Another Green Myth dies a painful death
As for the SUV, we borrowed WW publisher Richard Meeker’s 2006 Subaru Tribeca. The six-cylinder engine in Meeker’s SUV pumped out less than 10 ppm of hydrocarbons and 1 percent CO2. In other words, the two-stroke scooter WW tested produced about 490 times the hydrocarbons and more than eight times the Co2 of the SUV
There are some reasonable objections to the article in the comments, and a couple of very angry scooter riders who are offended by the entire concept that their preferred ride might pollute. Still and all, smaller does not always mean “better”.
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