[tcrlaf]

The Hummer is more enviromentally friendly than a Prius! ROTFLMAO!!!!

[alice_in_bubbaland]

LOL! The moonbats are deeply saddened.

[GoldCountryRedneck]

But, but, the lil'ol Prius feeeeeeeeeeelllls so good!!!

[rmlew]

LOL!

[TommyDale]

Back to the Yugo!!

[Jo Nuvark]

Ping!

[ellery]

Hilarious!

I don't believe, though, that the average Hummer lasts for 300,000 miles.

[Covenantor]

"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!

[VaBthang4]

"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!

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

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.

[Dick Vomer]

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.

[brownsfan]

"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.

[JoeSixPack1]

...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

[Wuli]

The Gubernut should require this article posted prominently in every Toyota showroom, as part of "truth in advertising" laws.

[bray]

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

[Thrusher]

This is so awesome. Someone please go kick Leo DiCaprio in the nuts for me.

[thackney]

It is tempting to keep a stack of prints of this article and put them under Prius windshield wipers.

[KarlInOhio]

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?

[Antoninus]

I've often wondered what the resale value of this particular vehicle will be as well--what with the limited-life batteries costing thousands of dollars...

[CedarDave]

Ping!

[Tall_Texan]

I think the Prius is great and I don't understand why Rush hates them so.

The last time my liberal brother and I both visited my mother at the same time, I drove there in my gas-guzzling truck and he drove in his Prius.

He's a noted tightwad but whenever we needed to go anywhere, he volunteered to drive us all in his Prius (he probably thought he was helping to save the planet). So, I didn't need to fill up my truck once the entire trip until heading back.

So I have first-hand experience how the Prius saved me on gasoline... just by having a liberal brother than owned one.