Quote:
Originally Posted by bennelson
I like used vehicles because they are already built. The embodied energy is already there. For a new car, it has to be built. The materials and energy need to get used to make the thing.
|
Don't forget that while continuing to drive old-ish cars, you're polluting way more than with a modern car because older cars' emissions are worse.
(IIRC, an early '90s car is polluting 6 times more than a new car for a given fuel consumption.)
So there definitely is a point where it's really better to recycle the old car for a new(er) one.