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To: Kelton who wrote (37)9/2/1999 11:34:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte   of 48
 
Go with a gasser is my advice. Current electric technology has a dark underside. The ecoload of a battery-driven vehicle (counting manufacture and ultimate proper disposal of all the heavy metal - lead, nickel, cadmium, whatever) in the batt-pack is HIGHER than that of a four-cylinder gasser. And this is NOT counting ozone from the brushes ... anybody bring that up?
The basic Honda Civic hatchback is perhaps the least expensive car to maintain. MUCH cheaper than an electric or an electric hybrid. (It astounds me that electrics have been marketed so successfully as ecologically superior. It's a damn lie, and I don't know why folks are buying it.) And counting manufacture, its resource footprint is the smallest.
But if you have kids in baby seats, it's a heck of a compromise. :-)
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