Heh! I'll split the difference between "yes" and "no": I don't know. But I was looking at dollar costs when I bought it. Naturally it depends a lot on your assumptions about the future. I assumed gasoline would go up a lot. So far it has. I bought the car in 2005.
Hmm. Shouldn't we be getting back to FOSS? -- Allen Brown http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown > Hey Allen, > > Good one to ask since you own one. (Doing a little straw poll of owners > to see if what I've heard is true). > > Buddy with the first model (looks like an Echo) claims that in the fine > print it says straight up that the energy and resources it takes to > create one of these hybrids will never be recovered in the reasonable > life of the car. > > Is this true? > > (About half the Prius owners I've asked say yes, other half say bullsh*t). > > BTW, love how this thread is unraveling--or re-raveling. > > Allen Brown wrote: >> My Prius MPG: >> >> summer winter >> city 55 48 >> highway 52 45 >> >> Of course, driving style has a strong influence. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
