How much pollution is produced by Nascar every year?

Question

My stepdad today was watching one of the races and so I was wondering how much pollution does nascar cause every year? I think'd it'd be a lot with all the miles the cars go each race, the parts they use, the making of the cars and the raceway.

Why hasn't anybody done anything about it?

To Eric P: the electricty I use comes from process steam produced by the Georgia Pacific paper plant, wind power, and from dams NOT from the burning of coal so I think I'll keep my computer on.

Answer 1

Because NASCAR, it's sponsors and drivers provide too much money for charities. The pollution is nothing compared to emissions from everyday traffic. Which requires much more attention than what a NASCAR race produces.

Answer 2

So you want a green car created? Doubt it would be equal.

Yes Nascar is doing something about it.

Nextel Cup going to unleaded fuel in 2007: NASCAR will make the transition to unleaded fuel one year earlier than previously announced as it plans to have all three series run almost the entire 2007 season on unleaded fuel. The lone exception, involving the Nextel Cup Series, will be the season-opening Daytona 500. Crew chiefs said Friday at Martinsville Speedway they were informed of the decision this week, and a NASCAR official confirmed the move.(SceneDaily.com)(10-21-2006)

# Alternative fuel in NASCAR's future: NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France said earlier this week the sport is researching a move toward an alternative fuel. It is a high priority for the sport, though no timeline has been set as the research is not far along. However, teams will have to revamp their entire engine program with the introduction of a new fuel. Richie Gilmore, vice president of competition for DEI, estimated the change this year from leaded to unleaded fuel ran his company roughly $500,000 in research and development. France said there is no timeline for any change because there are "eight or nine different versions of what alternative fuels mean to people." One possibility is ethanol, which the IndyCar Series switched to this season.(Richmond Times Dispatch)(7-6-2007)

Answer 3

Oh Maddy, don't you just live in the perfect neighborhood -
NOT - Georgia Pacific, ummmm, don't they use trees to make paper, TREES, one of the best eliminators of pollution, and creators of OXYGEN.... And I'm sure that they don't have any polluting gases in their exhausts from the process they use.
Secondly, why is it just NASCAR you attack, how about boat racing, motorcycle racing, plane racing, go-cart racing, sprint car racing, etc. and so on. How about all of the factories in the country that do burn fossil fuels, since coal is no longer an option for most.
How about all of the sprays for hair, nail polish, and other things that most women use everyday, that emit fluorocarbons, Pam cooking spray, the emissions from the vehicles your family uses, your friends, their families.
Ever been stuck in traffic during rush hour? How much pollution is caused by vehicles sitting still running air conditioning, etc. And please, don't get me started on the problems air conditioners have caused.....

Answer 4

Extremely little. 43 cars that run an average of 300 miles and get about 5 MGP Figure that, including practice to be about 3,000 gallons of fuel for 36 weeks.
The crowd coming to one race will burn more than than and pollute much more. I think the average morning commute to LA on the freeway will burn more than NASCAR will in 10 years.

Answer 5

I'll give you an intellectually honest answer, because I think you're asking from genuinely questioning perspective and not being a jackass like Nathan B.
Let's imagine we wean ourselves off of fossil fuels. It still will require energy to create alternative fuels. Maybe another way to say this is we'll shift from consuming one product another.
We've made a lot of progress, and we owe to our kids to keep moving forward in improving things.....BUT all this global (to the point of destruction) warming crap is proving be a bunch of hokum to justify the existence and the need to raise funds for the Sierra Club, Earth Farce (I mean First), and all those other hypocrites.

Answer 6

It's negligible. Really. There are 43 cars going 750 miles tops per week (including practices). That's not even a measurable percent of the pollution created by cars in a single town in one day.

Answer 7

Nascar recycle's the motor oil they use,they use an environmentally safe oil and starting in 2008 they plan to use unleaded fuel.

The shops where they build the car's are very state of the art . Floors so shiny and clean that you could eat off them in a matter of speaking .It;s not your run of the mill side of the road run down garage .

They follow codes by EPA and OSHA They protect the environment in other words

Answer 8

I'll bet you're a lot of fun at a party.
Are you asking this same question on the other racing forums? I would think that Formula 1, NHRA, IRL, etc. would also cause pollution.
What about all the pollution caused by people traveling to and from baseball, basketball and football games?
Maybe we should all just give up sports altogether.

Answer 9

very little compared to the rest of america and especially the world, they run 15374 miles in a season, and the average person drive about that amount in a year, so it like only having 43 more drivers on the road a year, and they have more strict emitions then all states but California, and it makes the cars we drive on a daily basis so thats good.

Answer 10

Hard to say. But I'll bet that in the big cities like L.A., Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, etc., that they produce more in a weeks time during their rush hour traffic than what these guys produce in NASCAR all season.