I need something more specific than the generic calculators out there on the web.

You would be hard pressed to EXACTLY count your greenhous emissions.
A gallon of gasoline is reckoned by the EPA to produce 8.8 kilograms (or 19.4 pounds) of CO2. (this is the mass of the Carbon plus the oxygen used to burn it which is why it would have a mass greater than the fuel from whence it came). But how much CO2 was produced in pumping, refining and transporting it?
You could probably contact your local electric utility and figure their emissions and your share of it, but that'd also be a ballpark.

In essence, there are instances where you directly cause CO2 emissions, but there are many more things in which you indirectly share in the creation of CO2 with other consumers. This is why calculators are good, because the good ones take these things that you can't measure into account.

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