neilskiw said

So how much fuel did the Prius owners save while the tow truck took their Detroit built iron to the wrecking yard, and the fork lift loaded it into the crusher, and the gasoline powered hydraulic crusher smashed it, and then the diesel powered fork lift loaded it onto the diesel powered semi which drove it to the train yard where the fork lift loaded it onto the diesel powered train to take it to the port, where it was loaded onto the diesel powered ship to sail to Japan, where it was unloaded onto a train to take it to the steel mill to melt down using nuclear powered electricity, and then pressed into Prius bodies using more nuclear powered juice, put back on the train, taken to the port driven onto a ship, sailed back across the ocean, driven onto a train, hauled to the depot, put back onto a semi, driven to a dealer, driven onto the showroom floor so some one could help the environment and be smug?

Oh, I forgot to mention the strip mining in China for the fancy battery materials hauled to the fancy battery factory, where they are manufactured into fancy batteries, then shipped to Japan to meet up with the environmentally responsible Priuses. :wack:

I'll just keep driving my 1963 slant 6 at 20 mpg, combine my errands occasionally, and save the planet.

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