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Civic responsibility
The Civic is perhaps the best eco-car to pre-date the hybrids. For maximum reliability go for a year just before a redesign...
That means '95, '00, and '04. Still you're talking about one of the most reliable and fuel efficient cars out there. On Umbra on used cars posted 4 years, 1 month ago 16 Responses
Very bad news
What I find intriguing about both the Kunstlerian and Heinbergian points of view is that they describe the sickening and absurd excesses of our consumer society, and then posit that it will all simply collapse without the possibility of say reducing everyone's consumption to a sane level (sorry... only 2 brands of detergent at the store, food from only 100 miles away and in season, no $200 flights to Cabo, etc.).
The discrepancy between the situation described by these two Casssandras and say the Economist is so stark (3 years to oil peak versus 25), that I wonder if the real time frame isn't in the middle. If its 10 years, consumers and business might quickly readjust their consumption and resourse efficiency. If its 3, then its "Katie... bar the door and pass the ammunition!"On An interview with doomsaying author James Howard Kunstler posted 4 years, 6 months ago 25 Responses