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Do You Feel Guilty Owning A Car?

Kulindahr: My job involves getting people who are unemployed back into work. l advise many of my clients to get a driving licence if they they do not have one. :cool: Many well-paid jobs - such as plumbers, carpenters, painters and decorators - require having your own transport. And having a driving licence greatly improves a person's chances of finding employment, whatever age they are.

A 55 year old client with a driving licence is much more employable than a 55 year old client without one.

What I'm asking in this this thread is do we need to use cars all the time? For everything we do?
 
I always get over 35mpg, so no, I don't feel guilty.

If I drove a hummer around town, then perhaps.
 
^ Like the born-again Christians say, Tyler, hate the sin not the sinner. ;)
 
EditorDave said:
Also, TylerKS, you sound like you're proud of the fact that your family spends over a grand a month in gas on your Hummer. Don't you find that a bit ridiculous?
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No its not just on my H2, thats gas for all of our cars.
 
I rarely use my car since i work 2 minutes from home and all my best friends live nearby. At the moment i rarely need to make journeys out of town except when I go to London or Brighton, when it's easier to take the train anyway so I do. I won't be doing much driving over the next three years anyway since i'll be at uni. I don't feel guilty about owning a car at all, there is only one car in our driveway and it's mine, i drive my mum places sometimes.

My car is pretty old and crappy, when i'm older and hopefully have money to buy a more reliable car i will be looking for one with good fuel economy, the main reason being the damn expense of petrol.
 
TylerKS said:
God everyone hates on the hummers around here LOL
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With good reason ;)

They're not practical vehicles. They don't serve a purpose, aside from boosting one's image whilst driving around the city.

Get a nice F150 or something- then you could at least....use it for something :badgrin:
 
smile86 said:
I rarely use my car since i work 2 minutes from home and all my best friends live nearby. At the moment i rarely need to make journeys out of town except when I go to London or Brighton, when it's easier to take the train anyway so I do. I won't be doing much driving over the next three years anyway since i'll be at uni. I don't feel guilty about owning a car at all, there is only one car in our driveway and it's mine, i drive my mum places sometimes.

My car is pretty old and crappy, when i'm older and hopefully have money to buy a more reliable car i will be looking for one with good fuel economy, the main reason being the damn expense of petrol.
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So why have you got a car in your driveway?
 
I love my car! It's a shiny red Camaro with a hot spoiler! Love my sports car and no one will ever make me feel bad for having it! :gogirl:
 
Ive had a car now for a little over the year, and i dont feel guilty at all.. I get maybe between 25-35 miles per gallon and my car only holds about 10-13 gallons.. pending on when i fill it up..

i would never get a truck.. i wouldnt want to be spending $100 each time i fill up
 
Don't know where to start so this might ramble a bit. Kyoto was not signed by the US due in part to Bush being an idiot and mostly that it won't be enforced. Do you really believe that those nations follow the accords?

One of the reasons for high gas prices being used in the media is emerging nations like China and India are now buying cars. Are they using unleaded fuel or catalytic converters? The US started this in the late 70's and early 80's. The Europeans waited nearly 30 years using the excuse of "high cost". Has anyone visited China, or Bangkok for that matter and seen all of the 2 cycle engines used for transport? They create and awful lot of pollution.

Germany created the super highway, Autobahn, it was expensive. Eisenhower was amazed when he saw it and used it as a model for the US highway system. Of course, after WWII, Europe was in shambles. Governments taxed cars, gas and created road taxes since only the wealthy owned cars. Governments could not afford to build highways so instead created mass transport systems, and thus the schizm between the US and the Europeans.
 
With yet another asinine thread about cars appearing on this forum today, it prompts me to re-ask this question.[-X
 
^ We have little public transportation here in the States so cars are a created necessity. I was in France and England in the fall and it was amazing to see that trains go to the most obscure places; we simply don't have that here.
 
Oh brother.
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Amen!

A load of hysteria is not gonna help...and theres a lot of stuff on this thread that misses the big picture...

1. Hybrids and electric cars are at best a band aid....where does the electricity come from???? The vast majority from coal fired power stations....

2. No one says that cars shouldnt be more efficient etc but making people feel guilty about a necessity is why most people refuse to act on enviromental issues

3. A few of the large car companies have publicly stated that they will not be beholden to the oil industry...so watch closely for cars like the GM Volt which is almost a self contained electric car as opposed to current hybrids, to make in roads along with hydrogen powered cars

4. Countries like China and India make Kyoto redundant. The enormous development and growth in these countries with the huge number of power stations being built to meet their demands far outstrips any savings we might make...I remember reading that it would only take China 12 months to strip away the gains made if the world signed Kyoto....

Does that make them wrong? To want to provide for their citizens?

5. Australia hasnt signed up to kyoto and yet we will still meet our targets...so does that make us bad?

6. Public transport is predominately diesel powered which while not directly causing greenhouse gases, produces other toxic emissions particularly in the high UV areas like the southern hemisphere...(although they are phasing some of them out like suphur)...is one problem better than the other?

Sure doing nothing is just crazy. And yes maybe we all do have to make some changes and sacrifices. But hysteria galvanizes people in either direction...and that just makes it harder to fix.

So...guilty for owning a car...no. Concerned that we need to do things better...yes.
 
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