Yaris Spanks Hybrids in Environmentally Friendliness in Dust to Dust report

[nsmitchell]

Excerpt from the report.

Second is the issue with the actual production of the batteries for the hybrid cars. It is only slowly being revealed that the nickel batteries that hybrids use are not environmentally friendly. The nickel for the Prius is produced in Sudbury, Ontario. According to Demorro, ” 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.” Toyota produces 1,000 tons annually. The production of the batteries does not end in Canada, the nickel is then sent off to a refinery in Europe and then off to China and finally it ends up in finished form in Japan. This in turn uses more energy to create the batteries since it involves many factories all over the world.

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Anyone who doesn't want to believe this, well that's your right. If you own a hybrid and it makes you feel a little sad so you lash out at the report. Go right ahead. If you own a hybrid and you feel good, great!

If you want a fuel efficient car, get a hybrid, but don't go around thinking you are saving the earth. That's all. The Yaris is a much more "Earth Friendly" car. That is my point to this thread.

Here is a quote from http://canadianobserver.wordpress.co...e-environment/

If you read the article they said that as it stands sub compacts leaver a smaller environmental footprint and that that would change in the near future as the battery technology and service life of hybrids increased. It was hardly a full on shill article for big industry. Indeed it simply cautioned making too much of Toyota’s claim hyped claims about the prius. I still am of the firm belief that we need to get people out of their cars Hybrids or no and into high quality public transit. Cars simply lack the capacity to deliver the economies scale that are required both in terms of outputs and inputs.

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If you think this is shill you just aren't paying attention.