Comments on: I see your Prius, and raise you an Excursion. http://www.nslms.com/2007/10/19/i-see-your-prius-and-raise-you-an-excursion/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:45:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: making biodiesel http://www.nslms.com/2007/10/19/i-see-your-prius-and-raise-you-an-excursion/#comment-131 making biodiesel Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:53:54 +0000 http://www.nslms.com/?p=4#comment-131 <strong>making biodiesel...</strong> Nice story! Can I use this for my blog? gr, remcowoudstra... making biodiesel…

Nice story! Can I use this for my blog? gr, remcowoudstra…

]]> By: RyanG http://www.nslms.com/2007/10/19/i-see-your-prius-and-raise-you-an-excursion/#comment-5 RyanG Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:40:00 +0000 http://www.nslms.com/?p=4#comment-5 Well, you might be on the losing side of that argument, but probably by a smaller margin than you or the honda driver might assume.<br/><br/>The oldest accord I can find data for is a 1988, (I use <a HREF="http://autos.msn.com/" REL="nofollow">MSN Autos</a> for most of my information) and the EPA rating is 27(city)/34(hwy). That makes an average of 30.5.<br/><br/>That makes 327 gallons of gasoline.<br/><br/>327*19.4=6343.8 lbs of CO2.<br/><br/>Your Excursion would put out just over double the CO2 running on the Ultra Low Sulfur petroleum diesel that is mandated in Californa pumps.<br/><br/>However, you mention the difference between your vehicle running well, and tuned, vs. the Honda probably not performing perfectly. That adds some other stuff to the equation like unburnt hydrocarbons etc. I don't have the hard science so I can't estimate the differences that would make, but I surmise that it's significant.<br/><br/>If you run B100, or even B20, and buy an "Out of Towner" <a HREF="http://www.terrapass.com/road/products.road.all.php" REL="nofollow">TerraPass</a> you can be a smug as you like driving your Excursion.<br/><br/>My real point is that there aren't black and white answers to being environmentally friendly, only shades of "green". Well, you might be on the losing side of that argument, but probably by a smaller margin than you or the honda driver might assume.

The oldest accord I can find data for is a 1988, (I use MSN Autos for most of my information) and the EPA rating is 27(city)/34(hwy). That makes an average of 30.5.

That makes 327 gallons of gasoline.

327*19.4=6343.8 lbs of CO2.

Your Excursion would put out just over double the CO2 running on the Ultra Low Sulfur petroleum diesel that is mandated in Californa pumps.

However, you mention the difference between your vehicle running well, and tuned, vs. the Honda probably not performing perfectly. That adds some other stuff to the equation like unburnt hydrocarbons etc. I don’t have the hard science so I can’t estimate the differences that would make, but I surmise that it’s significant.

If you run B100, or even B20, and buy an “Out of Towner” TerraPass you can be a smug as you like driving your Excursion.

My real point is that there aren’t black and white answers to being environmentally friendly, only shades of “green”.

]]> By: jason http://www.nslms.com/2007/10/19/i-see-your-prius-and-raise-you-an-excursion/#comment-3 jason Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:12:00 +0000 http://www.nslms.com/?p=4#comment-3 You know, i have been making the argument that my perfectly tuned excursion diesel would put out less emmissions than the piece of crap 85 accord that some tree hugger is driving because he thinks he's "saving the environment" just because his car has a small engine. You know, i have been making the argument that my perfectly tuned excursion diesel would put out less emmissions than the piece of crap 85 accord that some tree hugger is driving because he thinks he’s “saving the environment” just because his car has a small engine.

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