On Aug 7, 2006, at 1:28 PM, Scott Loveless wrote: > I'm not sure if I believe it, but this is an interesting argument: > http://www.reason.org/commentaries/dalmia_20060719.shtml It's > certainly not the typical hybrid car point of view.
It's laughably ridiculous. A Hummer is more economical than a VW Golf on energy usage over the life of the vehicle? Total bs. The thesis is based on an absurd "dust to dust" metric that makes no sense if you take it apart piece by piece and analyze what it's saying. It's a biased metric intended to prove something stupid is true by an inductive logical trick. The motor industry is desperate to sell more Hummers and SUVs because they've got lots full of the bloody things. People buy them because of stupid tax incentives, back-ass-wards pundits like this, and price incentives. Meanwhile, Honda and Toyota dealers have orders stretching three/four months into the future for their hybrids. The industry wants to maintain their very profitable status quo. Hybrids cost more to build right now, due to constrained volumes and new technology, and produce less profit as a result. "You should buy more high-profit cars!" is how I read this nonsense from the so- called "Reason" Institute. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
