In reply to Jones Beene's message of Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:44:50 -0700: Hi, Cars always migrate through the population as they get older. If we introduce a larger percentage of efficient vehicles at the top, then they will eventually filter down. The gas guzzlers will also eventually get taken off the bottom and scrapped. It will take decades, but eventually they will all be gone (with the exception of that tiny percentage kept as "antiques").
>The green world is fraught with irony - not the least of which is the >relationship between plant growth and CO2 levels. Lets not go there. Please. > >The unintended consequences problem with the new Volt, being rushed into >production, or any electric vehicle is this: will it be used by the >purchaser as an additional vehicle instead of a full replacement, and what >happens to the gas guzzler that she trades-in for the PHEV? . [hint: "not >my problem" is NOT the correct answer] > >If it is not a full replacement, then this is not something positive for the >environment, regardless of "efficiency". One vehicle is always better then >two, ecologically, and a 'sunk cost' in an SUV is better than a new Prius if >the SUV gets used more often by its new owner than you were using it. Even >when the present vehicle is an older model guzzler, there are secondary >implications to consider - without a national effort to remove gas guzzlers >forever, even newer SUVs. How? [snip] Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
