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That old truck will pollute less in its lifetime than the amount of energy it takes to produce a modern automobile, let alone the cumulative energy spent to sustain a consumer base ready to sign a new lease every 36 months for the latest and greatest in aggregated conflict minerals + spyware on wheels, it just does it all over the poors someplace else instead of where you live.


Not true at all: 80% of pollution from an ICE vehicle is from driving it (fuel and servicing).


are you counting the energy that went into producing that old truck in this statement?




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