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| Subject: It appears motor cycles pollute more per mile than many other vehicles | |
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Author: Bev |
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Date Posted: 10:31:13 04/10/07 Tue 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. http://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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| Re: It appears motor cycles pollute more per mile than many other vehicles | Oropan | 11:29:39 04/10/07 Tue |
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