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Date Posted: 11:29:39 04/10/07 Tue In reply to: Bev 's message, "It appears motor cycles pollute more per mile than many other vehicles" on 10:31:13 04/10/07 Tue 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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| Re: It appears motor cycles pollute more per mile than many other vehicles | Duncan7 | 22:04:49 04/10/07 Tue |
| We used to have some little honda trail bikes . | Bev | 10:18:32 04/11/07 Wed |