Fuel economy hasn't improved in 100 years - Mother Nature Network (blog)
” Without the pollution equipment that started arriving on cars in the mid-1960s, classics and antiques are big polluters. And that’s why, starting as early as this summer, the city of Paris is working to ban cars registered before Dec. The Daily Telegraph reported, back in 2012 when talk of the ban got underway, “If the measures go ahead, classic old cars like 2CVs, Peugeot 205s and Renault 4Ls will be a thing of the past in the capital, along with sputtering but charming old... ” Owners of those cars and motorcycles were up in arms. There was an outcry when the 2009 Cash for Clunkers program was announced — from classic car owners. The basic gripe was that the program would take great parts cars out of circulation. Here’s an argument against Cash for Clunkers from old car “bible” Hemmings Motor News. “Creating more and more new cars by artificially shortening the lifespan of old cars generates pollution and [a] waste of energy, while keeping an old car on the road simply does not. The longer one can keep an old car on the road, the fewer hits the environment takes during a new car’s production. This is a pretty threadbare argument, because the environmental impact of making a car is at. Source: www.mnn.com
