[extropy-chat] Bike/Trike from hell....

[Mike Lorrey]

> > 
> > Is that a paradox?  Where is the flaw in my logic?  
> 
> The supply isn't fixed.  Whatever you buy, they'll
> make more of.  

No, he's talking about buying old used cars, of which there is a fixed
and dwindling supply on the market. Him buying one up won't raise the
price of the next one a whole lot, but he is contributing to the
scarcity. Of course increasing scarcity will result in non-road-worthy
vehicles being made so to put back on the market, but this is a very
minor contribution.

Buying beaters is an excellent strategy for low use 2nd or 3rd
vehicles, because the amount of energy that goes into producing new
vehicles (and recycling the materials of the beater vehicle) is
significantly more than it will consume in excess of CAFE averages for
a number of years.

In fact, if you realize how much of an old car is recycled into a new
car (90%), and how much energy is consumed in the recycling, you might
consider looking at it as spending tens of thousands of dollars and
many barrels of oil for someone to sell you your own car back to you
with new styling and technology.

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Mike Lorrey
Chairman, Free Town Land Development
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                         -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism


	
		
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