Hi, Balaji, You had some great questions, and numbers on energy to move people. Okay, so I have a habit, but maybe I could sip a little home brew now and then? My VW Beetle can use home brew (biodiesel), and I am getting 60 miles per gallon on petrodiesel. With two people in the car, my energy per passenger mile is--
1,250 BTU per passenger mile for a VW TDI diesel (two passengers, 60mpg, 150k BTU/gal) Hey, I outdid the train, and the fuel can be renewable. Not too bad for starters. (The Honda Insight would beat me by a little bit with two passengers. I win with three people in the car.) Ernie Rogers Balaji said, >The first step begins with you, the individual petroleum addict. It is imperative that we >each take stock of our personal dependence, and ask ourselves how different our lives >would become if it were not so cheap and readily available. What owns who? What >percentage of your income is supporting the habit? Where can conservation make a >difference? What do you want to pass on to future generations? What are you personally >willing to do, right now? > >Average BTU consumed Per Passenger mile by mode of travel: > >SUV: 4,591 >Air: 4,123 >Bus: 3,729 >Car: 3,672 >Train: 2,138 > >Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics: >http://199.79.179.77/publications/nts/index.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/FGYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
