FYI Ping!..................
Sounds like we need a law prohibiting EV’s from using Tires made wit5h any type of petroleum products to stay in the Green Zone.
Note that “tire dust” is high on the list of environmental bugaboos coming down the pike.
“Tire Dust Makes Up the Majority of Ocean Microplastics, Study Finds”
Formula 1 has 10 teams, each with two cars — each car gets an allotment of 12 sets of tires every race weekend (plus rain tires if needed). Most of these tires are used up entirely each race weekend!
I love F1!
Chainsaw math puts it at about one tankful of gas to produce 50,000 miles on 4 tires.
Just under 4 gallons of gas per tire. Seven gallons of crude produces 3.6 gallons of gas.
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This clearly makes anyone who thinks they are saving the planet by driving an EV a complete and utter moron.
Interesting article, but it’s written at a fourth grade science level. No wonder there’s no author listed.
The only solutions to tire pollution and energy consumption are 1) ban all vehicles or 2) reduce the earth’s population to one billion.
Well, maybe our betters will allow us to own private vehicles for a while because they can’t ban them outright. So you’ll find your 5,000 mile per year driving allowance won’t get you very far. After getting that camel’s nose into your tent, your betters will ratchet that down to 1,000 miles within a few years of adopting that near-ban on driving. Then down to 500 miles.
If natural rubber is white, why arent the tires white? What makes the “WHITEwalls” and the letters white? If I cant have a flying car I want one with white wheels.
The headline asks how much oil to make a tire.
The answer is way, way down in the article. Very poor journalism.
It take about 6 gallons per car tire for the rubber itself. Whoopee!
According to the Rubber Manufacturers Association, it takes “approximately 7 gallons” of oil to produce a single tire. “Five gallons are used as feedstock (from which the substances that combine to form synthetic rubber are derived), while two gallons supply the energy necessary for the manufacturing process.” Mar 2, 2012
Dunn Tire
https://www.dunntire.com
Here is one of my favorites.
How much oil is in an EV.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-much-oil-electric-vehicle/
Here is the breakdown of all the products from a barrel of oil.
https://petroleumservicecompany.com/blog/oil-barrel-42-gallon-breakdown/
I have killed thousands of rubber trees.
How much is used in the plastic parts of a car?
Yet..... nary a mention of Guayule.