the new Honda Prius...er I mean Insight

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Originally Posted by Ebbs15

VERY good point...
I wonder... if you take someone who owns a 1975 Chevy pickup (we'll pretend it's running ) with a big gas guzzler motor... and could some how measure the amount of polution and harm done to the enviroment by him... and compare it to someone who's purchased a new vehicle every 4 or 5 years.

Accounting for all the emissions of the plants that created the new vehicles... I think the 75 Chevy might be alot greener than one might normally think.

Zactly! NOT buying a new car saves more than buying one that gets better mileage, but there is no money in it for the auto manufacturers.

Think of all the mining for the metals, the smelting of those metals into the alloys used, the machining, the molding, the production of the chemicals that make up all the plastics and synthetics, the chemicals in the batteries, the electricity used in all those processes, the gas burned by all those employees getting to and from work, the ecological cost of all the tooling, the ecological cost of all the travel to all the auto shows, the ecological cost of all the paper for all the marketing materials.


It's staggering. If you bought a car and drove it for 10 years instead of 5, you would do more good for the environment than just about anything else you could do.


Even more than keeping your tires inflated.