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In the post about the pre-meeting idea session, sharing a car was mentioned. That got me thinking…

I have a 1994 Ford Escort wagon rusting away in my driveway. I started a brake job on it last January, when a thaw promised enough time for a quick fix — but rusted-in-place bolts put ‘nix’ to my quick fix.

Which has turned out kinda well: I’ve lived walking distance from my work for years, and always thought I ought to walk, but never made doing so a habit: as long as I had a car, I used it. It took a stalled brake job to green me.

I’m wondering now if, together, we can squeeze more green out of my Ford.

I was thinking of this. (by the way, if you haven’t explored the ‘Instructables.com’ website, do! There’s something for everyone.)

There are probably many good reasons for not doing a project like this, but if we act hastily, maybe we’ll ‘just do it’ before they occur to us.

By the way, I started to give my car to WUOM via the Car Talk Vehicle Donation program, but have yet to finalize that. So I’m ready to give away this car, one way or another.

In addition to being a fun project, if we do it, we would have to work out how to share something like a car. Perhaps sharing other items/resources would follow from this?

Of course we don’t have to convert it to biogas to share it — that would be an extra, ultra level bonus point project. Probably lots of good reasons for not doing that aspect of this as well…

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