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		adrianN on Jan 25, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Oslo made its city center basically car-free What's the current cost of sucking a gallon of gasoline's worth of CO2 out of the atmosphere?

thereisnospork on Jan 25, 2019 [–]

Couple of bucks. A gallon of gas emits 20-lbs of CO2, or ~1% of a tonne. Cost to remove CO2 from the atmosphere is roughly a few hundred $/tonne to about 70$/tonne depending on who's doing the estimating.

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