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Tim Frenneaux's avatar

Farewell sturdy workhorse, I've been there and know the confliected feelings

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Theo FS's avatar

Thank you for this thoughtful piece. I grapple with similar emotions relating to my own vehicle-based travels. I'm not entirely convinced that upgrading to something newer is the best solution though, if that's what you're thinking of doing. Personally, instead of spending extra thousands on an 'upgrade', I would prefer to spend it on synthetic fuel (eg Coryton https://coryton.com/), which has a far lower footprint. An LPG conversion can also massively reduce certain emissions (not carbon), although it's becoming harder to buy in the UK. (Also, every night in a van is a night you're not powering your home, so there's a slight offset there.) A difficult equation though, and not one we can easily calculate our way out of. Your van looks/looked mega :-)

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