Question: From an environmental point a view a smaller, energy efficient car is more desirable than larger cars. Assuming a gas - powered mid - sized

From an environmental point a view a smaller, energy efficient car is more desirable than larger cars. Assuming a gas - powered mid-sized (family) car is driven about 25,000 km per year over the 10 year life create an energy based audit - bar chart and using that chart explain why this would be the case and where it would impact the energy use the most. An approximate bill of materials for a mid-sized car is given below (material proxies for vague material descriptions are provided in the brackets).The car is manufactured in Georgetown Kentucky and sold in Milpitas, California (transported predominantly by train). You can assume that you will recover 25 GJ of energy during recycling of the car.
\table[[Material,Mass (kg)],[Steel (low alloy steel),950],[Aluminum (cast aluminum alloy),438],[Thermoplastic polymer (PU, PVC),148],[Thermosetting polymer (polyester),93],[Elastomers (butyl rubber),40],[Glass (borosilicate glass),40],[Other metals (copper),61],[Textiles (polyester),47]]
From an environmental point a view a smaller,

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