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The other night on "The Secret Life of Machines" on the TLC cable channel
I think that I heard that an average car produces 4 times its weight in
exhaust
gases over its lifetime.  I think that that is a suspicious number, but if
I estimate
the amount of gasoline in at 6200 gallons over 10 years and approximately
6
lb per gallon (water is 8 lb/gal) I get 37000 lb of fuel going in.  What
with carbon
and oxygen about the same mollecular weight, I would guess about 100,000
of exhaust over 10 years.  Perhaps the figure  on TV was a yearly figure.
( I know these figures are very rough, you can make up your own easly.)

Lets work with 4xweight per year.  For my Mazda RX7 at 3200 lb I get
an exhaust weight of 12800 lb of exhaust.   After watching the smog check
machines, the exhaust gases show less than 1 ppm of hydrocarbons and
less than that for nitrous oxides. (reads 0).  I think that this gives a
figure
of .0128 lb of hydrocarbons or about a fifth of an ounce of hydrocarbons
released
per year from that car. 

I suspect I pass that much methane that much in a year personally.  When
am 
I going to be required to have a converter stuffed in an uncomfortable
place?
Many women use that much perfume in a year.  Same for men using
aftershave. 

Get real!  The automobiles are not the problem, they are just politically
incorrect
due to people that cannot do a little math. 

 If you want to see real hydrocarbon SMOG, go to the "Blue Mountains" in
the east.  The TREES emit hydrocarbons (turpentine and worse) in fairly
large quantities. The renouned BLUE mountains are the result of SMOG!

 The dry brush here in the LA basin still
covers a suprisingly large area.  These desert plants are high hydrocarbon
emitters. They are so satureated with fuel that they burn like candles. 
Every
10 years or so we have a big fire and lesser fires every year.  Huge 
quantities of poorly burnt fuel is released in these events.

While I am at it and going to get flamed.  I might as well point out that 
the rain forests are not net oxygen generators.  If they were, they would
be
piling up carbon somewhere.  If you crack CO2 to get O2, the carbon goes
somewhere.  In mature forests, the net weight of the forest growth does
not
change.  Most rain forests dont build soil either.  The forces of rot and
decay
rapidly oxidize the forest litter and downed trees back to CO2.

If you are looking for O2 generators, look for places where the carbon is
piling
up.  Peat bogs,  ocean environments that are laying down carbonates and 
such.   I myself have a carbon store.  Its called a wood frame house.  I
have a big
pepper tree making soil at the rate of about 1/2 in a year under it.