On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 06:16:41AM -0800, Mike Euritt wrote: > A prius for one great example, is a harder hit on the enviornment > and your wallet than the hated Hummer. This is, of course, pure garbage -- the result of a spurious "study" by a *marketing* company and not the conclusion of an actual scientific endeavor. Actual scientific studies done by actual scientists at MIT, Argonne and CMU trash this largely-fabricated nonsense. For a thorough debunking of this Internet-propagated myth, see (among many others): Prius vs. Hummer: Exploding the Myth http://www.thecarconnection.com/article/1010861_prius-versus-hummer-exploding-the-myth Mr. Green's Web-Only Mailbag: Prius vs. Hummer http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200711/mrgreen_mailbag.asp#headaches Pacific Institute Case Study: Prius vs. Hummer http://www.pacinst.org/topics/integrity_of_science/case_studies/hummer_vs_prius.pdf On the general topic of global warming/climate change, there's a timely piece here: It's getting warm out there! http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/12/28/1103/2921/710/677631 which observes, in part: "Remember just a few days ago when the entire Flat Earth Society Conservative Establishment was gleefully cheering on the "heavy" snow to hit Las Vegas and other unlikely parts of the country? You know how each and every last one of them prattled forth about how this wintertime snowfall proved that global warming was a hoax? Well, you don't hear much from any them now that a rash of high temperatures is sweeping the country from the midwest to the southeast and threatening to unleash widespread flooding, do you? Not a peep on Drudge Report, the assignment editor for the Anti-Science Society of America. Not a word from the other wingnuts." ---Rsk *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Dec 31 2008 - 07:19:55 PST
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