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These hybrid cars damage the environment more in pollution than a traditional gas powered vehicle. They are cost-inefficient and impractical.

Snobs don’t realize it.

- the production of the Hummer, does far less damage to the environment than the production of the Toyota Prius, such that driving it for 300,000 miles is far better for the environment than driving a Toyota Prius for 100,000 miles, due to the smelter pollution used to make the Nickel-Cadmium batteries.

- 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 environmentalists nightmare.

- 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.

-- 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.--

--this is so much environmental hogwash. The Canadian mining industry has been under restrictive environmental rules for years , just as it is in the US--

-- 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. --

I see this was called out by a previous poster, but want to make the additional point that the scene described used to be true; even in the 1980's. But I have been to Sudbury, and the "dead zone" is very much alive, as the smelter emissions have been curtailed.

That said, I agree with the ultimate conclusion of the article. The so-called "green" technologies are an illusion, as only a fraction of the life and use cycle is viewed when affixing the "green" label.

The Sudbury, Ontario plant began operations in 1858, long before cars were invented, and 150 years before hybrids.

Reasonable, informed humans can draw their own conclusions about the "dead as the moon" hysterics.

Anybody want to talk about Chrome? Polonium? Rare Earths?