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This is pretty much what average drivers already do. |
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I'll give the same answer I did for the Y-Prize idea, a SS VW Bug. Though I guess I'd add a 10 gallon oil sump system and a 20 gallon windshield washer tank (or maybe one that recovered rain water). |
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Probably same mods on a Merc 180D, Checker cab or VW diesel would work also. |
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Tires would be a problem, not flats, just treads don't last that long. |
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Most modern cars, Japanese cars at least, only require oil changes and tire inflation up to about 80K miles, so what's the real issue here? If you can afford a new car every few years, you should be set, otherwise, sort out who does the maintenance in the family unit. Personally, my Honda is 17 years old. I just changed the front rotors, calipers, disk pads and drive axle bearings for about $300 USD and a good hard day of labor. I expect this car to run for another 10 years and get 30+ MPG, as it currently does. Waste not, want not. |
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Remember, "reduce, re-use, recycle"? Too often today recyclability is intended to happen instead of use/production reduction and re-use. Sometimes it is even a cynical attempt to render them impractical. |
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The true ideal of "reduce, re-use, recycle" is rather that one ought hardly ever to have to recycle. It is the last resort. |
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