There is more to saving the environment than miles per gallon

[VegasGuy]

I found this excerpt from our local paper's opinion pages to be quite interesting:

Meantime, let us contemplate the CNW Marketing Research report "Dust to Dust: The Energy Cost of New Vehicles From Concept to Disposal," which concludes the gas-guzzling Hummer is more "environmental friendly" than another familiar electric vehicle, the hybrid electric Prius.

The Prius' battery contains nickel, you see, which is mined in Ontario, Canada. The plant that smelts this nickel is nicknamed "the Superstack" because of the amount of pollution it puts out.

That smelted nickel then has to travel (via container ship) to Europe to be refined, then to China to be made into "nickel foam," then to Japan for assembly, and finally back to the United States. All this shipping costs a great deal, both in dollars and in pollution.

The study concludes that -- all production costs taken into account -- the Prius costs about $3.25 per mile and is expected to last about 100,000 miles, while the Hummer costs about $1.95 per mile and is expected to last about 300,000 miles.

Full story here:
http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/electric...-98696104.html

[surf twang]

[frontside720]

There was a very simular article in the Toronto Star a few months back.

As far as the superstack!! That's hillarious. I was born in that city and it's called Sudbury.

It's so large that you can drive a car around the top of it. (probably not a hummer though!)

[frontside720]

The mine is called INCO in case anyone wanted to google the stack.

They have been on strike for over a year so pollution has been a little better!

[MVR 155]

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