Coal vs 87 octane

Per Oil: Crude and Petroleum Products - Energy Explained, Your Guide To Understanding Energy - Energy Information Administration, it's currently 45%. It tends to vary. In better times, the % is higher. Click on the links under the Supply column for historical info. In this case, it leads to http://www.eia.gov/emeu/mer/pdf/pages/sec3_7.pdf.

 

The raw numbers being presented on CO2 emissions per mile are not the whole story. Let's say you drive 2 miles to the store, shop for an hour and drive home. Every experienced Prius driver knows that you won't be getting anywhere close to 50 mpg on that trip...thus your CO2 per mile will be much greater than the steady state numbers in all the studies. But in EV mode you will be getting very close to the rated CO2 per mile from electricity. And being a short trip, probably driving slowly, you may even be getting a higher MPGe, thus lower CO2/mile.

Mike

 

Nice. But top this: the other week driving around DC Beltway we were buzzed by bald eagle. And last week fishing in a park near here another one buzzed the water. OK no King Salmon. Good to see Rachel Carlson was not too late.

 

Pod of Orcas perhaps?
West Seattle Blog… » West Seattle Whale Watch: Orca sightings!
Though the national bird swooping around the nation's capital is pretty durn good.

 

Then give a HUGE thanks where it is needed: our veterans!

DBCassidy