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Innovation makes useful things smaller - overconsumption makes them bigger and more meaningless (norden.social)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by MrMakabar to c/degrowth

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[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And gas mileage. A lot of the older cars had less power and consumed more fuel.

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 months ago

Yep I finally upgraded my 2003 Renault Kangoo for a station wagon that's bigger, carries more, probably heavier (don't actually know) but uses much less fuel. It has a tiny 1L ecoboost engine that still packs a punch when needed and barely uses any more fuel than our much smaller hybrid hatchback with the way I drive it, which admittedly I do drive in a particularly fuel conscious manner.