Actually, it was you who made the claim that Prius drivers don't care about the environment. Perhaps not all of them do, but I didn't see where he said that about you.
You have to take into account the DIFFERENCE in producing a Prius over the production of whatever car you end up buying.
He said to *forget* the bit about replacing a perfectly good car. You cannot simply buttume that every Prius driver ditched a perfectly good car. You also can't buttume that this perfectly good car isn't going to replace someone's totalled beater that doesn't run anymore.
Then factor that in and state the environmental impact of both for comparison.
You're making lots of claims - you're not backing any of them up.
Who Says Cars Aren't an Investment 4130Yes, you said they wanted to look "intellectual" and they didn't care about the environment. No, I NEVER said that. You were the one who introduced the idea of...
It seems to me that IS the big picture.
With the exception of the battery, I'd expect the environmental "cost" of producing a Prius is pretty much the same as the production of a similarly sized gas-burning car.
With an internal combustion engine, you have to replace the fuel every week or so (depending on how much gas you burn).
Granted, you still burn some gas with the hybrid, but it is a lot less.
You may well be right, but I find it interesting that you don't offer anything other than what appears to be a hunch on your part.
And even if you ARE right that a hybrid is worse for the environment than a gas engine, it still doesn't mean that hybrid drivers don't care about the environment.
