arharris2

Can you make the brownie that Leslie Knope is talking about here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMF9S68O780

I'm not a Sandra Bullock fan.

I'm glad that you realize that your delivery of the information was off on that episode. It came off as you saying that buying an electric car won't help anything, whereas your argument was that keeping an already existing gasoline car was better than buying a brand new electric car. Of course, your logic was a little off because in reality, a working used car will just be sold to someone else and somewhere down the line, a much older non-working car will be retired and recycled.

Somewhere in this whole process of hand-me-down cars, someone has to purchase a new vehicle for it to enter into the process and it might as well be an electric car.

Legitimate question: does anyone from outside the quad cities call it the quad cities?

Mostly because I've never even heard of most of those places.

But eventually (nearly) every car will die and it will become unreasonable to repair it. If everyone out there was only buying used cars and no new vehicles were ever being produced, eventually there would be no more cars because all of them would have been either destroyed or past their useful life. Therefore, a subset of the car buying public must at some point buy a new car for any new cars to ever be introduced into the used car market.

The goal, in reality should be to extend a car's useful life to the point at which its continued use would produce more CO2 than the building and use of a newer, more efficient car and then recycle it.

Electric cars are the perfect candidates for new cars because apart from the battery packs (which are recyclable) their drivetrain should have a much longer lifespan than that of a comparable ICE car and therefore have a smaller carbon footprint over the course of its life.