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Re: hybrid cars » Jost

Posted by laima on August 18, 2006, at 20:49:45

In reply to Re: oil business and profits » laima, posted by Jost on August 18, 2006, at 19:18:35

One more thing--he claimed that "all that most hybrid fuel cell cars do with current technologies is move the oil burning from the car's engine to the fuel cell factory. It's a green-wash, it's marketing--though it does keep the city air cleaner-since the burning happens at the fuel cell plant."

I didn't believe it!!! I was so perterbed!!

But then later I saw a very similar report from Greenpeace, and then yet another in a magazine; I think it was Utne Reader. (Sorry- can't give proper references, I don't remember.)

How's that for some irony.

But I saw a lady on tv the other day who drives a thing around town which is a cross between a bike and a golf cart. She part peddles, and part relies on plugging the thing in at night to charge it up...very interesting-but no clue as to where one gets one of these 100,000$ devices. It can reach speeds of 40 miles per hour, per the report. She explained, "I figure that in about another year the thing will have paid for itself due to what I've saved in gas...right now I average about 10 cents per day to drive."

(something like that) :)


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