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10 Jun 2008 09:26 am
That Prius Is Killing Us
Now they tell us. Over to Reihan:
Consider the eco-conscious automobile par excellence, the Toyota
Prius. As it turns out, manufacturing the Prius's battery is
extraordinarily carbon-intensive. Paying off this carbon debt through
fuel savings will take 46,000 miles, according to Wired
.
Only after 100,000 miles would the Prius catch up with carbon savings
offered by a ten-year-old Toyota Tercel. And the Prius would never
catch up with a 1994 Geo Metro XFi. By now the Prius is a cliche. Tooling around in an ancient, airbag-less deathtrap, by far the greener choice, is not.
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Excerpt: At one point I considered buying a Prius. I even put down a (refundable) deposit to reserve a soon-to-arrive car. Then I did some research while I waited and came to this realization stated concisely by Reihan Salam:Consider the eco-conscious...
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