What to do with a Range Rover?
Back in 2006, Ryan bought a big car. He says it’s a “beautiful but totally excessive Range Rover Sport”. A big part of the motivation then was the huge tax write off for heavy SUVs (in the USA), combined with a short commute and weekly trips to go hiking with friends.
Since he moved back to San Francisco, Ryan doesn’t need a car, so he wants to take this SUV off the road for good. He says:
If I sold it, it’d just keep polluting with someone else behind the wheel. So I’m leaving what to do with it to everyone to help me decide.
THE PLAN:
Send me your ideas.Check out the great ideas that have already been suggested. Should we blow it up? Drive it off a cliff? Convert it to a biodiesel or plug-in hybrid and give it to an organization that can use it to do something great? I’d expect that the best ideas will both be environmentally conscious and attention getting. Send me yours at ryan at onefewer.com.
You vote on the best one.
Here’s Ryan’s video where he explains the whole story:
Check out the OneFewer.com website and see what’s going on.
Of course, Ryan should not really have bought such a outrageous gas-guzzler in the first place, and he must have a few pennies tucked away if he is even contemplating blowing up a £50,000 vehicle, but it does show how some people are getting that ‘light bulb’ moment where they realise the situation that the earth is in how they are contributing to it.
