Carbon Offset.....
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anonymous-user

Original Poster:

77 months

Thursday 10th January 2008
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Followed a Prius for a while today - occured to me that we made a pretty good carbon neutral footprint.....

Then I burnt him off! (OK - not too hard it has to be said, but it felt good!!)

Oh Well - that's my environmentally friendly attempt for the year.

stevieturbo

17,951 posts

270 months

Thursday 10th January 2008
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Its hard to know when Prius will be enviromentally friendly....in fact, it may never be.

So just right to show its owner how pathetic they are for buying one biggrin

ads_green

838 posts

255 months

Thursday 10th January 2008
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Southpark got it right - they are powered by pure smug.

swordfishcoupe

503 posts

243 months

Thursday 10th January 2008
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Hi Mr B,

I hope you were not really burning him off, most of those people really like to see a big v8 just slowly wafting past them - you can even give them a quick wave if you fancy

If you really did try and burn him off, I very much hope you killed it or that rebuilt engine of yours has a problem !!

My car is not too bad (footprint wise) as I only do low mileage in it - that my excuse anyway - LOL.

Cheers
Steven

Edited by swordfishcoupe on Thursday 10th January 22:59

wolfracer

2,074 posts

229 months

Thursday 10th January 2008
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i was overtaken today by a prius as i was attempting to get from birmingham to cardiff and maintain 30+mpg. I failed, but only just as my will power ran out on a straight bit somewhere on the M50......

anonymous-user

Original Poster:

77 months

Saturday 12th January 2008
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swordfishcoupe said:
Hi Mr B,
If you really did try and burn him off, I very much hope you killed it or that rebuilt engine of yours has a problem !!


:-))

Engine going strong - checking the oil regularly and it doesn't seem to loosing nearly as much since it was done, so it's all good here!

As for the Prius - I did him no harm!

granada203028

1,500 posts

220 months

Sunday 13th January 2008
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Trouble with Priuses is that their drivers don't make the best of them. They have come past me on the motorway at 85, what is the point of that? Probably barely twice as economical as the Monaro. I saw a bloke drop off is wife out side Sainsbury's. Could have gone to a parking space just on his battery but of course he went gunning off and the engine cut in. Priuses only make sense under limited circumstances.

I think the Monaro is relatively "green". I've paid HM government more than 10K in VAT and fuel duty for them to spend on the environment, schools and hospitals, foreign wars etc. Air travel and domestic energy carries virtually no tax at all. And as a specialist interest low volume car the Monaro is likely to have a long life. Its relative simplicity makes it easy to maintain. Had it all in bits already...

wolfracer

2,074 posts

229 months

Sunday 13th January 2008
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Decided to delete my footprint altogether and have bought 8 trees for my garden. by the time they are fully grown i reckon nature will owe me a few dirty great big black footprints.....

Misker

46 posts

259 months

Monday 14th January 2008
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Even easier


From the UK government:

If every Briton purchased one item made from recycled wool a year it would save 371 million gallons of water, 480 tonnes of chemical dyes and 4571 million days of an average family's electricity needs [source: UK Gov]


Now 4571 million days equals 12 million years, so that would power 12 million families for one year, so if we all buy 2 items made of recycled wool a year, that saves enough energy for 24 million families, which is the approximate number in the UK.

If every year we all buy these two articles we have saved the UK's domestic electric output, year after year.

Thus solving the energy crisis.

pixie83

56 posts

220 months

Monday 14th January 2008
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Nice logic! lol