I'm always bemused by the the green/neo-cons/FoE/etc people who insist that people replace their old oil-burner with the latest, more efficient, car.
They never seem to think of the industrial pollution costs for creating that car (steel-mills to make the raw material; power-stations to power the presses that form the body-panels; fuel burnt by all the workers travelling to the factories that make the cars; all the chemicals used to make the cables/fabrics/paints/glass/etc used in the cars; all the fuel burnt transporting the components from the sub-suppliers to the assembly lines.
Given that people are encouraged to replace their cars ever three years, I consider my 55 year old car pretty damn economic....
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They never seem to think of the industrial pollution costs for creating that car (steel-mills to make the raw material; power-stations to power the presses that form the body-panels; fuel burnt by all the workers travelling to the factories that make the cars; all the chemicals used to make the cables/fabrics/paints/glass/etc used in the cars; all the fuel burnt transporting the components from the sub-suppliers to the assembly lines.
Given that people are encouraged to replace their cars ever three years, I consider my 55 year old car pretty damn economic....
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