Posted on 10/23/2019 5:06:31 AM PDT by BurgessKoch
They are an enormous cause of emissions, and deadly to pedestrians? Is it time for automakers to stop selling them or cities to stop allowing them on their streets?
Over the last decade, global SUV ownership has doubled. In that time, the vehicles contributed more to the increase in global CO2 emissions than airlines, trucks, or heavy industry, according to an analysis by the International Energy Agency. Even if we add nearly 150 million electric cars to the road by 2040, if SUV ownership grows at its current rate, they’ll offset that entire emissions reduction. And while they’re spewing emissions, they also have a more tangible cost: They’re more likely than smaller cars to kill pedestrians, contributing to a steep rise in pedestrian deaths.
Now some environmental nonprofits argue that automakers shouldn’t be making the vehicles at all, and some politicians are beginning to argue that they should be banned—if not from everywhere, then at least from city streets. In September, when a 3-year-old, his grandmother, and two men in their twenties were killed by an SUV in Berlin (coincidentally, on the same day that the German newspaper Handelsblatt ran a feature article about the growth in SUVs with the headline “SUV insanity“), hundreds of people protested the next day. The next weekend, thousands of people protested at the Frankfurt Auto Show to denounce the climate damage from the SUVs that automakers were promoting at the show ...
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That gun sure has some strange attachments; front and rear!
Try an old 69-73 OPEL GT for low...
I'd bet it can go from 60 to 0 in less than 1/4 of a second!
LOL
I remember those. Don’t remember sitting in one.… but I can imagine
I have 4 1/2 of them; sitting in a storage shed; rusting away.
I should get them to folks who have the time and energy to resurrect them.
I own resurrected vehicles or more correctly my kids have them and I have an unresurrected 71 cutlass that doesn’t need resurrecting. Of course I don’t drive it enough. I figure it will soon be passed down.
My antique firearms get more attention and use.
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