03-02-2017, 11:03 PM
(03-02-2017, 04:07 PM)Bilbo Saggins Wrote: It's actually more environmentally efficient to run old cars into the ground rather than to spend the resources necessary to make a new one. Now if you had the option to buy a car where the mining, manufacturing, and assembly operations were run by clean energy(solar/wind/geo/old hydro), then that might be a different story. At present no one on the market offers that. The $10 million/minute global subsidies given to energy companies keep the prices too low to incentivize them to do anything aside from what they already know how to do: provide fossil fuel energy for a global economy that has been tooled and engineered to consume fossil fuels.
Good analysis of the front end. Of course, on the back end there is the little matter of disposing of the entire junked car. Every day that is delayed and the resources already extracted continue to function as a car is a greener day too.
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