RE:Volvo going greenAutomakers are all jumping on the band wagon of saving the environment. It will be interesting to see what really happens when the rubber hits the road and consumers balk et increased costs. Volvo are far from being alone in the luxury market, but they do want to protect their niche (probably wealthy environmental lawyers, etc. )
The initiatives they take may be laudable, but the total impact they make is nanoscopic .
Just a few days ago I Made a quick calculation of how much carbon dioxide would need to be sequestered in order to reduce the atmospheric concentration by 1 ppm. The answer is 94.5 TCF
This means the planet would need to pump almost as much carbon into the ground each year as the total amount of nat gas pumped out. And even with this amount the CO2 content would keep rising by probably 3 or 4 times as fast as that.
personally ,I think , environmentalists should start thinking about bang for the buck solutions, rather than marketing bang for the buck solutions. One of the better solutions is to concentrate on methane containment (which is 80 times more harmful than CO2), but that would mean a change to agriculture where much pollution is from rice farming and as we all know other sacred cows To divert attention from these serious issues ,we can surely count on environmental lawyers to refocus the attention toward the oil industry. The Oil industry , particularly outside of Canade needs to clean up their act concerning methane venting and then spend time and money to bring the issues forward in a responsible manner !!