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Similarly, burning a gallon of gasoline emits about 20 pounds of CO2. (2.3 kg/l). So daily human exhalations are equivalent to driving a couple of miles or
by bryanlarsen 1y ago
Similarly, burning a gallon of gasoline emits about 20 pounds of CO2. (2.3 kg/l). So daily human exhalations are equivalent to driving a couple of miles or so.
- jp57 1y agoTrue, but the gasoline is carbon taken from the air millions of years ago and sequestered underground and now being returned to the air, while the carbon I breathe out was all taken from the air by plants comparatively recently.
- bryanlarsen 1y agoThere was lots of diesel burned planting, harvesting and transporting those plants. Producing fertilizer also emits a lot of CO2.
- jp57 1y agoBut none of that carbon comes out in my breath.