On Jan 29, 2008 1:30 PM, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Those are generalities not facts, based on the rosy predictions of > "experts" who either don't know better or worse yet don't care. Lets > actually look at the expected results as predicted, (or more for that > matter look at the actual results as predicted for actions already taken > and what actually happened). If you take all inputs into account and > expected longevity of the vehicle which is more ecological a Hummer h1 > or a Toyota Prius. Most would say the Prius, it is after all touted as > being "green", but depending how you do the analysis the reverse can be > proved. Both analysis are within the bounds of reason. You pick the > one you like based on your bias. But bias doesn't tell which is right. > It depends really on what kind of pollution you prefer and how you > measure energy usage more than anything else. However I'm more > convinced by the numbers on the side of the H1, yet as a civilian > vehicle the H1 fails miserably and I certainly wouldn't want to own > one. Sometimes what you think is helping is hurting more than doing > nothing at all.
"There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies and statistics." -Mark Twain Now, I'm not saying you're lying (I don't think you have the intent to deceive), but it does seem a tad counterintuitive that a Hummer could possibly be more ecological than a Prius. I'm not asking you to explain how, because I'm certain that whoever has put forth that little hypothesis has a dirth of numbers and graphs and statistics to prove him right. Still, hard to believe. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
