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Originally Posted by Othen
Wonderful Mitch,
Of course the equation is even more in favour of the Amazon in that a new car still uses fuel. Let's assume it produces about half the CO (so 0.21kg/mile) that Aunt Maud does. If 'y' is the annual mileage, then Aunt Maud produces 0.42y kg/year of CO, and a new petrol car every 8 years makes (6000/8)+0.21y kg/year. A bit of simple mathematics gives a break-even point of y=3,571 miles/year.
I'm enjoying gloating from my moral high ground.
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China alone makes about 25million cars/year. Safe to say folk plodding around in old classics aren't the problem. :-)