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Originally Posted by willravel
I suppose the real question would be, what's worse: the estimated 3,000,000 people who've died in the Middle East because of oil...or localized acid rain that may be fixed soon because of filters?
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They're both bad.
And the acid rain isn't "localized". Canada is facing big problems with environmental destruction.
Hybrids aren't the solution to our gas addiction.
One of the reason why car companies, governments, and oil companies are not complaining about gas-electric hybrid cars, is because they all will profit from hybrid cars, especially oil companies, and heres how:
There are two ways a company can make money; either by selling 100 products and making $100, or by selling 1 product and making $100. Historically speaking, old companies have made money using the latter, but they are shifting towards the latter. Hybrids are helping them do so.
On a side note, auto manufacturers love sending hybrids to North America, because it makes them more politically correct. They were also developed to make a the oil companies, the uneducated environmentalists and public alike happy, and to comply with mandates like CAFE. Since hybrids return very good mileage, they help auto manufacturers comply with CAFE.
And, as I mentioned earlier, the batteries are transported all over the world to the plants to get manufactured in ships and locomotives that just LOVE drinking that oil.