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jnoshea:
I just wrote the following to greenpeace.  I wonder what their reply will be?

Dear Greenpeace,

I'm a little confused after reading your website.  I live in a super-insulated house, all my bulbs are low energy, all my appliances are the highest A rating of their kind.  I am a university scientist researching into solar cells. I walk to work. I buy my electricity from Good Energy so it comes from windfarms and waterfalls. We never fly abroad for our holidays.  We only have one car...a 10 year old Land Rover discovery. It does around 30 mpg and has 7 seats, we regularly use 6 of them.  Should I scrap it and buy a brand new car?  How much energy will it take to scrap it? More importantly, how much energy will it take to make the brand new car? Compare these figures to my emissions over the next 10 years and how much energy has been saved by keeping this car going instead of the making a new one every three years, and let me know how you get on.  Personally, I think all cars that burn fossil fuels are bad.  Why not focus your attention on gettting the fuel changed, not the efficiency of the cars that use it? It's pointless quibbling about 30 mpg or even 100 mpg. If it's fossil fuel we're burning, 100 mpg is still very bad in terms of climate change don't you agree?  I do my bit, in fact I do more than most to halt climate change and I operate a small tree nursery to grow trees that reabsorb my family's carbon emissions. Try not to make people like me, who actually care about the environment, take the blame because it's the easy route for you.  I fear that you have chosen to attack 4x4 owners because it is an emotive topic as they are often linked with wealth and greed, but remember that you are not going to halt climate change by doing this, only create a climate of contempt.  You are allowing non 4x4 drivers to not feel guilty about their own emissions because you provide them with a way to feel like they are making a difference, simply by hating someone else who they think is the real cause of the problem. I used to have the deepest respect for Greenpeace, now I will need a lot more convincing.  If you truly think that I should scrap my 10 year old Land Rover and buy a brand new car, then please let me know which one I should buy and explain why.

I would appreciate an intelligent debate on this subject.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Best regards

James

barmiebrumie:
I bet they never get it, it will be lost in syberspace :!: .


john.

muddyweb:
My money is on a standard form response....

Best of luck James...  you are trying to apply knowledge, sense and rational argument...  how dare you !

TimM:

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If you get any response at all....

Well worded though, the only logical answer to your query is to keep the Land Rover AND BE PROUD OF IT!

They should give you an award, not a 'label'.

littlepow:
I doubt you'll get an intellegent reply. Probably just a rant about how your car undoes all your good work.

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