Quote:
Originally posted by Alan06SUT:
Probably because I assume they consider gas and maintenace into the total cost, which the consumer pays for rather than Honda.
|
That's only after the car is sold. The $24k I mentioned is only for the amount of energy spent at the manufacturing plant, which is 10% of the total energy cost. There is another 10% prescribed to dismantling the car at end-of-life. The total energy cost at $2.42 per mile with an assumed 100,000 mi. life is $242,000. The cost of gas and maintenance over that 100,000 mi. would be about $10k. So that leaves $230k that's unaccounted for?? The author indicates that it's borne by society, not just the purchaser. But I don't see that much of my tax dollars going to automakers. The author mentioned that the manufacturing energy costs include such things as the energy used by the employees of the plant to transport themselves to work each day. But still that energy cost should be covered by their wage, which should come from a portion of the revenue from selling the cars that employee works on.