Sentences with phrase «gallons of gas into»

You may fit up to 24.6 gallons of gas into this SUV's fuel tank.

Not exact matches

With roughly 175 million gallons of sewage flowing into the city of San Diego, Calif.'s Point Loma Wastewater Treatment Plant (PLWTP) each day, the Metropolitan Wastewater Department (MWD) had so much excess methane gas that for a number of years... Continue reading →
But even after taking into account state gas taxes, blending requirements aimed at reducing air pollution and other environmental and climate fees attached to each gallon of fuel, it appears drivers...
As Magoon turns into the shallow inlet, a half - track borrowed from the missile - tracking station on the island will trundle down the ramp with 600 gallons of gas.
Each gas drilling well requires 5 acres of road and well pad, 4 to 9 million gallons of water mixed with 50,000 gallons of hundreds of different chemicals — many of them highly toxic carcinogens, neurotoxins and endocrine disrupters (as well as many untested synergistically on living beings) forced into a spider web of miles of pipeline that is soon thick coated with radioactive radium when 60 % of that toxic brew is on its way back upward as gas waste «brine.»
With fracking, millions of gallons of water, dangerous chemicals, and sand are injected under high pressure deep into the earth, fracturing hard rock to release oil and gas.
«We realized that we were discovering (or had blundered into) a huge oil and gas field buried in our cities (buildings), factories, and roads (cars), which could be «extracted» at pennies per gallon of gasoline equivalent,» he wrote.
Concerns over hydraulic fracturing, an oil and gas extraction method that injects millions of gallons of freshwater and chemicals into shale, have largely focused on potential impacts on water quality.
Experts on greenhouse - gas emissions tell me that every time my car burns a gallon of gasoline, I am putting more than 25 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as well as a smaller amount of methane, nitrous oxide, and various other toxic gases.
Instead of pumping millions of gallons of water and fracturing fluid into the earth, the company GasFrac used a liquefied petroleum gas gel — propane gas compressed into a thick fluid — to break up the rock.
The hydraulic fracturing process — pushing gallons upon gallons of chemical - laden water into shale rock in order to bubble up natural gas — takes place deep in the ground, thousands of feet below the earth's surface and thousands of feet below the shallow aquifers that provide drinking water.
Hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» is a petroleum - extraction procedure in which millions of gallons of water (as well as sand and chemicals) are injected deep into underground shale beds to crack the rock and release natural gas and oil.
Millions of gallons of water mixed with sand and up to 300 tons of chemicals are then pumped into the well at high pressure to create breaks in the rock and release the gas.
Listening to this song makes me want to drive off into the California sun and chase the sea breeze, along the coast (but seeing as gas is $ 4 + a gallon, I don't see that realistically happening any time soon... eff): Pursuit Of Happiness (cover) by Lissie
(Twenty - four pounds of carbon dioxide is released into Earth's atmosphere for each gallon of gas an automobile uses.)
Whether it's just a question of trying to increase your miles per gallon to save a little money at the pump, or working to put as few NOx emissions into the atmosphere as possible, electric and hybrid vehicles can deliver top gas mileage and environmentally - friendly driving.
You'd roll into the station, ask for a «dollar's worth», get nearly seven gallons of gas ($ 28 worth today), and cruise until your heart was content.
«Each gallon of gasoline we burn emits between 24 and 28 pounds of carbon dioxide — the most common greenhouse gasinto the atmosphere.»
Based on an analysis of U.S. driving patterns, GM estimates that the Volt will get 150 miles per gallon, since the gas - powered recharger engine would come into play only occasionally.
Moreover, energy from oil and gas drilling is much less harmful to the environment — especially given the high usage of water, the unbearable flow of life - killing nutrients into the Gulf of Mexico, and of course the negative impacts on gasoline and diesel engines from the added ethanol (and the lower miles per gallon it delivers).
While that may sound like a lot, consider that the United States consumes about 378 million gallons of gas a day, and released about 6.4 billion tons of greenhouse gases into the air last year.
During the fracking process, millions of gallons of fracking fluid — a mixture of water, sand and toxic chemicals — are injected into the ground to break up the shale and release natural gas.
The process of drilling for oil and gas involves high - pressure injections of millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals — including highly toxic substances, such as benzene and lead — into the well.
Let's assume that the exploration and facilities are paid for already, and that refining the oil into gas is a small fixed part of the cost of each gallon of gas, say a few cents.
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