Buying a used car
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- vaxorcist0
But seriously..... if you don't mind the abuse, getting a big, unhip, overdone SUV may be cheap, as people are trying to get rid of them....
And... drive your hummer alot less, ride a bike some more.... and you're more green than a pious prius driver who commutes hundreds of miles a day....
in 1980, my dad bought a really cheap big old 1971 plymouth fury, after calculating that he'd have to get over 100 miles per gallon to make up the difference in the cost of the car versus a newer datsun.... as he didn't drive much at all.... so he, the rational physicist, decided he didn't mind the people calling him names, he also calculated that in environmental terms, building a new car takes a huge amount of energy, thus negating some of the gas mileage advantage....