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By the Numbers: the Kansas Speedway
Here’s something to choke on while you cheer on your favorite driver.
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Published on September 26, 2007 at 11:32am
With the Kansas Speedway the site of the Banquet 400 on Sunday, we crunched the numbers on the race's environmental impact. Here's the damage, on average, which may just make you want to slap that No. 3 decal on a Prius.
100 — Gallons of gas used per car
1,956 — Pounds of greenhouse gases released by each car
217— Number of Chihuahuas equal to the weight of greenhouse gases produced by each car
84,108— Pounds of greenhouse gases released by all 43 cars in an average Nextel Cup race
14,018 — Number of Chihuahuas equal in weight to that greenhouse gas production
12,000 — Pounds of greenhouse gases released per year by an average U.S. driver
84 — Number of months the average motorist would have to drive to equal the greenhouse gases produced by the average NASCAR race
65,000 — Number of parking spots at the Kansas Speedway
780 million — Pounds of greenhouse gases those cars will produce in a year
130 million — Number of Chihuahuas equal to that greenhouse gas production
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