Warming Scare Tactics | Hybrids

"Millions of Americans purchase sport-utility vehicles because they find their utility of value. These vehicles are purchased not by witless, conspicuous-consumption status slaves but rather, for the most part, by rational adults."
- Brock Yates, Car and Driver

Battery Replacement Can Be Very Expensive (Consumer Affairs)
Do Hybrids Make Financial Sense Yet? (Edmunds)

QUOTE (Edmunds)

It takes the Prius a shocking 13.6 years to catch up with the Corolla. The Lexus RX 400h takes a whopping 13.6 years to break even with the Lexus RX 350.

EPA Lowers Prius Mileage Estimate (Consumer Affairs)

QUOTE (Consumer Affairs)

Will the little car that is now rated at 45 miles per gallon in the city be as popular as the same car that was believed to get 60 miles per gallon around town?

Hybrid cars and the vanishing tax credit (Consumer Reports)
Hybrids: Don't buy the hype (CNN Money)
Hybrid Electric Vehicles Not As Green As They Are Painted, Analysts Contend (Science Daily)
Hybrid hype, and miscellaneous ramblings (Brock Yates, Car and Driver)
Hybrid issues, and a rising star at Indy (Brock Yates, Car and Driver)

QUOTE (Brock Yates)

battery replacement will cost $5300 for the Toyota and Lexus hybrids, and the Ford Escape replacements run a whopping $7200.

New versus old EPA mpg (Consumer Reports)
Prius Outdoes Hummer in Environmental Damage (The Recorder)

QUOTE (The Recorder)

When you pool together all the combined energy it takes to drive and build a Toyota Prius, the flagship car of energy fanatics, it takes almost 50 percent more energy than a Hummer

Prius Shuts Down in the Snow (Consumer Affairs)
Prius Stalls in Snow (Consumer Affairs)
Savings at Pump Don't Offset Higher Purchase Price (Consumer Affairs)

QUOTE (Consumer Affairs)

none of the six hybrids tested recovered its price premium in the first five years and 75,000 miles of ownership. In fact, the extra ownership costs over five years for those vehicles ranged from $3,700 to $13,300. Even when the analysis was extended to a period of 10 years and 150,000 miles, it was not possible to recover the price premium for a hybrid vehicle.

The costly secrets of hybrid cars (MSN Money)
Thirsty Hybrid And Electric Cars Could Triple Demands On Scarce Water Resources (Science Daily)
Toyota Prius proves a gas guzzler in a race with the BMW 520d (The Times, UK)

Recalls:
Ford Recalls 6,000 Escape Hybrid SUVs (The Los Angeles Times)
Honda Recalls 45,335 Civic Hybrid Sedans (Forbes)
Toyota Recalls 160,000 Prius Hybrids (CBS News)
Toyota Recalls 1 Million Prius Hybrids (Motor Trend)

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Global warming alarmists would have you believe that a rise in CO2 causes temperature rise. However, this is exactly the opposite of what is actually happening. In general temperatures have risen 400-1000 years BEFORE CO2 starts to rise

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