Hybrid cars

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<p>mini,</p>

<p>Keep in mind energy usage isn’t the same as gas usage. Cars use gasoline to run but factories don’t necessarily use gasoline to build cars. The real point isn’t to save energy, but to reduce green house gas emissions. So if you want to prove that it doesn’t make “green” sense, you’d want to start by looking at how much green house gas emissions are generated throughout the lifetime of the cars.</p>

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<p>“The real point isn’t to save energy, but to reduce green house gas emissions.”</p>

<p>And, if you ask me, to decrease dependence on foreign oil. Burning coal or natural gas is preferable in my book even where the greenhouse-gas output is equal to the output of burning gasoline, because we do all kinds of other harm to the world by giving money to the Saudis.</p>

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<p>re: much earlier suggestion to use an e-85 vehicle. All sorts of environmental questions on that one, too. </p>

<p>A couple are: The fuel used in farming and transporting the corn if corn is used (willow and switch grass seem better candidtes to me), and did you read recently the tidbit about some processing facilities using COAL to fuel the conversion process to ethanol?</p>

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<p>My hybrid Prius just made it through its first Syracuse winter and we did just fine. The mileage did go down to about 36 instead of the 48 I get in warmer weather but I did not have problems with traction and we had a lot of snow!!</p>

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<p>And the statistics on how long it will take to recoup the cost of the hybrid are also out of date - around here, they’re predicting close to $4/gallon by the end of the summer.</p>

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<p>“The Prius costs an average of $3.25 per mile driven over a lifetime of 100,000 miles – the expected lifespan of the Hybrid.”</p>

<p>I’m hoping my wife’s car isn’t on its last legs, but if it is we are going to consider a hybrid. </p>

<p>I got the above quote from an article collegemom quoted. I can’t see this at all. $3.25 per mile times 100,000 miles is $325,000 to run a Prius over its lifetime. That just sounds absurd. </p>

<p>Anyway, how much does a hybrid cost to maintain it? When you take it into the shop for repairs, does it cost more than a normal car? I’m not sure why it should, but does it?</p>