Posted on 03/22/2007 7:03:58 PM PDT by Kitten Festival
Environment: Feeling a bit smug about owning that hybrid? Better rein in that contempt for those who still drive primitive conventional cars. It seems that a Hummer is more ecologically friendly than a Prius.
Yes, the Hummer will burn much more gasoline and discharge more emissions than a Toyota Prius driven the same distance. But a car's ecological footprint — if we may twist an environmentalist phrase — is more than just fuel mileage.
(Excerpt) Read more at ibdeditorials.com ...
The "study" has already been debunked several times on other threads.
Cliff Notes Version: It will cost somewhat less than $50,000 in total cost over the life of a Prius, including the purchase price.
So if it uses over $300,000 in energy, who paid for all that energy? And isn't that really a great deal, getting $300,000+ worth of energy for less than $50,000?
Also, the owner of a hummer suggested it couldn't last 300,000 miles, while no prius has been reported to have died at 100,000.
I was good and ready to believe this article but I have to call BS on that.
This article should get a good deal of attention, but probably won't; even on FR. This is the stuff with which the tree huggers and their fellow travelers can be buried, so don't look for it on the front pages of the Dinosaur Media™ or on the nitwit evening news.
Pinging a few that come to mind.
---Feeling a bit smug about owning that hybrid?---
Feeling a bit smug about finding this article?
Then perhaps you can explain who's picking up the tab on that Prius. At $2.87/lifetime mile the Prius would cost $287,000 over it's supposedly brief lifetime. Who's picking up the tab? Hint. It isn't the owner.
It's hard to believe people are so gullible, so lacking in analytical skills as to be taken in by what can only be a college prank. If you look closely at the original article and do some checking of the "facts" you would see there is not one true fact in it.
which ones are wrong?
What I concude from this and others is that there is no way to please these nannies. They will track every product all over the world to prove that they have ultimate powere over you.
If this article is BS, would you be kind enough to point to some earlier discussion on FR where the "study" was debunked? God knows we don't need to be spreading any manure.
---which ones are wrong?---
First, explain to me who pays the $287,000 to operate the Prius over 100,000.
I don't know. Do you?
An inconvenient truth about hybrids.
Here were some others. You will note some are from last summer, when this "study" was also making the rounds about Prius costing $3. The difference seems to be the addition of a "battery plant polluted back in the early 80s and that should count against the Prius"
Pruis Outdoes Hummer in Environmental Damage
--I don't know. Do you?---
Well, you posted the friggin' article!
Do you have any concept of the term "functional obsolescence"?
Do you have any concept of the term "retarded"?
So you're learning disabled, I'm sorry! But there was no reason to point out your problem.
Thanks.
It's frightening how easy it is to put one over on folks when it's something they want to believe.
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