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Re: [OM] olympus Digest, Vol 33, Issue 21 (was iPad)

Subject: Re: [OM] olympus Digest, Vol 33, Issue 21 (was iPad)
From: "Brian Swale" <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:51:44 +1200
Ken wrote:
> My wife and I have a Toyota Prius. It's
> great for what it does, but the design spec is very narrow.

> Alas, Toyota hasn't been in too much of a hurry to bring it out. What for?
> They are already selling EVERY hybrid they can make. They literally can't
> build the stuff any faster.

The aspect of these electric cars that really bugs me is the hypocrisy to do 
with what they run on.

They run on electricity, so they save on using liquid fossil fuel, unlike most 
conventional vehicles, right?  Wrong!!

I don't know about the USA, but here in NZ, even though we do have a great 
percentage of our electricity generated from hydro stations, at LEAST 40% 
is generated from hydrocarbons of one source or another.

So the Prius cars actually derive their power from fossil fuels.

Brian Swale. 
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