You are the one who is wrong. Scrubbers only take out
sulphur from coal. The exhaust of today's auto is cleaner
than the exhaust stacks of coal fired electricity plants by
far. Natural gas might be a little cleaner than gasoline but
not by far. Carbon dioxide is carbon dioxide and even
alcohol when burned produces carbon dioxide and water.

Autos have catalytic converters to control other pollutants
and power plants do not.

The main emissions of a car engine a

a.. Nitrogen gas (N2) - Air is 78-percent nitrogen gas, and most of this passes right through the car engine.
b.. Carbon dioxide (CO2) - This is one product of combustion. The carbon in the fuel bonds with the oxygen in the air.
c.. Water vapor (H2O) - This is another product of combustion. The hydrogen in the fuel bonds with the oxygen in the air.
These emissions are mostly benign (although carbon dioxide emissions are believed to contribute to global warming). But because the combustion process is never perfect, some smaller amounts of more harmful emissions are also produced in car engines:
a.. Carbon monoxide (CO) - a poisonous gas that is colorless and odorless
b.. Hydrocarbons or volatile organic compounds (VOCs) - produced mostly from unburned fuel that evaporates
Sunlight breaks these down to form oxidants, which react with oxides of nitrogen to cause ground level ozone (O3), a major component of smog.


c.. Nitrogen oxides (NO and NO2, together called NOx) - contributes to smog and acid rain, and also causes irritation to human mucus membranes
These are the three main regulated emissions, and also the ones that catalytic converters are designed to reduce.

Cars are cleaner than power plants (excepting nuclear and hydroelectric that is)
and that's a fact. Cars don't cause acid rain power plants do. Lord you are
one stupid and brainwashed liberal.

S.Simon


"Bobsprit" wrote in message ...
Not true. Automobiles have cleaner exhaust by far
than power plants which just run it up higher in the
atmosphere through giant stacks.

100% false, Neal. Power plants release cleaner byproducts by far via their
scrubbers than any auto. They're also thousands of times more efficient
compared to how a gas powered car produces energy via combustion. You're so
uneducated on this, it's really sad.

RB