I'm going to scream...

[Neicy]

Originally Posted by siliconhybrid

A stanford graduate lady told me,"You know, hybrids do not save the planet, how they manufacture the hybrid cars is a lot more destructive to the nature than they manufacture regular cars"

how am I supposed to answer that?

She is believing that CNW article from years ago that has been proven false by many other sources. Check out this Myths and Rebuttals thread:

Prius Myths and their Rebuttals

[cvstan]

As the owner of a MINI, two BMWs and a Prius I can comment. The Prius is a really slow car... On the other hand, it is perfectly adequate for non-sporty driving and basic transportation and it does allow you to make fun of people driving serious gas-guzzlers. I tell my neighbor that I drive the Prius because the MINI only gets 30mpg and that 30mpg is not very good these days. He tells me his SUV gets 14mpg! Yikes! My BMW M5 is a 340hp, 165mph 4-door which is regarded as a gas guzzler and it can manage over 20mpg. I figure that by replacing a 7-series BMW with the MINI and replacing the Subaru wagon with the Prius, we have probably cut our family gas consumption by 50% this year. Not bad.
The Prius does deliver better mileage than other cars with its carrying capacity, but there are not too many cars that are slower (if this doesn't matter to you, OK). I have to wonder if the Prius would get better mileage if you took the battery and electric motor out and threw them away.
Other cars would get better mpg if they didn't have such big engines. Does a Honda Accord really need 260+hp?

[cwerdna]

Originally Posted by cvstan

As the owner of a MINI, two BMWs and a Prius I can comment. The Prius is a really slow car... On the other hand, it is perfectly adequate for non-sporty driving and basic transportation and it does allow you to make fun of people driving serious gas-guzzlers. I tell my neighbor that I drive the Prius because the MINI only gets 30mpg and that 30mpg is not very good these days. He tells me his SUV gets 14mpg! Yikes! My BMW M5 is a 340hp, 165mph 4-door which is regarded as a gas guzzler and it can manage over 20mpg.
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Other cars would get better mpg if they didn't have such big engines. Does a Honda Accord really need 260+hp?

The stupid part is that light trucks (SUVs, minivans, trucks and some vans), the ones w/the worst economy are totally exempt from the gas guzzler tax yet they in the 2007 model year made up 49% of vehicles sales. To top it off, the combined fuel economy numbers are from "uncorrected" (unfudged) EPA dyno numbers of the old testing method. If they were based on "corrected" numbers and on the MY 08+ method, a ton of SUVs would face the gas guzzler tax.

As for the Accord, well, there's the 2.4L inline 4 version w/177 hp.

URLs below some supporting info:
http://www.epa.gov/fueleconomy/guzzler/420f06042.htm
http://suvs.about.com/od/fueleconomy...gasguzzler.htm
http://www.epa.gov/otaq/cert/mpg/fetrends/420s07001.htm

[snowdog650]

Just tell them that you bought the Prius because it is an excellent platform to drop a 350 small-block into. That's why you bought it ... you're just saving up the extra $$ to pull out the engine and electric motors.

They won't understand that, either.

[patsparks]

To the OP, just look them in the eye, smile, tap the side of your nose with your index finger and walk away.

This will frustrate the crap out of them.