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Old 02-20-2012, 09:54 PM   #146 (permalink)
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If someone could quantify the claims about the amount of air pollution the refineries produce to produce my 226 gallons of gasoline, or other examples of how insignificant my personal pollution is, I'm teetering on the brink of coming back.

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I think we need to at least find the *range* of min/max pollution being claimed in all these studies and go from there. Maybe there's something to find at Rocky Mountain Institute :

Rocky Mountain Institute

For instance, here is an article :

ABATING AIR POLLUTION AT NEGATIVE COST VIA ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Abating Air Pollution at Negative Cost

With reference at the back of the article.

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