text: Maybe Dr. Suzuki can explain how my 50 year old beer fridge downstairs that is "built to last" is so uneconomical and environmentally worse than buying a new "disposable" fridge every 8-12 years.. I've heard quite a few hard luck stories of people buying a new fridge that only lasts that long and when a part needs replacement they're no longer carried and it makes more economic sense to buy a new unit. 
  
  It's a terrible waste endorsed by environmentalists.
  
  The energy efficiency of a new fridge that is replaced that often isn't great enough to make economic sense let alone the "horrible" carbon trail to produce that many machines over that length of time