131008 JUST
DEFIANCE My Comment To The Guardian “Solar challenge draws cars
built neither for comfort nor for speed” Edition
Oliver
Milman
theguardian.com,
Sunday 6 October 2013 23.18 EDT
An optimist might
dream that one day, all vehicles will have solar panels as standard,
molded into their roof and other sunny-side, near-to/horizontal
panels.
This and similar
ideas should be at the front of the major auto makers' design teams'
minds.
But NO-O-O,
they're more innerested in the cheapest garbage of "the LATEST'
gizmo and body-shape and hi-tech bullshit to keep the consumers'
minds thrilling with insatiability, while the paint still glistens,
and before they prang 'em.
Auto-makers only
receive government funding because they have relatively large
employee numbers, so can blackmail governments to funding them and
keeping them operating on the "jobs-jobs-jobs" and "VE
MUST BE MORE PRODUCTIVE" mantras.
This way, they
persist in designing-in planned obsolescence, so forcing consumers to
renew far more frequently than we should need to,
If it were
possible, which it ain't in the false democratic structures we labour
under, governments should desist funding auto-makers, while they
refuse to go Green 100% - far more possible than we're told - to
making vehicles which last at least 50 years, aside from usual
wearing parts, and have as standard all and every "Green"
piece of equipment in them.
These types of
"rallies" are yep, for the wealthy student-researchers, and
other vested-interests. But especially in motor vehicles, this type
of experimentation is what has brought the car out of inefficient and
generally bad-bad ecological and other "primitive" designs
to the smooooth and enviro-friendly ones of today. Albeit that
"enviro-friendly" and "motor car" together make
an oxymoron.
The cost to the
environment in manufacture of almost all "motor" vehicles,
these early versions of eco-friendly included, is unsustainable, and
completely unjustifiable.
Or, the motor car
is, perhaps, humanity's least sustainable egotrip.
Motorcycles, the
one exception. But I might be biased?
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