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Subject: Re: It appears motor cycles pollute more per mile than many other vehicles | |
Author: Duncan7 |
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Date Posted: 22:04:49 04/10/07 Tue In reply to: Oropan 's message, "Re: It appears motor cycles pollute more per mile than many other vehicles" on 11:29:39 04/10/07 Tue Good one. Not to mention as of this year there are more motorcycles produced with EFI and alot of pollution controls. Just more ignorance from the Queen liberal. >I used to have a motorscooter and it got over 100MPG. >I doubt there are any cars that get that kind of >mileage. So will someone tell me how a motorscooter >that burns one gallon of gas in over 100 miles is >putting more crap into the air than a car that burns a >gallon of gas in 30 or 40 miles. Is the burning more >complete in the car? And even if it is, you still have >to be producing more carbon. I guess we all need to >throw out our lawnmowers while we are at it. Any of >you people got hay fever?? >BTW, I always wondered how many tens of thousands of >acres of carbon eating green space is trampeled to >dirt by all those Seirra Klub members hiking around >the Wilderness. And that's not counting the millions >of trees that have to be cut to make the paper for all >the crap they send out to me in the form of action >alerts. > > > > > > > > >> I got this from another board. >> >>'Motorcycles: Green or Obscene?' - "Park that beast >>and buy a Ford Explorer for Gaia's sake!" >> In case you should be thinking what I was... >> >>I will need new wheels soon. I was considering a >>motorcycle for gas mileage reasons, but no more. Not >>only do they do a relatively poor job on that front >>but they are apparently big pollution machines, as >>well. >> >>No bike for me. >> >> >>href="http://www.evworld.com/article.cfm?storyid=260"> >h >>ttp://www.evworld.com/article.cfm?storyid=260 >> >>Finally, after several exchanges with the EPA, I was >>contacted by someone who knew the answers. His name is >>Robert French. He works in the EPA. Rob confirmed my >>worst fears about motorcycle emissions. The statistics >>he provided are somewhat daunting for a layman, and he >>hastens to caution that the information he shares is >>not official EPAspeak. In short, he told me that, "In >>fact, motorcycles produce more harmful emissions than >>driving a car, or even a large SUV." >> >>I asked Robert to compare a motorcycle with the Hybrid >>Toyota Prius. He wrote:Consider that the cleanest >>motorcycles in the 2001 model year certified at a >>level of about 0.32 grams/mile of hydrocarbons on the >>Federal Test Procedure. On the exact same test >>procedure the Prius certified at a hydrocarbon level >>of 0.0024 grams/mile. The cleanest (highway) >>motorcycle is therefore more than 100 times dirtier >>than the Prius. Said another way, you could drive the >>Prius for more than 100 miles before you got to the >>same hydrocarbon levels the motorcycle would emit in >>only 1 mile of driving. >> >>There is a Prius parked in my driveway as I write. >>I've been driving it for two weeks now. Every time I >>see a person on a scooter or motorcycle now, I wonder >>if he thinks he is doing the environment a favor. I am >>tempted to shout the truth out the window to him, >>"Park that beast and buy a Ford Explorer for Gaia's >>sake!" >> >>What still amazes me is how hard it was to find out >>the dirty truth about the motorized two-wheeled world. >>While I hate to spoil anyone's fun, I think folks >>should know that motorcycles are not green machines, >>but are rather, for our environment, obscene machines [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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