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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mike McFarland who wrote (13682)	6/12/2007 11:34:28 AM
From: average joe	Respond to of 36918

"The vehicles are approximately $5000 overvalued. I think that five BILLION dollars would probably have been better spent elsewhere..." Profits is capitalism. Prius owners could have bought absolution by spending the five billion on useful infrastructure, like reservoirs for impoverished regions affected by climate variability." Absolution is Catholicism. "And the total cost of ownership of a Prius is suprisingly high. There may be some environmental issues with the Prius as well with mining the nickle." They should use zinc instead of nickle, they can buy that right from Al Gore's zinc mine. "Anyway, I did a little surfing and found three vehicles that are a lot cheaper to own---and get good mileage:" Why tell me I drive a one ton truck, I don't care about saving fuel.