I am thoroughly confused about what car to drive
We keep hearing about the desirability of hybrid cars which are great but I worry about recycling the batteries afterwards.
The new European regulations are forcing the manufacturers to produce much more fuel efficient vehicles and I am inclined to think about the new fuel efficient small diesel cars that apparently have about the same impact as the hybrid cars.
Over the weekend while I was at the Ecoliving Expo, I saw a hydrogen adaptation on a family sized petrol car which was supposedly the “bee’s knees” and saved an enormous amount of fuel. I did not get my head around it because it was surrounded by a large number of excited males muttering about butterfly valves or some such and I decided to take a card and find out about this technology peacefully when there was less testosterone in the air.
I personally drive a slowing aging large duel fuel car which runs about 75% of the time on LPG (liquid petroleum gas) and 25% on petrol. This actually has a much lower carbon emission than an all petrol vehicles and is actually very efficient to run. A few months ago I had a minor traffic accident and was horrified by the fuel consumption of the much smaller hatchback car I was lent which seemed to positively guzzle fuel. In the foreseeable future I will be changing cars as mine continues to age and as parking spaces seem to get smaller but for the moment it appears to me that it is having a relatively low impact and I frequently walk, ride my bicycle or catch the bus that stops by my door. Some things need a car though and I have started to address what my options will be.
The large car is the legacy of doing a large amount of rural driving when I was working predominantly onsite with lots of individual businesses. One driver for developing my services as group training and especially online training is to reduce my need to travel.
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