I've decided to go green [updated]
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I am getting a Hummer
from Impact Labs
Well all those greens that are saving their souls by driving a Prius are going to have to do a little more penance, buy some more carbon credits and pay for some environmental reclamation. It turns out if they wanted to help the environment they should have bought a Hummer.
It turns out, that all the environmental savings that seem to appear in driving a Prius are more than lost when the things are built. Whats more do to their shorter lifetime the things are much more expensive to operate.
Building 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.
Heres an image of the mine tailings.
Oh yes when you buy that Prius remember you are making part of canada a dead ringer for the moon. The cost of that environmental damage isn't even factored into the operating cost of the Prius versus the Hummer.
Prius : $3.25/Mile
Hummer: $1.95/Mile
So in terms of accounted for costs the Prius is 50% more damaging than a hummer. Of course the lower cargo capacity means, if you have to move things you are going to be driving a lot more.
Me I have decided to do my part for the environment, I am going to price a Hummer at the end of the month.
Crossposted at http://www.theminorityreportblog.com/
Except maybe a pinto. Talk about a roadside bomb
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
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...I had some friends who did parking lot slaloms in extremely modified Pintos. Excellent slalom car,BTW. One guy had a beautiful metallic blue Pinto with flames painted on the back end.
but maybe I can talk the Missus into getting an H2 or H3, she won't even ride in mine, too ugly she says.
I only drive a Hummer until they come out with something bigger.
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- by a man who owns not one, but two!, of those politically-correct yet suprisingly environmentally unfriendly Toyota Priuses (or is it Priui?).
BTW, the MPG for the Prius drops noticably in the winter (we get roughly 52-54 MPG in the summer and average 45 in the winter). And the H2 gets, what, 11 MPG year round? (chuckle)
Oh, unsurprisingly (of course), the folks at HybridCars.com were less than impressed with the article you linked. Shocking, I know.
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So libs, how's that Congressional Resolution to end The War™ coming along?
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So libs, how's that Congressional Resolution to end The War™ coming along?
to determine the plural of a focus group word that has no meaning? Sure, it sounds Latin, but unless I was sleeping in class that day, it isn't. Just another stupid marketing word.
In Vino Veritas
...but an adverb, rather than a noun. It means first, sooner, earlier, before, etc.
As an adverb, of course, it's both indeclinable and lacking number.
that day. My grandmother always told me that if I couldn't speak, read, write Latin and at least read Greek, I'd always be a barbarian. She was right!
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Modern languages like this "Latin" (what is that, some kind of Etruscan off-shoot?) are too complicated.
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When our grandchildren walk outside in fifty years and see a beautiful planet with normal temperatures and nothing submerged under molten ice caps, they can look back at people like you who did your part to save the planet instead of running a house which uses so much energy that you have to buy credits from yourself.
month. Well, there are probably plants around the pool, so that's green.
Although I will never have one because I think they're ugly. I'm going with my 2006 Ford F-150 XLT with FlexFuel capability. (Not that I'm bragging, Prius owners)
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I'm green even though I drive a Red F-150 XLT. It helps that I work out of the house and drive it less than 3000 miles per year (11 year old truck with 72k on it).
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Let's see, a plastic car (yeah, they're all plastic nowadays, but hybrids take it to a new level) with the added feature of tons upon tons of wiring surrounding you, even more than the normal car. Yeah, there's a smart move. Just hope you never get into an accident, and you'll be fine.
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and raise you my Bayliner 3058! Two, count 'em, two, GM V-8s sucking in that irreplaceable fossil fuel through two, count' em, two, four barrel carburetors. And, God, how I love the rumble and the roar! Plus, they last forever; fiberglass and stainless steel will be here forever. You go through an engine in five or ten years, depending on how you use and maintain them, and you just throw another of the old cast iron dinosaurs in and keep going. So, I think in lifecycle green-ness, I'm ahead of your Hummer.
Plus, what I like most about it is that it is absolutely useless! I can a do catch a lot of fish from it, but they'd be cheaper if I bought them at the store. It is just plain old ordinary bourgois decadence. If it weren't for fast cars and boats, pretty women, and old whiskey, we could all be WalMart greeters.
In Vino Veritas
Hitting the accelerator was like flushing a toilet.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
I'm going to get one of those "go fast, be loud" boats. Here, I need the flybridge sedan, or at least the sedan part, because of the weather. Something very open and very fast is in my future, and I don't care what the gas costs. But I do know about that "flushing a toilet" thing, seems like it goes through the carbs faster than it goes in the tank. On a good day with just the Admirable and I, I can trim it out and get maybe 1.3 - 1.5 smpg at 27 or so smph cruise.
In Vino Veritas
But more young mans toys. Once you get thick around the middle, short of hair, and wearing spectacles they don't work as well as they used to.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
about some nice, slow ten knot trawler with "lots of room," so that has to be considered. Well, actually it doesn't; she usually gets her way. But I still want something long, low, narrow, and fast, though maybe it is just trying to reclaim a misspent youth. We'll see.
In Vino Veritas
I was positively grim. I am working on a misspent old age.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
and still gets an average of 52 MPG (I got 61 on my best tankful!). But I can't bully people with it like I can my 4X4 Silverado extended cab.
With my little old '03 Honda Civic...
Oh well, when I get elected President, I'll get to ride around in a 747. Then I'll put ALL yoou environmentalist, Hummer-driving wackoes in your place! Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!
There are those who look on Dresden and Tokyo and Hiroshima as some of the greatest evils ever perpetrated by man. I look on them and thank the perpetrators for saving millions.
I can sell carbon credits to a prius driver ?