[Greenbuilding] OT What car?

[Clarke Olsen]

    I think that you would have to drive a lot-o-miles to justify
    the building of yet another car.
    Clarke Olsen
    Spencertown, NY

On May 3, 2008, at 2:31 PM, MKL wrote:

> Pursuant to the collective realization here of the
> futility of attempting to establish a universal Green
> manifesto.
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> A puzzle.
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> If someone drove under 12,000 kms per year (suburban
> or rural retiree perhaps) should they drive an old gas
> guzzler (or just a gas fueled car) perhaps with a
> bigger engine thereby reducing the need for new car
> production and consequent production pollution and
> save a lot of money on the price of the vehicle or buy
> a new expensive fuel efficient vehicle and save on the
> cost of fuel (with the AC off) but contribute to
> production pollution and have less to spend on evac
> tube technology?
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> There is presumably a ratio like there is with
> everything else practical by which this might be
> decided but in a retiring baby boom dominated society
> likely to be only going into town once a week will it
> matter much if its in a   5 litre Bentley Continental
> or Lincoln Town Car? Indeed SHOULD it be rather than a
> NEW vehicle of any type? (assuming VERY low annual
> mileage of course)
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> If the store was only 3 miles away then would it be OK
> then to drive from Buffalo to Arizona and back once a
> year in the Lincoln? The auto industry in North
> America has traditionally catered to the suburban
> commuter where high daily mileage can be offset with
> savings in the choice of engine but in the near future
> aging boomers and beyond will not drive as much as
> they did possibly making the savings on fuel type
> small and for many the deciding factor of how much
> they will pay to save a few dollars. Especially if
> they live in the city in multi unit housing and only
> use their car to get to the Summer "cottage/cabin" in
> the country where they are active in tree planting,
> growing organic foods and breathing cleaner air.
>
> Michael Lough
>
> No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace
> used to keep order.
> Albert Speer
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