[DeTomaso] Smog law change for pre-1976 Panteras

[Ron Graves]

The carbon in the fuel combines with oxygen from the air.  Hence a gallon of gasoline burns to make about  20 # of CO2.   see http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/co2.shtml
ron

---- tony DiGiovanna <tonydigi at optonline.net> wrote: 
> Uh, how does one figure the car produces 12 tons of CO2 a year?  Seems to me
> it eats only around 3 tons of gasoline?  12000 miles / 12 miles per gallon X
> 6 lbs per gallon = 6000 lbs of fuel.
> 
> The engine can not create mass.
> 
> Are we now tagging the car for all the CO2 created by GM to make the car and
> Shell Oil to make the gasoline?  Might as well throw in all the CO2 exhaled
> by all the employees of the companies involved.  While we're at it, lets
> count all of the CO2 inhaled by the car from the air.
> 
> Hmm.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com
> [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com]On Behalf Of Mark McWhinney
> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 1:17 AM
> To: detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: [DeTomaso] Smog law change for pre-1976 Panteras
> 
> 
> 
> California State Senator Dean Florez (Democrat) has introduced legislation
> that would force all pre-1976 cars in California's Central Valley to get
> smog tested for life.  Please let him know what you think.
> 
> http://www.semasan.com/main/main.aspx?id=62398
> 
> 
> BTW, Senator Florez drives a tax-payer support GMC Yukon which gets 12-14
> MPG and produces about 12 tons of C02 per year.  By comparison, Panteras, if
> driven as regular commuter cars, would produce around 8 tons per year
> assuming 18 MPG.
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/2bo3cr
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