* It requires energy to build everything, including cars.

* By nature of their design & manufacturing details, some cars are more
expendable than others. Therefore, their early demise and replacement
represents an earlier requirement for more energy use.

* Careful with this one: Regardless of the type of vehicle, some are made
more expendable due to the actions of the people who buy them.


This is the question: What could consumers do to reduce the tendency of
vehicles to be more quickly expendable?


Interesting, all this talk about the expendability and wastefulness of
certain types of cars. Odd, considering the nature of the group, that no
one has mentioned the expendability and wastefulness of pleasure boats and
the vehicles required to haul them around, assuming they're towable.
Heresy, or is it that goring an ox that lives a bit too close to home?

Let the stoning of the heretic begin.