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Originally Posted by msh
Lorry consumes less fuel per something moved than your [or anyones] car and it is configured to be as much economical as possible, while you might be tempted to go for something that compromises economy and efficiency.
My A90q hasn't moved for one and half year [apart from the recent time when we pushed it out and turned it around and pushed back] because I don't really need it. I have bicycle, configured for fighting it's way through urban jungle, and I have work, which have bus regularly to nearby city, which can carry my bicycle in luggage compartment. Of course, people have different needs, but very often transportation is being used wastefully. In any case I swear to god that when my A90 will be back on road, I'll keep going to work [1,2 km x2] and to church [6 km x2] with my bicycle, and it won't collect dust in shed like it has happened previously in periods when I have usable car. Moving around city with bicycle like mine - which is something between long distance tourer and BMX  is actually a lot of fun, and in shorter distances and around center, with careful ignorance of traffic lights [yes, in UK stood at red, but over here I'm not motivated to stand when nobody is moving on the other street - nobody here will catch cyclist] I'm as fast as any car, sometimes even faster.
I also previously wasn't hurry to install LPG kit on my A90, as it wouldn't give me any economy, just double the mileage driven.
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I'd go everywhere on a bike too if I could, but I can't. Bike was my main mode of transport for twenty years, I didn't sit a driving test until I was 27, faster than any car! But times change. I can't live here without a car unless I grow all of my own food. Which is not possible at 55 degrees north due to 'photoperiod'. Unless I can live on turnips and sea raddish.

I could try but I reckon the smell coming out my ass would have me back in a car within a week.