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It is very difficult (well, impossible) to be entirely "green", totally "eco-friendly", of course it is. I once worked alongside a "green maniac" who was forever berating people about their behaviour, nagging them about the smallest of green peccadillo's, what a pain and how much damage did she do by putting people off?
Anyway, it is difficult to forgo some things and indeed surely we have the wit to solve sustainability without wearing the old hair shirt. Never-the-less here is one of my many failings..... driving fast, can't help it, love it, try as I might. Drivers seem to fall into one of two schools; the tut tutting pain in the neck, bimbling in the middle lane, (might as well just have two lane motorways, hey!), creep up to junction (causing huge queues behind and burnt out clutches) types or, the far too quick, scare people silly, too close to the person in front, bordering on maniac kind.
Here's a thought; when I started driving cars it really did feel that you were flying at the (truly fast) speed of 50mph, 60 would really rattle and shake and 70 was supersonic. My little old Mini had a delightful "sweet spot" at 62 and was deliciously terrifying at 70.
Increasingly cars have become bigger, heavier, better equipped, include more "safety" features (ABS, stability control, EBD etc) and so, increasingly cars have become faster and, more worryingly, easier to drive faster with less impression of speed.
So, come on car manufacturers, make cars less like a moving house than can travel well over 100mph and more like the thing that it is, a machine that hurtles you along at 50 mph. Strip out a load of weight (great for fuel efficiency and low carbon), make it fun to drive and in doing so unlikely to exceed the speed limit because that's quite fast enough!
I miss my little old Mini.

Many thanks to Adam at "PeopleProfitPlanet" (check them out)... for this; Animals Save the Planet... very good;
http://bit.ly/3A3Psv.