| ▲ | AdrianB1 21 hours ago |
| You don't create carbon out of thin air, it's from the fuel, so burning the same quantity of fuel will result in the same quantity of carbon, no matter how the engine works. Therefore a tax on fuel is a tax on carbon. |
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| ▲ | FrojoS 20 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_ethanol_fuel_mixtures#E... |
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| ▲ | ghostly_s 20 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Ethanol blends get worse MPG, and entail additional carbon emissions in creation. They do not reduce carbon emissions. | |
| ▲ | AdrianB1 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | What is the point of the link? Unless you play in the nuclear physics, Carbon in is Carbon out. Carbon in fuel is Carbon out of the engine. |
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| ▲ | idiotsecant 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Incomplete combustion is a big component of emissions, and it's exactly what you're saying doesn't exist |
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| ▲ | CorrectHorseBat 20 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Yes but since incomplete combustion is inverse correlated with fuel efficiency (unburned fuel is wasted fuel), it's not really a trade off. What is a trade off is NO emissions vs fuel efficiency. Burning your fuel oxygen rich will burn of more fuel, but also makes more NO (due to higher temperatures if I remember correctly). | |
| ▲ | cma 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Those eventually degrade to CO2 so the increased warming from them compared to co2 by mass is temporary, like with methane. |
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