I was watching a Boston Legal the other day where the law firm were being sued for not being green. In the case one of the solicitors came out with this gem:
Hybrid batteries contain nickel that is mined and smelted in a plant in Sudbury, Ontario. A plant that has caused so much environmental damage and acid rain that NASA uses the so-called dead zone around the plant to test its moon rovers. ... That nickel then has to be shipped via massive containers to a refinery in Europe. Then off to China to be made into nickel foam, then to Japan to be manufactured, then finally all the way back to America. All that, just to put a single hybrid battery into a car. When you combine all the energy it takes to built and drive a hybrid it adds up to almost fifty percent more that it does to build and drive a Hummer.
"Hummers are greener than Prius" study makes it into an episode of ABC's Boston Legal - AutoblogGreen
I thought it was funny and worth a share :-)
You can tell the haters that when someone brings out an affordable high performance hybrid that sounds like a V8 and looks like a 300c you will be all over it. Is there a reason all hybrid cars look like sh!t?
