Re: Economics of retaining an older car, versus a buying a new car

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Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 10:57:08 -0500
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Subject: Re: Economics of retaining an older car, versus a buying a new car
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On Jul 6, 6:30 am, Pete <s...@n...com> wrote:
>
> Another reason I heard recently for hanging on to an old car, or buying a
> *used* one, is that it takes the equivalent of 1,000 gallons of gas/petrol
> to make a new car.

Which means absolutely nothing. The energy used to build it might
have come from solar or wind plants and it would still be equivalent
to 1000gals. of gas.

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