Ahh, Today I must smog my car. What a wonderful word Smog is. Not quite FOG, not quite SMOKE, but SMOG. Isn't it a nice reminder of the unintended consequences of getting from point A to point B. Auto companies are definitely striving to increase their competitive advantage by lowering their emissions. Just look at Toyota's goal of increasing 40% of it's Hybrid sales for 2007 (courtesy of Treehugger.com).
Drive around town though and look at all those cars. If we all buy Hybrids what happens to all the SUV's, Datsun's, and Chargers? Crushed? Stripped? Well . . . Peak Oil News and Message Boards has your answer with a 101 uses for a dead car. While "Use as prop in a theater production called 'road warrior,'" sounds interesting and fun, perhaps the design of the internals can actually be useful in our other energy needs:
"The transmission and driveshaft might be of use in a water powered, makeshift machine shop. The possibilities for using engine parts are probably endless if a person is creative." -BastardSquad
With oil getting closer and closer to $10/ gallon. Cough. And with Biofuels not providing the answer we are looking for. At what point does taking the bus sound attractive? National gas averages
For all those people that want to support their current lifestyle of driving down to the shopping center and loading up for their weekend on the powerboat. You would think that at some point those consumers would want to concentrate on saving our fuel for trucking durable goods. But I think that awareness will come only when they experience the actual scarcity.
I think biking down the freeway sound fun, but thats just me.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
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Why on earth does a household, or perhaps politically correct.... urban domestic caretaker "need" an SUV to transport thir kids, groceries and whatnot to and from the neighborhood school, grocery store, mall and sports club? What a waste of our precious rescources. Whatever became of bicycles, and WALKING! Are we as a society so busy getting ahead that we've forgotten our responsibility to our environment and ourselves?
ReplyDeleteI live in a climate that has over 300 sunny days a year, yet our dependency on the gas gluttons is overwhelming because we "must have them" to go to the mountains, shopping and etc.
I find it repulsive.