UK picks up dust-to-dust
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10-05-2006, 03:59 AM
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UK picks up dust-to-dust
http://www.whatcar.com/news-special-...aspx?NA=222582
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he total amount is called the car's 'dust to dust' energy use. Previous studies have concluded that about 80% of the total energy used in a car's lifetime is consumed when it is being driven and the remaining 20% during its manufacture and recycling. CNW's report has turned that theory on its head, with a number of cars with supposedly good fuel economy and low CO2 emissions at the bottom of its results table.
Naturally, car makers disagree with the report. Ford, Toyota and Volvo say CNW has put too much emphasis on the manufacturing process and not enough on driving. . . ."
It looks like the CNW Marketing report has hit the UK:
http://www.abd.org.uk/pr/502.htm
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How Green Are Politicians?
Politicians of all colours are revealing a worrying degree of naivet� over the environmental credentials of cars, says the Association of British Drivers.
Chris Grayling's call for motorists to take the green option, at his party's Annual Conference, comes with the reassurance that the Conservative Party is not about to become anti-driver or anti-car as they know that cars are a vital part of everyday life. The ABD agrees with this statement of obvious truth and trusts that the common sense behind it will still be crystal clear to the electorate's 30 million motorists at the time of the next General Election.
Yet the messages given out, in advice and by example, are wrong. Even within the politicised science of climate change, where natural plant food gas (carbon dioxide) is used as an eco-yardstick, choosing a hybrid or any other car based solely on emission of carbon dioxide during on-road use is actually an ecologically unsound decision.
ABD Environment Spokesman Ben Adams explains: "Politicians are using carbon dioxide emissions as their criterion of choice. Accordingly they should use the dust-to-dust figures for a particular car, not figures based solely on emissions when in use. True vehicle life cycle energy costs — and hence total carbon dioxide emissions — are very different from those used in misguided attempts to force lifestyle changes on the public. For example the total life cycle energy costs of a Hummer H3 4x4 are 40% less than those of a typical hybrid car. Environmentalists would regard a Hummer as somehow obscene, yet like most 4x4s it has a smaller carbon footprint than hybrids, and by a wide margin." . . ."
The ABD is the Association of British Motorists and part of their lament is a conservative party leader has gone hybrid. But in this instance, they have bought CNW's dust-to-dust report 'hook, line and sinker.'
All I can suggest for our UK friends is to search the archives for our previous postings. Also, it seems one source has pointed out how unique and unsupported the dust-to-dust report remains. IMHO, this may be an even more effective point to research and share.
Bob Wilson
". . .
he total amount is called the car's 'dust to dust' energy use. Previous studies have concluded that about 80% of the total energy used in a car's lifetime is consumed when it is being driven and the remaining 20% during its manufacture and recycling. CNW's report has turned that theory on its head, with a number of cars with supposedly good fuel economy and low CO2 emissions at the bottom of its results table.
Naturally, car makers disagree with the report. Ford, Toyota and Volvo say CNW has put too much emphasis on the manufacturing process and not enough on driving. . . ."
It looks like the CNW Marketing report has hit the UK:
http://www.abd.org.uk/pr/502.htm
"
How Green Are Politicians?
Politicians of all colours are revealing a worrying degree of naivet� over the environmental credentials of cars, says the Association of British Drivers.
Chris Grayling's call for motorists to take the green option, at his party's Annual Conference, comes with the reassurance that the Conservative Party is not about to become anti-driver or anti-car as they know that cars are a vital part of everyday life. The ABD agrees with this statement of obvious truth and trusts that the common sense behind it will still be crystal clear to the electorate's 30 million motorists at the time of the next General Election.
Yet the messages given out, in advice and by example, are wrong. Even within the politicised science of climate change, where natural plant food gas (carbon dioxide) is used as an eco-yardstick, choosing a hybrid or any other car based solely on emission of carbon dioxide during on-road use is actually an ecologically unsound decision.
ABD Environment Spokesman Ben Adams explains: "Politicians are using carbon dioxide emissions as their criterion of choice. Accordingly they should use the dust-to-dust figures for a particular car, not figures based solely on emissions when in use. True vehicle life cycle energy costs — and hence total carbon dioxide emissions — are very different from those used in misguided attempts to force lifestyle changes on the public. For example the total life cycle energy costs of a Hummer H3 4x4 are 40% less than those of a typical hybrid car. Environmentalists would regard a Hummer as somehow obscene, yet like most 4x4s it has a smaller carbon footprint than hybrids, and by a wide margin." . . ."
The ABD is the Association of British Motorists and part of their lament is a conservative party leader has gone hybrid. But in this instance, they have bought CNW's dust-to-dust report 'hook, line and sinker.'
All I can suggest for our UK friends is to search the archives for our previous postings. Also, it seems one source has pointed out how unique and unsupported the dust-to-dust report remains. IMHO, this may be an even more effective point to research and share.
Bob Wilson
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