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Prius Outdoes Hummer in Environmental Damage
The Recorder-Central Connecticut State University ^
| March 7, 2007
| Chris Demorro
Posted on 03/14/2007 2:00:06 PM PDT by tcrlaf
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The Hummer is more enviromentally friendly than a Prius! ROTFLMAO!!!!
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posted on
03/14/2007 2:00:09 PM PDT
by
tcrlaf
To: tcrlaf
LOL! The moonbats are deeply saddened.
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posted on
03/14/2007 2:01:55 PM PDT
by
alice_in_bubbaland
(As for me, I will remain neutral...for the time being.)
To: tcrlaf
But, but, the lil'ol Prius feeeeeeeeeeelllls so good!!!
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posted on
03/14/2007 2:03:31 PM PDT
by
GoldCountryRedneck
("There are no stupid questions. There are, however, many inquisitive idiots." - unknown)
To: GoldCountryRedneck
"But, but, the lil'ol Prius feeeeeeeeeeelllls so good!!!"
I keep finding them stuck to the skid-plate of my Suburban...
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posted on
03/14/2007 2:05:01 PM PDT
by
tcrlaf
(VOTE DEM! You'll Look GREAT In A Burqa!)
To: tcrlaf; Paleo Conservative; Clemenza; Cacique; Yehuda
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posted on
03/14/2007 2:05:04 PM PDT
by
rmlew
(It's WW4 and the Left wants to negotiate with Islamists who want to kill us , for their mutual ends)
To: tcrlaf
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posted on
03/14/2007 2:06:10 PM PDT
by
TommyDale
(What will Rudy do in the War on Terror? Implement gun control on insurgents and Al Qaeda?)
To: tcrlaf; TBP; American Quilter
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posted on
03/14/2007 2:06:19 PM PDT
by
Jo Nuvark
(Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
To: tcrlaf
Hilarious!
I don't believe, though, that the average Hummer lasts for 300,000 miles.
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posted on
03/14/2007 2:06:46 PM PDT
by
ellery
(The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. - Edmund Burke)
To: tcrlaf
"
One last fun fact for you: it takes five years to offset the premium price of a Prius. Meaning, you have to wait 60 months to save any money over a non-hybrid car because of lower gas expenses"
So, at 20,000 miles per year (55 miles per day) with a life span of 5 years, the Prius is on its last legs just as the humungo savings appear on the horizon.
LOL!
To: tcrlaf
"
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."
ROTFLOL!
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posted on
03/14/2007 2:12:09 PM PDT
by
VaBthang4
("He Who Watches Over Israel Will Neither Slumber Nor Sleep")
To: tcrlaf
Unfortunately for them, their ultimate green car is the source of some of the worst pollution in North America;So what? Prius owners can just buy Carbon Credits from the AlGore Carbon Credit store and, Voila! the Prius is green again.
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posted on
03/14/2007 2:13:05 PM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning.)
To: tcrlaf
Oh please, wait!...
I'm gonna go get my lawn chair, bottle of beer and some popcorn to watch the environmental whackos kill themselves.... I'm hoping they use a magnifying glass and some mulch to set themselves on fire....bwahahahahahahahaha
Now I know why Al Gore and the rest of the enviro-hypocrites drive SUV's .... they are driving them cause they "care" about the environment...we drive them cause we've go 4 kids and lots of stuff to carry.
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posted on
03/14/2007 2:13:56 PM PDT
by
Dick Vomer
(liberals suck......... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.,)
To: tcrlaf
"The Hummer is more enviromentally friendly than a Prius! ROTFLMAO!!!!"
The environazis will refuse to acknowlege this. The MSM will never report it, and most of this bizzaro world country we still call America will remain ignorant.
And the smug alert will remain high.
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posted on
03/14/2007 2:14:57 PM PDT
by
brownsfan
(It's not a war on terror... it's a war with islam.)
To: tcrlaf
...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, That shadows an old x42i money trail! woo woo
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posted on
03/14/2007 2:15:53 PM PDT
by
JoeSixPack1
(Arrive, Raise hell, Leave.)
To: tcrlaf
The Gubernut should require this article posted prominently in every Toyota showroom, as part of "truth in advertising" laws.
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posted on
03/14/2007 2:17:08 PM PDT
by
Wuli
To: tcrlaf
Apparently the Limocrites should stick to their limos and stick their precious Prious! Algore will be right on this.
Pray for W and Our Troops
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posted on
03/14/2007 2:17:35 PM PDT
by
bray
(Redeploy to Tehran)
To: tcrlaf
This is so awesome. Someone please go kick Leo DiCaprio in the nuts for me.
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posted on
03/14/2007 2:18:25 PM PDT
by
Thrusher
("There is no peace without victory.")
To: tcrlaf
It is tempting to keep a stack of prints of this article and put them under Prius windshield wipers.
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posted on
03/14/2007 2:18:52 PM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: tcrlaf
The numbers look bogus.
Through a study by CNW Marketing called Dust to Dust, the total combined energy is taken from all the electrical, fuel, transportation, materials (metal, plastic, etc) and hundreds of other factors over the expected lifetime of a vehicle. The Prius costs an average of $3.25 per mile driven over a lifetime of 100,000 miles - the expected lifespan of the Hybrid.
So that is $325,000 for its lifetime. If gas is at $3/gallon for 40 mile/gal, that's $7,500 of gas in a lifetime leaving $317,500 in non-gasoline costs. If the car is made from "pure energy", i.e. the entire cost of the car is directly attributed to energy cost and nothing else, the energy cost would be about $25,000. That leaves $292,500 in other energy costs for the car's lifetime. What are those costs? Repair parts might be some. Maybe a little hot water to wash your Prius.
When this story originally came out ( Have You Hugged a Hummer Today? (Piercing the Hybrid Hype) ) I looked at it and just about the entire amount of the Prius's energy cost was for disposal. Do you know of any junkyard which asks you for a quarter million dollars to take your junker off your hands?
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posted on
03/14/2007 2:20:10 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Parker v. DC: the best court decision of the year.)
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