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Old 03-14-2007, 08:44 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Re: PRIUS more harmful than HUMMER!

Please don't quote me but I seem to remember "Dr Z" the head guy at Daimler Chrysler making some similar statements about hybred cars. Something about having to have to drive a hybred 60,000 plus miles a year over the course of a typical 5 year loan in order to break even for the additional initial costs.. something like that. I also seem to remember something about a lawn mower putting out as much harmful pollutants as a car driving from LA to Chicago in an hour of mowing. I'm going by memory (always a bad idea!) but some of this makes sense I think. Until everybody hops on the band wagon these few hybreds aren't making much of an impact on the environment, the problems go far deeper then that... sorry for the long winded thoughts.
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