Depends on how old the car is. Rocky Mountain Institute <http://
rmi.org/> did a study for California about 15 years ago that found
that the cheapest way to reduce emissions was to buy up old, poorly
tuned clunkers and give their owners new cars. Amory Lovins is
brilliant.
Rob in Seattle
On Dec 10, 2005, at 3:30 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
>> The basic tenet of
>> Bangernomics is that it is WAY CHEAPER to buy a well looked-after,
>> secondhand car and drive it until it suffers a critical failure than
>> it is to change a new car every 2 or 3 years.
>>
>> It is also much better for the environment -- unless it is one of
>> those pretty ugly looking DODGE RAM THINGIES
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