"RCE" wrote in message
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"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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"RG" wrote in message
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Now you're dancing. Humor me. What could consumers do to reduce the
need to manufacture so many vehicles?

Drive them less, maintain them better. In other words, make them last
longer.


How about changing what they buy, and HOW they buy? Perhaps leasing
should be on the hit list, at least for non-business customers. That
almost guarantees that someone won't hang onto a car very long. Some cars
are still babies when they're two years old, so selling them used is
easy. Others are known to be middle aged at 2 years, and you can see them
lined up at any dealership, collecting dust. That's wasteful.


But aren't the people buying used cars reducing the amount of new cars to
be manufactured?

(this is fun)

RCE


It *should* reduce waste, assuming the manufacturers don't keep pumping out
so many new ones that they also sit on the lots for a year at a time.
Unfortunately, they do.