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Subject: [OM] Re: [OM][OT] Further chillies now German Cars
From: Rob Harrison <robhar@xxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 08:48:20 -0800
Depends on how old the car is. Rocky Mountain Institute <http:// 
rmi.org/> did a study for California about 15 years ago that found  
that the cheapest way to reduce emissions was to buy up old, poorly  
tuned clunkers and give their owners new cars.  Amory Lovins is  
brilliant.

Rob in Seattle


On Dec 10, 2005, at 3:30 AM, Chris Barker wrote:

>> The basic tenet of
>> Bangernomics is that it is WAY CHEAPER to buy a well looked-after,
>> secondhand car and drive it until it suffers a critical failure than
>> it is to change a new car every 2 or 3 years.
>>
>> It is also much better for the environment -- unless it is one of
>> those pretty ugly looking DODGE RAM THINGIES


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