Hybrid Cars, Do you think they're good? Options

[*steve330*]

I personally think they suck. The production of them puts out more emissions than would have been reduced due to the fact that it's a hybrid. In making the battery, they have to mine the nickel in Canada, ship to england for refining, ship to China for further refining, ship to Japan to be made into the battery, ship to America to be put into the production queue and does w/e from there on out. The quarry where they mine in Canada has had such horrible pollution that all around it, the acid rain's destroyed all vegetation.

Also I did the math and you would have to drive 212,500 miles on a civic hybrid to make it more cost beneficial than a regular civic. This was under the assumption that gas was 3.00 per gallon (which it is in Houston)

[*steve330*]

Paying to fill it up for 300k miles is actually cheaper than driving a hybrid that long because you have to buy multiple cars.

When you factor in all the energy it takes to drive and build a Prius it takes almost 50% more energy than a Hummer. In a study by CNW Marketing called "Dust to Dust", researchers discovered that the Prius costs and average of $3.25 per mile driven over a lifetime of 100,000 miles (the expected lifespan of a hybrid). On the other hand the Hummer costs $1.95 per mile over an expected 300,000 miles.

http://www.thetorquereport.com/2007/03/toy...s_efficien.html