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
gas —
into 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.