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Originally Posted by dyna mo
You are still not getting it. You are not conserving by buying a new car.
Assuming they are going to build the car anyway simply assumes away the rule of supply and demand.
The simple fact is you do not conserve. No biggie to those of us that do but lets be real
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Well I drive an 86 Vanagon, so as far as new car carbon footprint I'm pretty sure I'm ahead of the game. However it's not fair to assume that everyone can get by with an older vehicle. If mine breaks I can fix pretty much anything on it myself, however others likely can not do the same. Meaning it's a given that new cars will have to be built and older cars will go by the way side.
So you would have to have some sort of govt mandate to limit the production of new cars, which also has effects on the economy & jobs as less cars built means a whole lot less jobs all the way through the auto manufacturing food chain. Be it the manufacturers, suppliers, dealers or the people whom cook their lunch and take out the trash.
This is why the govt doesn't put a mandate stopping new car production, but instead puts mandates on fuel economy. The idea being that as older cars get less emissions and worse fuel economy get put in the junk yards, the newer more fuel efficient cars take their place.