[Healeys] Mark This Day -- Gasoline

[Rick Neville]

Michael,

According to this month's Wired magazine:

"Making a Prius consumes 113 million BTUs,
according to sustainability engineer Pablo Pdster. A single gallon of
gas contains about 113,000 Btus, so Toyota's green wonder guzzles the
equivalent of 1,000 gallons before it clocks its first mile. A used
car, on the other hand, starts with a significant advantage: The first
owner has already paid off its carbon debt. Buy a decade-old Toyota
Tercel, which gets a respectable 35 mpg, and the Prius will have to
drive 100,000 miles to catch up."   http://tinyurl.com/5ys4e4 

I have this article taped to the dashboard of the '96 Chevy Caprice with LT1
motor I bought last year.

HR



--- On Sun, 5/25/08, Michael Salter <msalter at precisionsportscar.com>
wrote:
From: Michael Salter <msalter at precisionsportscar.com>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Mark This Day -- Gasoline
To: healeys at autox.team.net
Date: Sunday, May 25, 2008, 4:36 PM

 If we could make cars last longer just how
much energy would we save.
To get the ball rolling I figure that an "average" North American car
probably burns about 6800 US gallons of fuel in its "average" 150K
mile
lifetime. But how many equivalent gallons has the manufacturing of that car
consumed before it is driven off the showroom floor?
Just curious.

Michael Salter
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