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Old 01-22-2007, 06:34 PM
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Default Buy a Hummer Save the Environment

Hybrids are at least better for the environment than say?.. a Hummer, right?

Nope!

In a two year study on the most comprehensive study to date ? dubbed "Dust to Dust" -- data was collected on the energy necessary to plan, build, sell, drive and dispose of a car from the initial conception to scrappage. Even included in the study were such minutia as plant-to-dealer fuel costs of each vehicle, employee driving distances, and electricity usage per pound of material. All this data was then boiled down to an "energy cost per mile" figure for each car.

The study concludes that overall hybrids cost more in terms of overall energy consumed than comparable non-hybrid vehicles. But even more surprising, smaller hybrids' energy costs are greater than many large, non-hybrid SUVs.
For instance, the dust-to-dust energy cost of the bunny-sized Honda Civic hybrid is $3.238 per mile. This is quite a bit more than the $1.949 per mile that the elephantine Hummer costs.
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http://www.reason.org/commentaries/d...20060719.shtml
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