Do You Feel Guilty Owning A Car?

[greaves]

This is a thread and a hot topic that is never going to go away.

You may not like it, but so long as you - yes YOU! - own a car, you are polluting the planet we all live in.

And if you don't feel guilty about polluting the world, you should be ashamed of yourself.

 

[bigblock]

I don't harbor even one ounce of guilt for owning a car. As a matter of fact, I own two.

Both are V8-powered, rear-wheel-drive, body-on-frame cars. My Cadillac weighs roughly 6500 pounds, is 21 feet in length, has a 7.7L engine that gets 9 mpg highway and runs on premium fuel only. My Lincoln is slightly smaller, lighter, newer, and more fuel efficient, and it's large by today's standards. Why do I drive large cars? Because I can.

I don't feel guilty for operating my cars, either. My work is 32 miles from my house, and the nearest town to me is 12 miles. Other forms of transportation aren't realistic options.

 

[alfaPA]

I don't harbor even one ounce of guilt for owning a car. As a matter of fact, I own two.

My Cadillac weighs roughly 6500 pounds, is 21 feet in length, has a 7.7L engine that gets 9 mpg highway and runs on premium fuel only. My Lincoln is slightly smaller, lighter, newer, and more fuel efficient, and it's large by today's standards. Why do I drive large cars? Because I can.

My work is 32 miles from my house, and the nearest town to me is 12 miles. Other forms of transportation aren't realistic options.

Wow. A Cadillac and a Lincoln. Talk about babe magnets. Though I can't remember the last time I saw someone less than 65 years old driving them..

 

[sherman]

I love my cars...I don't feel guilty, I can only drive one at a time

 

[herenthere]

I don't have a car right now...I have not driven since the accident...but I plan to take that bull by the horns one of these days....

 

[Shepherd 2]

Feel guilty?
How would I get around, in my wheel chair?
No, my big cadillac suv is my way to go.
Hell, they can bury me in it if they want to.
Shep+

 

[jackoroe]

Not guilt here. I'm down to just three cars. I've had as many as five. But I can still only drive one at a time.

 

[bigblock]

Wow. A Cadillac and a Lincoln. Talk about babe magnets. Though I can't remember the last time I saw someone less than 65 years old driving them..

I've always been in love with Lincolns... my brother once told me that a Lincoln is the last set of wheels you get before they're mounted to a chair. LOL.

 

[Jory]

This is a thread and a hot topic that is never going to go away.

You may not like it, but so long as you - yes YOU! - own a car, you are polluting the planet we all live in.

And if you don't feel guilty about polluting the world, you should be ashamed of yourself.

So what do you want me to get rid of my car find a job down the street and stay home? Guess what that is not going to happen. Where I live and all the rest in Califoria if you don't live right in the three major cities San Francico, Los Angeles, and San Diego you need your car to get around I do try to find jobs as close to where I lived as possible or that pay enough that I can move closer to the job. but right now if I want to go West Hollywood I just get in my car take the Interstate 5 north to the 101 North Get off at Santa Monica Blvd turn left drive a couple of miles park a total of 28 miles and have a good time not having to worry oh the last bus leave at.... So no I have no shame and I am damn proud of it.

But remember let he who is with sin cast the first stone and I mean any kind of sin.

 

[VICTORIADON]

No

Not at all

Why should I?

 

[Jory]

No

Not at all

Why should I?

I sure don't so why should you?

 

[Jory]

This is a thread and a hot topic that is never going to go away.

You may not like it, but so long as you - yes YOU! - own a car, you are polluting the planet we all live in.

And if you don't feel guilty about polluting the world, you should be ashamed of yourself.

So are you everytime you go to the store to buy something thing how it got there a big old truck delievered to the store. Think of that next time.

 

[Jory]

I got a new truck last week...gets 5-6 miles per gallon....

http://www.justusboys.com/forum/showthread.php?t=172199

who post a picture of it here

 

[greaves]

So are you everytime you go to the store to buy something thing how it got there a big old truck delievered to the store. Think of that next time.

Read the thread title.

It does not ask if you own a truck, a bus, a tram, a train, a canal boat, a plane, an oil tanker,...

The biggest polluters of planet earth are CARS.

Here are the stats for the UK, which is far behind the biggest polluting nation in the world, which is...well I guess you know already...

http://www.rin.org.uk/pooled/articles/BF_NEWSART/view.asp?Q=BF_NEWSART_59608

 

[Hudson402]

Dont feel guilty at all. I have to drive about 30min to work each day. However, I did get a new car that is amazing on gas and a little more environmentally friendly

 

[JR]

Not at all. I am always concerned about the impact and do what i can to minimize it, but guilt would not be the word i would use.

Rather than owning a car, I think of what i do as preserving the past. I own three classic cars and intend to preserve and protect them as much as possible. I do not drive more than 3,000 miles a year so my impact is fairly minimal despite the vehicles I choose to operate.

It is interesting that people are mostly concerned with how much gas they consume rather than the amount of carbon dioxide or other pollutants they release. 2 of my vehicles release the old fashioned toxins rather than carbon dioxide. So I am respectful of how much those are driven and I keep those engines operating well to minimize impact. And one of the cars has been driven less than 100 miles in 10 years. Relative to the one that expels carbon dioxide, I maintain a green oasis on my property in the middle of a city. I have the largest trees in Miami on my property. They more than consume whatever carbon dioxide I can possibly produce. And the ecosystem they provide is amazing.

Another issue that I am quite proud of in the face of complaints about conserving fuel is that I choose to preserve the past and not release insane toxins into the environment to produce a new vehicle. And what is this nonsense about preserving our oil reserves? There are so many ways to produce better energy than oil, that I could not possibly be sad about the possibility of seeing them getting reduced. Why do we care about preserving this type of energy for future generations when it isn't such a great resource in the first place.

This is what I am interested in preserving. Her name is Sadie and she is 51 years old this year.

 

[nijuusei]

to further add to your guilt ^^"

UK Telegraph - "Eating beef ' is less green than driving"

Producing 2.2lb of beef generates as much greenhouse gas as driving a car non-stop for three hours, it was claimed yesterday.

Japanese scientists used a range of data to calculate the environmental impact of a single purchase of beef.

Taking into account all the processes involved, they said, four average sized steaks generated greenhouse gases with a warming potential equivalent to 80.25lb of carbon dioxide.

This also consumed 169 megajoules of energy.
That means that 2.2lb of beef is responsible for greenhouse gas emissions which have the same effect as the carbon dioxide released by an ordinary car travelling at 50 miles per hour for 155 miles, a journey lasting three hours. The amount of energy consumed would light a 100-watt bulb for 20 days.

Most of the greenhouse gas emissions are in the form of methane released from the animals' digestive systems, New Scientist magazine reported.

But more than two thirds of the energy used goes towards producing and transporting cattle feed, said the study, which was led by Akifumi Ogino from the National Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science in Tsukuba, Japan.

Su Taylor, the press officer for the Vegetarian Society, told New Scientist: "Everybody is trying to come up with different ways to reduce carbon footprints, but one of the easiest things you can do is to stop eating meat."

personally i don't require a car,
nor do i see myself needing one in the near future
public transport takes me everywhere i need to go ^_-

 

[RicanDAB]

I don't feel guilty for having a car here. It's a necessity, especially when for my job I have a territory that spans 50 miles from home. Although I do admit I will now ride my bike for errands less than 5 miles, and that's only in an effort to save gas money. When I lived in Manhattan, having my car was a luxury and if I ever returned I would no longer have one. Parking is enough of a headache!

Down here in FL, many people have these monster pickups and it's more of a stupid status thing ... and you know they are hurtin' when they fill up that tank!!

 

[star-warrior]

Is it not time for car owners to admit they are polluting the planet, and to find alternative ways to travel?

Good grief, what a completely loaded question.

Practically everything you have modern in your house contributes to the pollution on this planet, from what you shit out of your arse and pee out of your genitals to the stuff you slap on your face, the detergents you use to clean your face with to all the power you consume in your home and portable equiptment you listen whilst going down the street. Why would you single out one thing and demonise it, when it is plainly hypocritical not mentioning all the other ways you pollute the world around you.

If you breathed less, maybe you'd not pump so much greenhouse gas into the atmosphere.

 

[chillyboi]

No' fraid not