Global Cooling Car Dealer
Auto Dealer Becomes First in the Nation to Sell
Global Cooling Vehicles
Fort Lauderdale Best Buy Repos is the first used car dealer in the USA to sell global cooling cars. Trees are sponsored to offset a vehicles carbon emissions for one year. For the month of April, in observation of Earth Day, every car sold will carry the Global Cooling sticker at no charge to the customer.
This is a great idea, said owner Philip Traub. The cars I sell wont be adding to global warming. Its not expensive to sponsor trees and its easy to do. Located on NW First Avenue in Fort Lauderdale, Best Buy Repos sells 20 to 30 cars per month.
Starting in May, customers will be offered a five-dollar sticker that represents ten trees planted to offset the carbon dioxide emitted during the use of the car for the first year. The car owners will be reminded by email to renew their sticker after twelve months. Smaller cars use about 500 gallons of gasoline annually, which converts to 5 tons of carbon dioxide. Ten trees will absorb that amount in about 25 years. Over the life of the trees, as much as ten tons of carbon dioxide will be stored in the branches, trunk and roots of these trees. Over fifty years, the ten trees will offset the one-year carbon emissions of most large vehicles. More trees need to be sponsored if the vehicle consumes more than 1000 gallons of gasoline per year.
The trees will be planted through TREES, a non-profit tree planting organization based in Silver Spring, Md. TREES offers lifetime certificates for a small car (200 trees) and a large vehicle (400 trees) that dont need to be renewed (see plant-trees.org).
For more information, call McCrea Marketing at 954 646 8246.
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FACT SHEET
Frequently Asked Questions
How many trees need to be planted?
SMALL CAR
Fuel use: 25 mpg
Annual mile: 12,500 miles
Annual gasoline use: 500 gallons
Carbon Dioxide emitted in one year: 5 tons
Time needed for ten trees to absorb 5 tons: about 30 years
LARGE VEHICLE
Fuel use: 10 mpg
Annual mile: 10,000 miles
Annual gasoline use: 1000 gallons
Carbon Dioxide emitted in one year: 10 tons
Time needed for ten trees to absorb 10 tons: about 50 years
Note: More trees need to be sponsored if the vehicle consumes more than 1000 gallons of gasoline per year.
Lifetime certificate
Small Car
200 trees x 50 lbs/tree/year = 10,000 pounds per year
Enough to offset 500 gallons of gasoline consumed per year
Large Vehicle
500 trees x 50 lbs/tree/year = 25,000 pounds per year
Enough to offset 1250 gallons of gasoline consumed per year
How much carbon dioxide can a fast-growing tree absorb if planted in the humid tropics?
Carbon absorbed by one tree (an illustration)
Year 1 2
Year 2 5
Year 3 10
Year 4 20
Year 5 40
Subtotal 77 pounds
Years 6-44 1950 (39 years x 50 lbs/year) ------------------------------------------------
Total 2027 pounds over 44 years.
A fast-growing tree (planted in the tropics) will absorb about one ton of carbon dioxide over 44 years.
Carbon dioxide emitted from one gallon of gasoline: 20 pounds
Carbon in one gallon of gasoline: 5.5 pounds
Carbon Dioxide (CO2) = 12 + (2 x 16) = 44
Carbon = 12
Carbon dioxide from gasoline = 5.5 lbs. x 44/12 = 5.5 x 3.667 = 20.1
Weight of a gallon of gasoline: 2.69 to 2.91 kg (5.93 to 6.42 lbs)
It seems impossible that a gallon of gasoline, which weighs about 6.3 pounds, could produce 20 pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2) when burned. However, most of the weight of the CO2 doesn't come from the gasoline itself, but the oxygen in the air.
When gasoline burns, the carbon and hydrogen separate. The hydrogen combines with oxygen to form water (H2O), and carbon combines with oxygen to form carbon dioxide (CO2).
A carbon atom has a weight of 12, and each oxygen atom has a weight of 16, giving each single molecule of CO2 an atomic weight of 44 (12 from carbon and 32 from oxygen).
Therefore, to calculate the amount of CO2 produced from a gallon of gasoline, the weight of the carbon in the gasoline is multiplied by 44/12 or 3.7.
Since gasoline is about 87% carbon and 13% hydrogen by weight, the carbon in a gallon of gasoline weighs 5.5 pounds (6.3 lbs. x .87).
We can then multiply the weight of the carbon (5.5 pounds) by 3.7, which equals 20 pounds of CO2!
Source: http://www.fueleconomy.gov/Feg/co2.shtml
Where are the trees planted?
Trees for the Future, a non-profit organization based in Silver Spring, Md., has two projects for the Global Cooling Cars and Global Cooling Gasoline campaigns.
Rebu, Ethiopia, about two hours by car west-southwest from the capital Addis Ababa.
Botolan, Philippines, near Mt. Pinatubo, about two hours by car northwest of Manila.
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