GOING GREEN – WITH YOUR CAR – WITHOUT CAUSING YOU A BOMB

In this day and age, going green has become something really important that we all should strive too to preserve our mother earth.

But the one irony with going green these days is that it causes you to pay so much more in order to go green. For example, solar system – super expensive, getting a hybrid car-super expensive, battery in a hybrid car – super expensive… Shouldn’t it be that any initiative to go green should involve less cost?

So, in my effort to go green, I have discovered a way to go green (with your car) without even spending a single cent, without involving a single drop of sweat and by literally doing nothing.

The best way to go green with your car is…

TO NEVER WASH YOUR CAR!

And these are some of the reasons why by not washing your car, you become an elite master GREEN ambassador (it also puts to rest my Mum’s persistent request to wash the cars every week :P).

By not washing your car…

1.          You are able to save on paying a couple of thousand to tint your windows. The dust collected on your windows can act as a natural tint, blocking out the sun light and UV rays. On top of that, the dust is able to reduce the amount of heat that penetrates through the car and expunges heat when entered – you know, the same concept with wearing a white shirt-more cooling, black shirt-more hot. So the question that begs to be answered is… Why then do people tint their car as BLACK/DARK as possible when anything BLACK/DARK traps heat? Semua herd mentality kena tipu. Anyways, what’s more, you will never ever get fined by our beloved kopi drinking policemen.

2.          Next up, by not washing your car, you are able to further improve your braking system. Apart from the pre-installed drum brake, electromagnetic brake, disc brake and slip-disc brakes, the dust particles (both big and small) would be able to further enhance your braking system by causing friction with the air. Remember those days when a huge parachute would open up behind a speeding car to stop the car, dust can function exactly the same way. So more dust = more efficient braking.

3.          Apart from the external benefits of not washing your car, let’s not forget also the internal bit. For one, by not washing the inside of your car, you further contribute to the preservation of the eco-system. In today’s world where we continually encroach the living spaces of animals, we need to restore the balance by providing living spaces anywhere possible. For those that are not as educated, by not washing the inside of your car, cockroaches and other bugs began to populate in the car. This is a great responsibility that needs to be taken by each one of us to ensure that our children and grandchildren have a balance eco-system to live in. And in case you still doubt the effort of enabling animals/bugs/insects to co-habitat with you, please read the quotes below.

Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. (Albert Einstein)

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. (Mohandas Gandhi)

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. (St. Francis of Assisi)

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened. (Anatole France)

4.          Another benefit that you would be able to reap by not washing the internal part of your car is that your car will never smell of dog/cat shit when you or any of your passenger accidentally steps on shit. Better than Febreeze, Ambi Pur, Glades is SAND. The sand that is collected from the months/years of not washing your car is able to popiah-wrap the shit that anyone steps into and immediately stops the smell from spreading. Tell me if Febreeze, Ambi Pur or Glades can change the smell of dog/cat shit when sprayed upon directly. Nothing works better than sand.

5.          Finally, if you ever wash your car, you are absolutely contributing to the pollution of mother earth. All the dust/dirt that you washed off your car gets flown down the drain to the ocean where our poor dolphins would be engulfed by them and die instantly. All the soap used to wash the car gets flown down the road to the lake by your house and kills all living things in the pond/lake. See Bukit Jalil lake, Subang Lake and Lake Garden… all filthy and poisonous from the soap from your car wash. Also let’s not forget the water that we so lavishly use to wash our cars and deny the same water to the children in Africa who are dying of drought. Remember, we all live in 1 world where we all share the water source. So by taking more here, there would be less there.

Now that you have all the benefits of not washing your car and GOING GREEN, spread the word around and be a true GREEN AMBASSADOR today by saying NO TO WASHING YOUR CAR!!!