Recent studies seem to generally agree that a plane isn’t necessarily the most polluting means of transportation. That’s why it’s also being said a car pollutes just as much, and often even more than a plane over equivalent distances. For example, a study by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute states the energy intensity of car transportation is on average 57% higher than air transports. In other words, a car emits more CO2 than the average planes because they consume more energy to transport the same number of passengers.
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Originally Posted by BMC123
The way things are going, I say drive them all now while you still can...
It will not be long before the "powers that be" will start hitting us motorists hard again, more so those with big engines. I really get annoyed about that, as it is already well known that aircraft emit more "greenhouse gas" than cars, and they are only starting to notice them now.
I am lucky enough to have driven a number of nice cars in my life, but there are a number out there that I would like to drive before I shuffle off this mortal coil, and i am bleedin well going to make sure that i do
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