Why is no one talking about NASCAR or INDY burning/wasting thousands and thousands of gallons of oil?

Question

Everyone is talking about "going green" or start being concioius in the oil you burn and use. Everyone has been saying for years that eventually we are going to burn out all the oil in the world and make the costs sky rocket. Well why in the world would we have NASCAR, Indy, those truck racing and other racing events. It is boring to a lot of people, and WASTES more oil than any other thing I can think of.

Answer 1

Sorry I don't talk to toads !!!!!

Answer 2

Sure, alot of people find racing boring but they are in the minority.
Nascar is the 2nd most popular sport in the U.S.
The 1st most popular sport is the NFL. The NFL burns more fuel flying from game to game than Nascar could even think about burning.

TIRES! The top three levels of Nascar combined use approx. only 50,000 tires per year during all the races. My employer, a family owned business, sold 500,000 tires last year. That's ONE company in ONE city!!!

Did you know AL GORE's estate uses more energy in 1 month than the average family of 4 does in 1 year!

Did you know Indy car's are using Ethanol now. Mark my word's, Nascar will be using Ethanol within 3-5 year's.

Did you know "Eco-terrorists" are burning SUV's to prove some kind of point, but the fact is a burning vehicle put's more pollutants in the air than the same vehicle driven for 100,000 miles.

Did you know that in California, the EPA is allowing large corporation's to buy old car's for $750 and have them crushed. For every car they crush they receive "credits". When they have 'X' number of credit's there factories are then allowed to CONTINUE polluting above EPA standards!
You may be all for crushing old car's. I am not! What really pisses me off is that the car's there supposed to be buying are car's that are currently licensed, running, and driven. But they are using loopholes and good old fashion fraud to buy car's that have been sitting silent in fields for 5, 10, 50 year's!! It's a joke!

People like you are making this country go down the tubes because you truly have no idea what you are talking about.

Answer 3

Ok, this question has been asked at least a dozen times by people who don't like racng. Here is my response and it's a fact. One ( 1 ) round trip on a 747 from New York to La, use's more fuel than all the cars in the busch and cup race on any given weekend. Now, since this is the facts, shouldn't people give up the weekend trips from NY to LA to help save fuel???? Oh, and we will run out of oil in about 500 years at the rate we are using it. There are millions, I repeat millions of acres that have oil in the ground. Problen is, the people who own those rights will not drill because they know that the more oil, the cheaper prices, the cheaper prices, the less money in their pockets. It all as simple as that.
Lets go racing boys.

Answer 4

Racing only uses a fraction of a percent of all the fuel consumed; so to single out Racing as a waste of fuel is a bit militant and misguided. Though these cars have horrific gas milage; again they only make up a fraction of a percentage of the World's total fuel consumption.

You might want to do a bit more homework about the subject of fuel consumption before you going throwing accusations and having a Witch Hunt against Racing.

Plus, I may not like what you like; but I am not going to go around questioning it and calling it a WASTE. Everyone has their thing and it would be nice if people would respect other people's things, even if they do not like or understand it.

Answer 5

That's what I thought before I started to understand NASCAR. I still realize that a large amount of fuel is being used for the sport, but if you think about it it's really not that much.

There are about 49 teams that qualify every race. That's 49 haulers, plus RVs, planes, etc. for each team. 43 cars make the race each week, and go around 500 miles. Then the process is repeated.

Now, think about those numbers. I don't have the exact statistics on how much fuel is being used or anything, but if you think about those numbers compared to whole US, it's nothing. Think about 43 cars, go on the highway and count out 43 cars, doesn't take very long, does it? If you take those 43 cars out it's not going to make much of a difference in the big picture, is it? Now I realize that there are many other series, and the number go way up, but still the numbers are miniscule if you think about it in perspective.

I agree that conserving our Earth's resources is important, but if you take away motorsports, it's not going to make much of a difference.

Answer 6

The amount of fuel used at these events is miniscule compared to the amount used in the world, or even the nation. Actually, the high, high majority of fuel burned for a NASCAR or IndyCar event would be used up by the fans driving to the event and parking. The amount of fuel used by fans going to 15 separate baseball or football events on any one gameday would be far more, so in that sense, racing uses less fuel since there's only one event per week per series.

Answer 7

I believe it wastes more oil than anything because, to you, it seems so. Pull up some numbers to prove your statement, and then people might take you seriously.

I personally think of all the travelling costs that many sports teams go through just to get to a new location. Group that with 20 or so sports teams in at least 4 major sporting leagues, and you have lots of fuel being "wasted" as well.

If you go further into it than the national level, you have school district's whose teams are bussed around to compete with other schools on their playing fields. Think of the hundreds of schools and their hundreds of teams in baseball, basketball, soccer, dive, tennis, golf, football, chess, choir, band, etc. etc. that participate!

If you want to stop NASCAR, you should probably stop every major sporting event that wasn't local, too.

Answer 8

why is no one talking about the thousands and thousands of gallons a cruise ship uses? Or the thousands of gallons a jumbo jet uses in 4 hours? Televisions use electricity at the rate of millions of gallons of oil.

Just cause auto racing shows them adding 15 gallons of fuel doesn't mean it wastes the most.

Green means restricting those who have different interests than we do, right?

Answer 9

What about all of the planes going clear across the country everyday? Not all of that is needed either. We could all sit a homes with our solar panels all day long playing boardgames, but the truth is we want some form of entertainment. The number of gallons used to transport other sports teams is a waste as well, but it goes towards an entertainment value.

Answer 10

First off, Indy cars use 100% Ethanol.
2nd - The amount fuel used by fans & teams travelling the country can't be much different from all the jam bands & their fans travelling the world. Think about it before you cast stones hippy....

Answer 11

Because its less fuel in 1 year compared to what our country uses every day.

If you dont like racing then dont watch. You dont hear us complaining about you being a tree hugging homo. Just think the SUVs you people burn gives off more pollution than if it had been driven for its entire life. Now thats a waste of resources.