If only a Hummer weighed as much as a Prius

[Prianista]

"Pound for pound, making a Prius contributes more carbon to the atmosphere than making a Hummer" [more]

[TonyPSchaefer]

Buy a decade-old Toyota Tercel, which gets a respectable 35 mpg, and the Prius will have to drive 100,000 miles to catch up.

Better Yet!!
By a decade-old Tercel and don't drive it at all. Amazing!!

What a steaming pile of stupidity.

[onlynark]

Originally Posted by TonyPSchaefer

Better Yet!!
By a decade-old Tercel and don't drive it at all. Amazing!!

What a steaming pile of stupidity.

better yet, buy a bicycle and it will take the prius an infinite number of years to catch up, now that is amazing.

[rpiereck]

How about not even buying a bycicle? Just walk, saves more money!! And who needs shoes? Just though it out and walk barefoot everywhere!!

[Codyroo]

Remember that kid in college who never attended logic classes? He's the author of that last article.

Ugh.

I second the notion that the article was a steamy pile of Chim Chim cookies.

[KandyRedCoi]

old article, no matter what they say a Hummer still blows i know i used to own one, i love my prius 20x more than that heap of S**T

[boulder_bum]

Reading the whole article, I think they're saying some things that some will misconstrue (like if you notice that the batteries in the Prius have a higher up-front impact, but ignore the part about the Prius quickly making up for the impact with greater efficiency), but it wasn't an entirely bad article.

That said, I think using a "pound for pound" impact measurement is a little bit of a silly premise. That's like saying the the 400 pound morbidly obese guy scarfing a bucket of chicken cosumes fewer "caleries per pound" than a fit 190 pounder eating a chicken leg. Is the implication that the former is more healthy than the latter in an "caloric impact on food"? It's ridiculous.

The Hummer is just a waste. Buy a lighter vehicle.

[chogan2]

Originally Posted by Prianista

"Pound for pound, making a Prius contributes more carbon to the atmosphere than making a Hummer" [more]

The article was stupid and the Hummer was irrelevant. Let me restate the main premise of the article:

"It takes no energy to manufacture a used car. If all of us only bought used cars, think of the energy we'd save. P.S., Don't buy a Prius."

[jdenenberg]

Originally Posted by chogan2

The article was stupid and the Hummer was irrelevant. Let me restate the main premise of the article:

"It takes no energy to manufacture a used car. If all of us only bought used cars, think of the energy we'd save. P.S., Don't buy a Prius."

If everyone buys used cars won't there be a slight shortage of them in a few years.

JeffD

[Rybold]

Originally Posted by jdenenberg

If everyone buys used cars won't there be a slight shortage of them in a few years.

JeffD

I don't think so. Right now, cars that are ten years old or more have little demand on car lots in the U.S. (discluding undocumented immigrants). At that point, the demand in developing countries is greater than the demand in the U.S., and such cars are shipped to Mexico and other developing countries, where they can actually be sold.
If there was demand for used cars in the U.S., the cars would never be shipped out of the country. (actually, wouldn't this mean that Americans would simply just keep driving the cars they already own, retaining the same car for 30 years or more, until the car no longer ran?)
So if someone turns 16yrs old and buys a car, they will have that same car when they are 50 years old. The only demand for new cars then would be from new drivers. So technically then, there would not be a shortage of used cars. Every time someone dies, it frees a used car to the market. haha!