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Originally Posted by dyna mo
Please explain to the group how buying a new car that just the manufacturing of dumped 20000 tons of carbon on the rest of us is good science.
Here's your chance.
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If you assume a car is going to be manufactured one way or another.. an electric or hybrid car will still be better in the long run. The talking heads that use that as an excuse always fail to remember that a fossil fuel powered car also has to be constructed and doing that also dumps carbon.
Meaning starting from the point both types of cars are produced, electric or hybrids are far better in the long run, because at some point that fossil fuel car was also built. Meaning it's not accurate to add the pollution created while building one but ignoring the other.
You have to assume new cars will always be built, because we live in a throw away society that thinks they need a new car every 2 to 4 years. Meaning the manufacturing process is built in to what ever car you buy, so if in the end it produces less carbon during it's use cycle it's still better.