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Old 11-27-2013, 08:28 PM
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Originally Posted by jimbo2012 View Post
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
Well then, guess that's a good thing. More CO2 for the plants = more oxygen for us.
carbon dioxide + water =light energy=> glucose + oxygen
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