My husband wasn't even watching the thing, he just passed through the room while some of us were watching, and he stopped abruptly and asked exactly what I was thinking, "So, who's buying the old car? What good does that do?"
Seriously- a meaningful act of service would be for him to GIVE that SUV to a larger, low-income family, or a foster home, or a camp for under-privileged children.
And environmentally, the soundest thing he could do is keep driving his car:
"The argument that it is better for the environment to replace the
older cars is one that is absurd to anyone with the least bit of
understanding of what goes into a car. The costs of building a car are
neglected by the technically ignorant people that make up the majority
of political representatives. The energy and resources that go into
building a vehicle need to be made up by the better efficiency of the
new one. This takes time. So much time that the 'new' car will likely
be old and used up by the time it breaks even with keeping the old one
around. It is much more environmentally sound to restore the existing
car or at the very least keep using it until it is uneconomical to."
It's like building a brand-new environmentally super 'green' and sustainable house. You can use cork floors and solar panels and face the correct direction and have double paneled windows and radiant floor heating and all those goodies, but it doesn't change the fact that it's a NEW house, and it would be even more environmentally sound to buy an old one that's already standing and live in it. Pin It
