Augustine <e...@m...com> wrote:
> 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.

And no matter the source, 15,9375,000 BTUs of energy is 15,9375,000 BTUs
of energy. Personally, I expect that a car's construction uses
considerably more energy than that, but I don't have access to the
source data to see what they might have missed.

BTW, according to
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/Research.html#an
chor_72 a car's
construction uses over 1,000 gallons of oil, not gas.

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