I’ve noticed something lately. It seems like every time   I see a Prius it’s rocketing down the road or weaving in and out of traffic like Richard Petty. Doesn’t driving like a maniac erase some of the benefit of driving a supposedly green vehicle? Or is that part of the deal – ‘I can drive with the throttle to the floor because I’m still getting better mileage than that SUV over there’? I’m not opposed to greener and more efficient vehicles per se, I just haven’t bought into the whole Prius thing. There doesn’t seem to be any empirical data on how long the batteries will last but they won’t last forever. Proponents say that the batteries are fully recyclable. So are aluminum cans but an awful lot wind up in landfills.

See, the problem is that ALL of the extremists (that’s all of you on both sides of the issue) try to spin their version of reality. One term I find particularly revolting is Zero Emission Vehicle. There’s no such thing. There are vehicle that generate emissions at the generating plant but there are emissions. What I’d really like to see is thing tracked from cradle to grave and rated on environmental impact. That would include things like the manufacture of the battery packs. Then those of us that can read could make informed decisions.

It would be nice if people would figure out that there are a non-zero number of people in the population who believe that probably an entire argument is a lie when i little piece of bullshit is exposed. I’m one of them. A largish reason behind my general drug abuse when I was younger was that I found out that people didn’t automatically use herion after smoking a joint like the cop that came to the school and lectured us said. And people are still dying in car wrecks when they use their seatbelts and the airbags deploy. Everything doesn’t have to be black and white. In fact, to me almost everything appears to be in verying shades of gray.

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