[Vwdiesel] negative aspects of burning water

[LBaird119 at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/14/2007 5:03:49 AM Pacific Daylight Time, rjs at bnl.gov 
writes:

> At least an electric car uses less fossil fuel per mile than a fossil 
> fueled 
> internal combustion vehicle (even if we produced all of our electricity from 
> 
> fossil fuels) because our large scale electric generation and transmission 
> system is more efficient than our cars.
> 

  I wish I could find the article but European Car (back when 
they had good articles) had one on a Saab.  The tailpipe 
emissions were actually cleaner than the ambient air (at least 
of the elements they were testing for.)  The conclusion was 
that a conventional gas engine could easily be more efficient 
than a power plant at converting fossil fuel to motive power 
with less pollution.
  There was also an older Car Craft article where they managed 
to fairly simply get a pro-street car to have better emissions 
than it needed to pass (by a HUGE amount) but because of the 
visual part of the inspection it failed to pass even though it had 
better emissions than most new cars.
  It's not REALLY about "saving the planet."
     Loren


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