----Hybrid Cars allowed in the carpool lane----
My Take: I am all for saving the environment and doing my part in "going green" and if this law was only for Hydrogen Cars omitting just water......I get it. But is anyone else accutely aware of the fact that electricity does not spontaneously come from magic. Hate to break it to all you Prius owners but burning coal for electricity is just an alternative way to destroy the environment and deserves no special treatment. Also, check out the life of an electric car battery and, oh yeah, the super efficient way that we dispose of them. Recycle? Nope, not able to just yet, just throw them in a big pile at the local landfill. And for this specimen of clean carbonless footprinting, I offer you the commuter lane so you can go home and plug in your car for tomorrow's fill of "magic" power. Good work politicians, way to think that one through. Oh wait, one more thing, you deserve a big old tax credit too. Federal Deficit....smeficit
My Take: I am all for saving the environment and doing my part in "going green" and if this law was only for Hydrogen Cars omitting just water......I get it. But is anyone else accutely aware of the fact that electricity does not spontaneously come from magic. Hate to break it to all you Prius owners but burning coal for electricity is just an alternative way to destroy the environment and deserves no special treatment. Also, check out the life of an electric car battery and, oh yeah, the super efficient way that we dispose of them. Recycle? Nope, not able to just yet, just throw them in a big pile at the local landfill. And for this specimen of clean carbonless footprinting, I offer you the commuter lane so you can go home and plug in your car for tomorrow's fill of "magic" power. Good work politicians, way to think that one through. Oh wait, one more thing, you deserve a big old tax credit too. Federal Deficit....smeficit
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ReplyDeleteBuilding a Toyota Prius causes more environmental damage than a Hummer that is on the road for three times longer than a Prius. As already noted, the Prius is partly driven by a battery which contains nickel. The nickel is mined and smelted at a plant in Sudbury, Ontario. This plant has caused so much environmental damage to the surrounding environment that NASA has used the dead zone around the plant to test moon rovers. The area around the plant is devoid of any life for miles.
The plant is the source of all the nickel found in a Prius battery and Toyota purchases 1,000 tons annually. Dubbed the Superstack, the plague-factory has spread sulfur dioxide across northern Ontario, becoming every environmentalist nightmare.
All of this would be bad enough in and of itself; however, the journey to make a hybrid doesn't end there. The nickel produced by this disastrous plant is shipped via massive container ship to the largest nickel refinery in Europe. From there, the nickel hops over to China to produce nickel foam. From there, it goes to Japan. Finally, the completed batteries are shipped to the United States, finalizing the around-the-world trip required to produce a single Prius battery. Are these not sounding less and less like environmentally sound cars and more like a farce?
Wait, I haven't even got to the best part yet.
When you pool together all the combined energy it takes to drive and build a Toyota Prius, the flagship car of energy fanatics, it takes almost 50 percent more energy than a Hummer – the Prius arch nemesis.