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If You Are Wealthy Enough to Afford "Conservation!"

Check out the 100 miles to the gallon Hybrid GM Hummer for those who really want to "save" on gas! And, note the huge batteries in the Hummer, which will someday have to be somehow recycled, or disposed of.

No price offered as yet, on the
Hybrid Hummer.

Sort of like the Al Gorean folks who, 4 years ago, paid about $7,000 more for a futuristic, "greenie-looking," Toyota Prius, when they could have bought, as the NYT noted in 2005, a Honda Civic Hybrid (I did so) for much less. The mileage difference was so small, it would have taken years, and hundreds of thousands of miles of driving, to recoup the price difference. (And, the Honda was slightly larger and had more interior room, than the Prius.)

One never ceases to marvel at what Americans conceive of as "Conservation!" (On his own properties at the time, Gore was using enormous amounts of electricity, far beyond the average American's usage, but, then, he was, and is, out to "save the entire Earth," as he constantly reminds us all.)

Posted on Saturday, April 18, 2009 at 5:45 AM | Comments (11) | Return

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