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)

[lojay]

I think the only idea of the hybrid that I find appealing is if for some odd reason I am in a hurry or am late and don't have enough time to get gas, or don't feel like spending money, I could always just change from using gas to using the hybrid part of it. As in... I could just go from using gas to using the battery if I needed to. That alternative of having a back up if I run out of gas seems nice.

However, I wouldn't buy a hybrid just for that reason...