Mopeds Not “Mo Betta” for the Environment
Ever wonder if that noisy, smelly moped with the cloud of smoke behind it was better for the environment or not? Here’s the answer:
. . . the two-stroke scooter WW tested produced about 490 times the hydrocarbons and more than eight times the Co2 of the SUV.
(By the way, they call mopeds ’scooters’ on the Mainland, same thing.)
You might be saving gasoline, mopeds are far more fuel efficent but this is certainly offset by the amount of “greenhouse gasses” produced by that vehicle.
How long is going to be before we discover just how damaging to the environment “ethanol” is?
Full article here.