Ouch!! You make a very good point. I enjoy driving the 4 Runner a ton, and need it to tow a camper. I know we will have to experience some pain to deal with climate change ... I hope that someday humans come up with a sustainable solution. I do see an electric vehicle in my future. I totally appreciate your comment!!
That is a good point, isn't it. I used to be involved in the "climate field".
It was when I started talking about how glaciers once covered NYC to about two miles thick, deposited glacial erratics all over Central Park and carved out the Finger Lakes and how solar cycles dictated freeze/thaw cycles that they started trying to break my chops.
Like any field where someone dares speak out against, you are not welcome anymore.
In fact, we are on the rebound side to the ice age.
We won't be around to see it, unless our carbon is recycled quickly back into new life, but that is how they justify their jobs and create HUGE streams of revenue.
I think is it better for the environment to have things that last a LONG time.
In 15 years, I went through two refrigerators.
I still have a 1950's Philco in my basement that has never had an issue.
But it is a manual defrost.
If the EPA really cared, we would not be doing business with China and India.
I was part of a design team for ocean-going vessels to clean up floating plastic. Think almost like a whaling ship with a huge grinder to mince the plastic so more volume can fit in the hull.
Problem is the cost. There is no money to be made doing that, only expended.
We can go into how the Earth is a giant recycling facility and how the sun is dying and one day will engulf the planet, but this is a 4Runner forum.
Some pretty cool people on board here trying to share knowledge and logic.
Hence why I buy Toyota exclusively since 1999 and forgo 0.1-2 MPG to get 500k+ out of a vehicle by using an oil that will better protect.
I can buy a new cheap Kia every four years, or keep my Toyota's running for two decades.
The less parts that break, the less in landfills and recycling energy expended.
Anywho... Have a wonderful New Year.
