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    Landrover footprint offset

    On the days that the D3 is resting I normally use my little car in an attempt to offset the LR footprint.

    Here a group of us all had the same idea and headed out into the hills.


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    Series Land Rovers and Defenders, don't need the same carbon offsets that you would need in the cars you supposedly used to offset your footprint. That is because the classic Land Rover shape vehicles last scores of years reducing the dust to dust cost. While the Jap things you took out for the day will likely be crushed within a decade and therefore have triple or more of the manufacture, shipping and recycling values in the dust to dust carbon cost.

    The cost of fuels is minimal when compared with the carbon cost of mining, refining, manufacture, shipping and recycling it takes to manufacture and recycle a car.

    You won't find me on: faceplant; Scipe; Infragam; LumpedIn; ShapCnat or Twitting. I'm just not that interesting.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SuperMono View Post
    On the days that the D3 is resting I normally use my little car in an attempt to offset the LR footprint.

    Here a group of us all had the same idea and headed out into the hills.

    Looks nice!

    Looking at the burnt trunks of trees are you up near Lake Mountain? That fire would have to take a 100 life times of carbon taxation to cover it's footprint!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies View Post
    That is because the classic Land Rover shape vehicles last scores of years reducing the dust to dust cost. While the Jap things you took out for the day will likely be crushed within a decade and therefore have triple or more of the manufacture, shipping and recycling values in the dust to dust carbon cost.
    Good to know none of us take ourselves too seriously!
    Just to flesh out the picture, of this group only one is Japanese and all are made from recycled aluminium cans and PET bottles.

    Quote Originally Posted by John W View Post
    Looking at the burnt trunks of trees are you up near Lake Mountain?
    You are correct on both counts.

    I alternate my latte stops between the D3 and my mystery vehicle. Which may mean that on average I have no idea of the footprint in carbon, gravity or skim milk

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