On: The rise of the disposable car

[constantcrying]

Cars from the 50s are less energy efficient and require more overall resources to maintain than a new car. They are also significantly less safe.

[skhunted → constantcrying]

I imagine the mining of materials, waste from discarded car, etc. makes up for these things but I don’t know. I do think overall we are a very wasteful society and we cause way too much pollution.

[bluGill → skhunted]

A scrapped car is recycled for the metals in it. So if you recycle the old car you can count much less costs against the new car.