THE ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF THE HISTORIC AND CLASSIC MOTOR INDUSTRY IN THE UK

61 13.4 Comparison with annual spend from on different other aspects The second basis of comparison is to look at the impact of annual spending on a range of different activities. Here we compare with modern cars, holidays (long haul and short haul), with IT like computers and phones, with daily activities like drinking beer and eating chocolate, with food purchased from burger bars and from restaurants and with a daily staple – the loo roll! The average user of a classic car produces 563 kg of CO 2 equivalent emissions in a year. This is still too much and the industry is working to bring it down. But it needs to be seen in context. It is around half the emissions from using a computer or a mobile phone or from going on a week’s holiday in the Mediterranean. And it is a sixth of the impact of using a modern car regularly or taking a return flight to the Far East. But the annual emissions from a classic car are more than those from a bar of chocolate a day and a pint of beer a day and much more than those from loo rolls. Figure 11 Annual greenhouse gas emissions from various different activities 0 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500 3,000 3,500 4,000 Annual greenhouse gas emissions (kg CO 2 equivalent) from..... High impact Medium impact Low impact