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'Stuff' lives in unleaded petrol too. So what? Petrol is organic as well, hence organic chemistry. There are a many items that i would not want to cut myself on. My God, stuff lives in your blood... Now i wouldn't want to cut mys... oh.
We have a 2.5 ton turbo diesel landrover getting 10L/100km. I'm sure the toyota landcruisers etc are doing less damage with their 20L/100km petrol consumption. HA!
The current fad with manufacturers is to claim they're green, by trying to turn more combustion products into CO2 and water using a cat. Most combustion products are those anyway. Cat's IMHO are a waste of time. (i'll put my flak suit on now, having said that)
Of course, it doesn't matter to car/oil manufacturers that both carbon dioxide and water are damn good insulators and cause global warming. Forget worrying about minor 'pollutant' emissions, if you want to be green, go ELECTRIC, and make sure your power source is 'green' too.
While I'm ranting, I might as well gripe about what the Australian pollies are talking about - ethanol for cars. Assuming it is viable, the ONLY benefits from this would be decreased dependence on external fuel suppliers, and better use of our farmers. NO improvements on emissions.
If we expect this planet to keep us alive a for a few hundred years more, combustion for mainstream transport is NOT the way, not matter how 'advanced'. Imagine if the same amount of development had gone into electric propulsion as has been for internal combustion engines. Then we'd have progress. As usual, greed is slowing everything, and thousands of people will die in years to come before any real change in the car/oil industry STARTS to occur.
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