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Is An Old Volvo Green? 200 1985

posted by  Dukester on  Thu Dec 16 02:57 CST 2010
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Just musing here on a snow-day in Ohio...

I read recently that about 50% of the energy use associated with the life-cycle of a car is actually used to make the car. Then I thought about the Reduce, Reuse, Recycle mantra and how Reduce is mentioned first because it saves the most energy.

Does it not follow that my '85 244 that only gets about 25 mpg BUT which has REDUCED my need, over the last 25 years, to replace it with probably 2 or 3 new cars qualify it as green?

Dukester
'85 244 225K M46





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