11tonnes here so Im killing it softly

 

.. with your song.. killing it softly?

 

Let me focus my point a little more sharply.

There is no way a car will ever, EVER be a green animal. For auto manufacturers to claim to be so is shameful. They act like getting better gas mileage and reducing emissions makes them honorable. Reducing those, my peeps, constitutes just the tip of the iceburg. What about all the energy that is consumed in manufacturering cars. What about the resulting CO2 and other pollutants from manufacturing?

But MOST of all WHAT ABOUT THIS!!!

Click the "Details" tab.

Hugo Neu shreds cars and builds landfills with the resulting "fluff". Poisons that will NEVER go away are concentrated in these monuments to our passion for driving.

This is insane!

 

The guilt-ridden Environmental extremists out there are ruining the debate.

I will not listen to someone who is a hypocrite.
RE: Al Gore with 5 Black SUV's in his entourage vacationing on Figure 8 island.

Unless they are riding their bicycle to work like the guy who rides his recombant bicycle on Smith Creek Parkway every day. He rides it in the rain, snow, sleet, day and night, and I mean every day.

Now, I will listen to him.

 

Oh, BTW, before you all get in a tizzy, one of my vehicles is a 42mpg Volkswagen Jetta TDI.

 

I agree with VFROOOM

 

My trees like to be hugged . . . I do it every day

I heard two news reports in the last week related to ethanol as a motor fuel. First, there is a shortage of corn tortillas in Mexico; these are a staple of the average Mexican's daily diet. Second, any further increase in ethanol production in the US for E85 will rasie food proces in the US.

Why? Because the current ethanol production comes from plain old fermentation of food-grade corn. Just the kernels, not the cobs or the stalks. Is ethanol truly a renewable energy reseource when the fertilizer that is required to grow the corn is made form natural gas -- a very scarce and expensive energy resources?

My daughter's 06 Civic with 5-spd auto gets 35 mpg in daily driving around the DC area and 38-42 cruising the interstates. The better approach is more Civic's and more Jetta-TDI's on the road.

To "fuel" the E85 debate, try this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E85