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The grocery store is perhaps a mile away, and he perhaps goes twice a week? So that's 100 miles/year, two orders of magnitude away from the national average.
by fizx 14y ago
The grocery store is perhaps a mile away, and he perhaps goes twice a week? So that's 100 miles/year, two orders of magnitude away from the national average. It's also substantially less co2 production than a flight from SFO to Hawaii.
- revelation 14y agoCatalytic converters have a minutes long warm-up period beforce they approach a narrow interpretation of "effectiveness". Oh, and since we are talking about diesels, they produce diesel particulate matter, ultrafine particles that can cause anything from cancer to nausea. Even modern diesel engines can't completely filter them.
- lvs 14y agoIf your point is that it's possible to do things that produce more egregious emissions, that's obviously the case. But that doesn't really justify anything. Billions of people, each making what they consider to be minor environmental indiscretions, adds up -- if we can speak in general terms about the math for the time being.