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You Auto Be Greener – Buy Used Cars, Not Hybrids
By The Apostle | May 20, 2008
If adoped, such ideas would make Detroit’s woes worse, but as Wired magazine reports, it’s actually better for the environment to buy a used car than to buy a hybrid.
The basis is that it takes 113 million BTUs of energy to manufacture a new hybrid car – equal to 1,000 gallons of gas. Buy buying a used car, you’re not empowering automakers to keep cranking out more cars when we’ve got lots of used ones already on the road and in used dealer lots. Isn’t “Reuse” one of the Three Rs of conservation?
Perhaps we should go one step further and start actively retrofitting exisiting cars with new technology – biodiesel, hybrid, and so forth.
Here’s hoping that Johnathan Goodwin (with his 100mpg Lincoln Continental and 60mpg Hummer) and other talented and forward-thinking mechanics are the new Henry Fords.
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