Prius Envy? Is the Prius actually bad for the environment?

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[cdltpx]

@rhinoboy111 Finally someone that is decent at math. Yes it gets 40 my wife drives it to work during the week and she doesn't drive as she should when I drive I get 50 plus mpg she drives like a bat out of hell. You are not getting a helmet on her head either she spends at least an hour a day on that hair. I have the car bc of the fuel economy and range see when we get hurricanes and we have to make it stretch we can. She does not drive near as safe as I . Ron Paul 2012.

[rhinoboy111]

@cdltpx that work out to 40 miles per gallon!! I thought is was closer to 60 which is still worse than a little citroen C1 or other small car or commuter motorbike and significantly worse than a scooter or 125 bike. The prius is a fasion statement for people who want to 'think' they're doing something for the enviroment but don't want to change there lifestyle at all. (Apart from spending a small fortune on a car)

[cuvautoofficial]

That prius vs hummer "research paper" was so flawed. haha.

[cdltpx]

Who do you people work for? Ever watch the DISCOVERY channel? They recycle these batteries. First toyota promised less than they could deliver the batteries are lasting far longer than they said and as a result the battery is lasting longer saving even more fuel. Prius will use 5Kgal in 200K miles take your time to figure this out a refinery has to refine all that additional fuel they have to transport that fuel usually in a big truck figure that too folks?

[cdltpx]

2008 try looking at the 2010 or better?

[radicalsquare]

@atgskater14

It's not so simple. Many VWs are made in Mexico, some Hondas are/were made in America, etc. Other considerations occur such as parts that are made in different countries than where the final assembly occurs.

[radicalsquare]

CNW uses pure deception. It's a marketing company, not founded in science. Their claim is based on the erroneous assumption that a Hummer will be driven 300k miles but a Prius only 109k! Which basically means that the Prius will cost you a third of what a Hummer would over the same initial 100k miles of ownership. The lack of detail on this "report" should be a clue to the deception, as well as the claim that the Prius would be "obsolete" without any elaboration. Pure snakeoil.

[ACProducti0ns]

Someone should make an LCA video for the Prius.

[rogerestunchien]

@rogerestunchien I meant, I hate* the fact...

[rogerestunchien]

@sajnascreed THANK YOU FOR UNDERSTANDING THAT :D

You are fantastic

I don't like the Prius, but I have the fact that everybody took that study for granted

There are no sources in the research! and nobody could back-up anything of what they claimed in that research.

What's more, you can't find any information about the CNW research center! It's so obscure

I made a lot of research and I can tell that this research is rubbish