How many litres of petrol will result in one ton of carbon emission from an average 2 ltr family saloon?
Answer:
1 liter petrol releases about 2,5 kilo CO2 into the atmosphere so that will mean about 400 litres for 1 ton of carbon dioxide.
The reason that it becomes more of CO2 than petrol is that the petrol reacts with the oxygen and transforms into CO2.
You do realise that co2 emmisions do not cause global warming and are not a pollutant!! You, me, and all the plants, animals give off way more co2 than the miniscule amount cars & industry do. Go watch 'The great global warming swindle' and learn the facts
Good question Yummy, I'd like to know that one as well. Since my car is a 5.3 litre V12 should I be offering to take my neighbours Champagne bottles to the bottle bank as well?
Too much C02 is bad, whether you call it a polutant or not.
I think it's the long long list of stuff we put into the atmosphere that's the problem, not just C02. But people make more money polluting than not polluting, so ...
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