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Originally Posted by derangedtoolman
March 7, 2007
Prius Outdoes Hummer in Environmental Damage
By Chris Demorro
Staff Writer
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That article and the CNW 'study' is the biggest bunch of crap in and junk science in the world, cites TOTALLY inaccurate information and uses fuzzy math. It's been thoroughly debunked and you can do the math yourself and find that it makes no sense.
See
http://priuschat.com/forums/prius-hy...ding-myth.html, esp.
http://priuschat.com/forums/prius-hy...tml#post541556.
Even the story about the nickel mine was retracted, see
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/a...a-factory.html.
See some of my rebuttals to the CNW crap and this crap article before it had been dubunked by others at
http://www.my350z.com/forum/showthre...nw#post3495463.
http://www.my350z.com/forum/showthre....php?p=2492547
http://www.my350z.com/forum/showthre...=257682&page=3 (see my posts)
To derangedtoolman and to quote one of my earlier posts about the CNW crap:
"If you want to hear more BS, it claims that the 350Z will last 156K miles (seems reasonable) but over the life, the total energy cost will be between $342K and $391K! This leads to a supposed estimated cost per mile of $2.193 to $2.51!
Does this make ANY sense to you?
Driving your Z for 156K miles costs $342K in energy? Even if you drove your Z for 156K miles, got only 10 mpg and gas cost $5/gallon, that comes out to $78K for gas. Factor in the amount the cost of the car (let's assume the full cost of it == energy it takes to produce it, which couldn't be true),
that still leaves $229K unaccounted for."
If you assume that a Prius somehow lasts only 100K miles (even though the batttery is warranted to 150K miles in CARB states) and somehow only gets 30 mpg (I'm getting 46 lifetime mpg so far) and gas costs $10/gal, you'd spend $33333 on gas + say $30K on the car (too high), that comes out to $63333. Where does the difference of $325000 - 63333 =
$261K come from? Who pays this? The tooth fairy?