Question

How many miles of carbon dioxide are produced

Answer 1

Hummm... Its not normally reported that way. First you need to determine how many miles you are getting per gallon. A good estimate is that you will discharge 19.6 pounds of CO2 from burning 1 gallon of gasoline. This does not depend on the power or configuration of the engine. Of course if the car gets more miles per gallon of gasoline, you will get less CO2 per unit of service rendered (that is, less CO2 per mile traveled). 

Once you determine how many miles per gallon you are getting then divide that by 19.6 and that should give you the pounds of Carbon dioxide produced per mile. 

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