Carbon Footprint?

Daveb · Post by **Daveb** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 9:17 am

I dont have a carbon footprint. I drive everywhere.

Dominic · Post by **Dominic** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 9:26 am

Daveb wrote:I dont have a carbon footprint. I drive everywhere.

DDtB · Post by **DDtB** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 12:33 pm

See current avatar for appropriate gesture to make when someone starts talking about their carbon footprint etc.....

Edin430 · Post by **Edin430** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 1:24 pm

We'll all get to our destination twice as fast in our Loti's than the tree huggers in their POS's..... So i think its only fair that they f*** off the road as clearly they are doing all the damage

tut · Post by **tut** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 1:36 pm

whoops, good reminder. Must remember not to turn on more than 30 of the electric fires around the house this Winter.

Just done my bit however, the new Motability car has arrived, Ford Focus Ghia - 2.0 TDCi 135 PS, 50mpg. Looks nice and shiney parked next to the other five cars in the family, three of them 2 seaters and over 200hp.

I of course have a permanent carbon footprint, or so Verian tells me when she sees the bed sheets.

However this thread has got me thinking, did some Googling, and I am now going to get the Focus re-mapped to 170hp, BUT, more importantly, I will get an extra 3mpg.

Now off for a run in a completely non green Elise, just for the fun of it.

tut

gorrie · Post by **gorrie** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:34 pm

I chose a K-series powered lightweight car over a TVR... and got rid of my V6 MG for a little Fiesta... and only do 16K miles between them per year. What more do the turnip brigate want? Surely they don't really expect me to RIDE that bycycle in the garage??

They need to get on at the fuel suppliers to make Bio fuels readily available.... (and then we can get better performance too)

In fact, maybe if they just shut up for a while that might reduce the amount of hot air.

renmure · Post by **renmure** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:35 pm

Hmmm.

On the one hand... I seem to have a grand total of 16.1 litres, 1322 BHP, 34 cylinders and 134 valves. On the other hand I have no cows farting methane gas into the atmosphere so I guess that makes me sort of carbon neutral

EliseR · Post by **EliseR** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 3:44 pm

It's all bullsh*t, the lot of it. The methane from said bullsh*t is many times greater than the rest of mankind's contribution put together...

Now only if americans would stop piling the big macs away, we would need less cows, which would in turn mean less bullsh*t and less methane...

/edit:
I had a bacon double cheesburger from BK yesterday, and have driven about 700 miles in the last week. Don't give a sh*t faction here.

Dominic · Post by **Dominic** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 6:07 pm

EliseR wrote:
Now only if americans would stop piling the big macs away, we would need less cows, which would in turn mean less bullsh*t and less methane...
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THERE'S BEEF IN MACDONALDS BURGERS ??!!!???

Mr Momo · Post by **Mr Momo** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 7:22 pm

ngaff1 wrote:Neighbour popped over this afternoon and asked if I had considered the size of my carbon footprint. Didn't have a clue what he was talking about so got on with washing my four cars

Increase your carbon footprint :

http://www.hangar111.com/ckshop.php?category=8

Mr Momo · Post by **Mr Momo** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 7:26 pm

ngaff1 wrote:Neighbour popped over this afternoon and asked if I had considered the size of my carbon footprint. Didn't have a clue what he was talking about so got on with washing my four cars

Does Autoglym car shampoo emit carbon ?

Me confused.....

Next time just say you now your feet are size nines, so you don't need to put carbon on the bottom of them to measure them on a piece of paper.....

YvoTuk · Post by **YvoTuk** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 10:57 pm

That reminds me of my neighbour. Kind of a silly green man aswell, has his house covered in solar panels etc.
He once made a remark about the Elise. Something like "Is that really necessary?"

Next day, he was doing something with these solar panels of his and I drove up in the Esprit. The Esprit is pretty loud and a bit catless, so it really bangs when it's hot.
So I drove up and made it bang kinda loud.

Parked the car and turned round to him and asked him if he was installing an extra panel to compensate for my Esprit...

Since then, he's not even talking to me anymore...

Scottd · Post by **Scottd** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 12:15 am

BiggestNizzy wrote:
ngaff1 wrote:Neighbour popped over this afternoon and asked if I had considered the size of my carbon footprint. Didn't have a clue what he was talking about so got on with washing my four cars
and as you can only drive 1 at a time what difference does it make ?

Because there's more pollution generated making a car than it will ever produce in it's lifetime.

So in theory we'd be greener driving old 60's cars, no cat, leaded petrol etc. Strange but true, and not helpful to the economy so ignored.

bertieduff · Post by **bertieduff** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 9:48 am

"Do you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me the F**k alone"

Copyright the late great Bill Hicks

Andy D · Post by **Andy D** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:51 pm

The Golf has a particle filter in the exhaust, the elise has the Cat removed

That must make me carbon neutral

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