26 Dec
2006
26 Dec
'06
2:26 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
(Sorry Jay, this is getting horribly OT)
Remember the total emissions of a car are not just
those which come out
of the exhaust pipe. There's also the issue of making the car in the
first place, and (alas) scrapping it. Some so-called
environmetnally-friendly cars are anything but if you look at the whole
picture.
Yes, but there's a point centred around the early 1990s when cars were
sophisticated enough to have relatively clean emissions, simple enough
to repair with ordinary tools, and not have things like airbags that are
of questionable use and really really horrible to try and dispose of.
Gordon