[VegChat] Public Transit?

[David Wardell]

Consider,

An O.C. transpo Bus uses approximately 150 liters of diesel fuel per 
hundred kilometers travelled. The average number of passengers carried 
throughout the day on a O.C. transpo bus is 15.

This gives an average fuel consumption for the bus fleet of 10 liters of 
deisel per hundred kilometers for every passenger.

Compare this to a the new small car such as the Toyota Echo or Honda 
Civic which use about 5 liters per hundred kilometers.

This is half the fuel per passenger a bus uses. Also, if you have a 
passenger on board, then the fuel use per passenger is only one quarter 
used by the bus.

More than this even, is that the new passenger cars have emissions 
control and pollute very little, while the bus has no pollution controls 
what so ever and causes air pollution equal too several hundred Honda's.

Dave W.