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Originally Posted by Dragoneye
Hmmm...I don't think the two are related. Carbon Dioxide and Water Vapor do NOT equal cancer-inducing tobbacco smoke, nicotine, and other nasty ingredients...
That said...the problem here is not the IC engine...it's the fuel. If anybody wants to reduce emissions and our dependance on oil -- change the fuel. It's the easiest fix in the near term.
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co2 and water vapor? In an absolutely perfect world. In the real world there are far more products of combustion than those two when it comes to gasoline. The combustion is not clean nor is it a total burn. You get nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons that aren't burned, sulfur oxides from impurities and you even get ozone from NO2 releasing an oxygen atom and it bonding with an o2 molecule. There are plenty of dangerous, carcinogenic products from an internal combustion engine of any kind.
I think certain aspects of this article are very accurate. Our future is plagued with huge taxes and costs associated with running a gasoline powered vehicle. I don't think anyone but tree-huggers will look at you with disgust, but cost-wise it's going to be terrible.