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The Real Cost of Hybrid Cars
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Other Solar Power Topics Posted:2006-09-24
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One thing that has always bothered me about the cost of hybrid cars is the extra motor, systems, batteries, and
wiring associated with a hybrid vehicle. I have yet to find a definitive analysis of the environmental cost of
a hybrid vehicle over its life. I do know from
revelations in the PC industry, that the environmental cost
of the production of a typical PC is quite surprising. The only references I could find on the web in regard to
the overall environmental cost of a hybrid are from a person named J. Pickens.
Here is a link
to one of his comments. Search for "j. pickens hybrid", and you will find some discussion surrounding this. I suspect
that the root issue is that we are faced with a truth, the truth that consumption, well, consumes: resources, trees,
gas, electricity, air, topsoil, water, etc. Descretionary consumption isn't the kind of thing that anybody will
attack, well, anybody with something to sell. I'm not prepared to take a car manufacturer's word for it that they are
doing the green thing, just like I'm not prepared to accept that flex-fuel means much more than yet another loophole
in environmental laws. The idea that buying a $25,000 car is the most responsible and environmentally friendly choice
for personal transportation is suspicious. Now, I will admit that I've been wrong in the past, as I mentioned in
this article; however, the basic idea still holds. I am merely cautioning that when
considering a used high MPG car vs. a $25,000 hybrid, that you think carefully about why you are choosing the hybrid.