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Carbon being released into the atmosphere is believed to be one of the main contributors to rapid climate change. Gasoline is a liquid of hydrogen and carbon. W

Carbon being released into the atmosphere is believed to be one of the main contributors to rapid climate change. Gasoline is a liquid of hydrogen and carbon. When it is burned, the carbon and hydrogens are broken apart and the carbon joins with oxygen and is then typically allowed to escape in to the atmosphere. This service is hauling around, presumably large amounts of, gasoline, likely using a hydro-carbon burning engine. Usually this gasoline is taken straight to large tanks where many vehicles may come to refill. With this service, much work must be done to move around the gasoline to the vehicles, wherever they might be. I want to know how much carbon is released into the atmosphere by this service over (or under) the current alternative.

ams6110 10y ago
Not enough to worry about, in the context of the total number of cars on the road.
- jsprogrammer 10y ago
  This service will not expand to all cars?
  - ams6110 10y ago
    No. It won't. A small minority of people will find a service like this valuable. Most people will continue to buy gas the way they do today, until and unless EVs really become practical.
    - astrodust 10y ago
      Then they'll pivot to running around charging cars.
astrodust 10y ago
> I want to know ... I want a pony. These numbers don't exist. Nobody computes them. If you want to try, knock yourself out. Now remember that a car doesn't magically get gas from a gas station, it has to drive there, it has to drive back. If this service uses some algorithm to actually drive less to deliver gas than people would independently doing the same thing it could be carbon positive. You'd have to run the numbers to find out.