[at-l] Efficient Cars WAS PBS

[kcedergren at gmail.com (Kurt Cedergren)]

It's my opinion that the most energy efficient thing you can do is to 
maintain and drive your existing car as long as possible, vs, trading up to 
a new energy efficient vehicle. To trade in a gas hog (not that yours is) 
with only 130,000 miles on it for an energy efficient vehicle could result 
in a NET SUM energy loss. What you'd save in gasoline might be offset by the 
energy required to produce the new vehicle.
My 1997 Ford Taurus (whats the opposite of Green?) has 180,000 well 
maintained miles on it and I fully expect it to go past 200,000. 

Onestep


On 6/7/05, bluetrail@aol.com <bluetrail@aol.com> wrote:
> 
> My beloved '97 Plymouth minivan (V-6) now has 130,000 miles on it <snip> I 
> plan to drive it until it rolls into a ditch and begs for mercy.
> 
> Just the same, it gets about 22 mph highway and probably 18 mph city now 
> that it's long in the tooth, and the mileage gives me a guilty conscience. 
>