ChasingCoral
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Really? Do we have to deal with those old tropes even here?There are over 6 billion of us exhaling CO2 continually, whether we have a car helping add to that total or not. A large number of us don't have a car helping add to the CO2 total at all, and we who are lucky enough to have one, use it for a fraction of the day.
First of all the average person exhales a bit over 2 pounds of CO2 daily. The average car about 20 pounds of CO2 per gallon. So daily a person is exhales the CO2 produced by burning 1/10th of a gallon of gas (ignoring the large amounts of CO2 produced by extracting and refining the oil, and shipping the gas -- not a trivial amount).
Where did your CO2 come from? Solar energy allowed plants to convert CO2 in the atmosphere to carbohydrates. It is recycled rapidly and does not contribute to climate change. It was recently CO2 and what you exhale will soon be used by plants again.There are over 6 billion of us exhaling CO2 continually, whether we have a car helping add to that total or not. A large number of us don't have a car helping add to the CO2 total at all, and we who are lucky enough to have one, use it for a fraction of the day.
Where did your ICE car's CO2 come from? The same photosynthesis hundreds of millions of years ago allowed plants to convert CO2 into carbohydrates. Only then it was followed by geological processes that converted those carbohydrates from plants and animals into oil and storage of that oil in the ground. The CO2 an ICE car belches out was CO2 in the atmosphere hundreds of millions of years ago when the world was a lot hotter than it is now. By burning that all of that oil (or coal, or petroleum gas) you are sending us right back into that hot, hot world of hundreds of millions of years ago.
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