contributing to the air you breathe.
Princeton University reported on the possibility of reducing the amount of gas emissions from the University fleet. A total of 92 gas 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'
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!
80 million lbs
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So the bottom line is, Jimbo, they BOTH put out a helluva lot of carbon. When one considers the deafening, filthy trains crisscrossing this country to provide coal which has scarred the earth in it's removal for the production of electricity; the precious resource of water that is constantly needed to keep refilling batteries on a daily basis; disposal of the numerous dead batteries per electric cart with acid in them which require special handling and additional resources, there is no win-win with the environment even with electric.
DRIVE WHICHEVER TYPE CART YOU PREFER BECAUSE UNLESS YOU'RE RIDING A BICYCLE, YOU ARE HARMING THE ENVIRONMENT!
This is the same dumb argument over and over and over and over. DRIVE WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY!
