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Frank Lee · 09-17-2011, 12:44 AM

Regardless of Mythbusters, even if a particular bike model and car model got identical fe, the bike used about 1/5 the materials to make, especially oil-based plastics. There's a lot of emissions in manufacture and disposal too.

09-17-2011, 12:44 AM	#5 (permalink)
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