...and on that note: Has anyone ever made a full accounting of the
pollution produced in the manufacturing of a new car? All of it?
Including the manufacturing of all the plastic, rubber, smelting,
the electricity used in each step, etc.?
How much pollution has each of us foregone by not buying a new car?
The auto industry would like us to believe that we can best contribute
to the ecology effort by buying a new car every three years because
a new car is incrementally less polluting than its predecessors. So
how long would you have to drive this new car to make the incremental
difference worthwhile?
Any of you academics with access to Cray XMP's want to tackle this
little simulation?
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