This a list of supposed "green cars." These cars are supposedly environmentally friendly. http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center-top100/ The list is mostly of hybrids and they are mostly foreign cars.
In actuality any old car is much more environmentally friendly than these new cars. First a car that has lasted fifty years has saved a lot of energy, because it did not need to be replaced. Cars are not grown in fields. It takes a lot of energy to build a car - probably the equivalent of a few years of driving. In an old car parts can be rebuilt. A carburetor, fuel pump, power steering components take only a few smal pieces in an old car to be made brand new. On a new car you need to replace the part. The big part you take out on a new car ends up on a landfill. The large number of batteries in these hybrids is also an environmental disaster. Will all the acid and lead in these batteries be recycled when they need to be replaced. I doubt it.
A old car is green, no matter its color. Most yuppies buying these supposedly "green cars" are too ignorant to see that.
Alexander
1959 Hardtop
1960 Golde Top
In actuality any old car is much more environmentally friendly than these new cars. First a car that has lasted fifty years has saved a lot of energy, because it did not need to be replaced. Cars are not grown in fields. It takes a lot of energy to build a car - probably the equivalent of a few years of driving. In an old car parts can be rebuilt. A carburetor, fuel pump, power steering components take only a few smal pieces in an old car to be made brand new. On a new car you need to replace the part. The big part you take out on a new car ends up on a landfill. The large number of batteries in these hybrids is also an environmental disaster. Will all the acid and lead in these batteries be recycled when they need to be replaced. I doubt it.
A old car is green, no matter its color. Most yuppies buying these supposedly "green cars" are too ignorant to see that.
Alexander
1959 Hardtop
1960 Golde Top
Comment