http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline_gallon_equivalent


RBerglund


What is missing in this chart is BTU's per pound therefore it is over simplified.

Also some of the gaseous fuels mentioned require heavy pressure vessels and the electric vehicles require heavy
batteries. It takes HP to accelerate and to climb hills. Extra weight is counter productive.

Not to mention the natural resource use and recycling cost of the batteries.

This site is not the big picture.

Paul Lamar


This Wikipedia article is confusing and misleading. I think it was prepared by lawyers of the NRDC. Engineering uses
fuel heat value per unit weight to compare fuels and when weight cannot be used an equivalent heat value is used. I
could not make sense using the numbers in the article.

Because Wikipedia is an open forum someone qualified could fix it. The Rotary

Robert Young

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