[at-l] red, white and blue

[greyowl at rcn.com (greyowl@rcn.com)]

When I sold my minivan it 253,000 miles on it and it 
routinelt got 21 miles to the gallon.  Not bad, but the 
pollution that it put out was horrible.  I sold the car to a 
junk yard for $500.  They essentially stripped it and 
recycled most of it (it had a brand new battery, and the kept 
the fuel pump, and alternator).  Got a newer used car that 
was a lot cleaner and gets 28 mpg.

Grey Owl


>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Shane Steinkamp" <shane@theplacewithnoname.com>
>> I don't think that SUVs are nearly the problem that some 
of these older
>cars
>> are.  I bought a Ford Escape, and I get much better gas 
mileage and
>cleaner
>> emissions than my '85 Chevy S-10 got.  It sure beats the 
crap out of my
>> neighbors '72 Caddy...
>
>Yeah, but what about him just throwing that Caddy away?  
What about our
>landfills?
>
>It's a question I'm struggling with right now - my minivan 
is now 10 years
>old.  It has 200,000 miles on it.  When I bought it, I had 
kids at home and
>almost always had a full, or near full, load of people in 
it.  Now I'm
>driving around in it alone.
>
>I know I could buy something that gets better gas mileage.  
But what about
>the other environmental issue of just throwing away things 
that still have
>useful life?  Is it better to keep driving this thing now 
until it finally
>won't run at all?  (It still runs ok).
>
>And what about the needs I have as far as winter travel?  
I'd love one of
>the new hybrids, but - - can it handle the Notches in winter 
here in the
>Whites?  (I live uphill on a dirt road in the Pinkham Notch 
area (5 miles
>from the AMC center there) and regularly have to drive 
through Crawford and
>Franconia Notches as well).
>
>suzie
>
>
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