Rob Keeble
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I think these types of vehicles need all the support they can get. Kudos to your son Frank.
I know we all think of our pockets but something you might want to consider is the combustion engine is a heavy user of oxygen and "breaths" one heck of a lot more of it than we do when its running.
Then consider that in 1992 i went to China on honeymoon and there were very few cars and 6 million bicycles in Beijing. Today that trend has completely reversed and there are millions and millions of new cars and more each day. This is not a case of dealing with a existing population of vehicles on the planet that are being turned over as we buy replacements. Its in addition to the population of vehicles that existed. As more and more wealth comes to populations of the size of India and China and they add more and more cars its simple math that on the other end of the scale we taking away the oxygen produces in the trees.
http://wardsauto.com/ar/world_vehicle_population_110815
Check out the spreadsheet there is link to half way down the article. It gives totals and growth rates for each country. China now has 34 million cars on the road.
Just do the math on that engine populations consumption of oxygen per day.
I aint a greeny heck i drive a Hemi V8 5.7l and love it, but i dont see that combustion engines are sustainable regardless of emission standards and fuel prices.
Roll on soylent green.
I know we all think of our pockets but something you might want to consider is the combustion engine is a heavy user of oxygen and "breaths" one heck of a lot more of it than we do when its running.
Then consider that in 1992 i went to China on honeymoon and there were very few cars and 6 million bicycles in Beijing. Today that trend has completely reversed and there are millions and millions of new cars and more each day. This is not a case of dealing with a existing population of vehicles on the planet that are being turned over as we buy replacements. Its in addition to the population of vehicles that existed. As more and more wealth comes to populations of the size of India and China and they add more and more cars its simple math that on the other end of the scale we taking away the oxygen produces in the trees.
http://wardsauto.com/ar/world_vehicle_population_110815
Check out the spreadsheet there is link to half way down the article. It gives totals and growth rates for each country. China now has 34 million cars on the road.
Just do the math on that engine populations consumption of oxygen per day.
I aint a greeny heck i drive a Hemi V8 5.7l and love it, but i dont see that combustion engines are sustainable regardless of emission standards and fuel prices.
Roll on soylent green.
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