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Originally Posted by crockett
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.
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that's not the point though. this isn't about the government or general numbers, the question was does ********** conserve and the answer is no. It's not a generalized question, it's specific. True conservationists do not add to the problem, they subtract from it, i.e. conserve.
Moreover, one does not have to buy that much of an older car or a pos car to conserve. Canada has GOBS of clean diesel cars for sale there and has for years. A 5 year old VW TDI with 75000 miles on it has already amortized most its' carbon footprint and someone who is interested in cleaning up the environment and not polluting would purchase that car to conserve energy, not a brand new car that also, by the way, has a much larger manufacturing carbon footprint than a clean diesel.
there is a mountain of data online to corroborate what I just wrote too.