My brother sent me a link to this article below. The editorial writer (Hummer owner?) claims that the Prius is worse environmentally than the Hummer. Now, I'm a new Prius owner (3500 miles) and love it, and don't believe for a minute that the Hummer is better for the environment. Has anyone else posted this article or written a counter article? http://clubs.ccsu.edu/recorder/editorial/e....asp?NewsID=188
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Stargazer 7 @ Mar 21 2007, 09:23 PM) [snapback]409869[/snapback]</div> Hi Stargazer, Please do a search on the site before posting this for the umpteenth time. I vote that the Moderator please close this thread on the basis of FUD. Stargazer please look at these: http://priuschat.com/Prius-Outdoes-Hummer-...age-t30623.html http://priuschat.com/index.php?showtopic=3...mp;#entry403059 http://priuschat.com/Prius-Myths-and-their...als-t26909.html http://priuschat.com/un-earth-friendly-prius-t30818.html http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/03/20/1858204.shtml When you get done reading all this, which is overwhelmingly negative toward the author, his article, CNW research and the London Tabloid that originally posted this smear job about a 100 year old Nickel mine. The author who admits "Hell, I threw the paper together in 1/2 hour of being bored. I was just having fun lol." and is reportedly a 21 year old 1969 Mercury Cougar owner/enthusiast (in 2007 no less!). You might think there is an hidden agenda behind this joy ride with the facts. Oh, and please tell your brother he needs to recycle his eating untensils to avoid being a hipocrit, since Stainless Steel is the major use of Nickel from this plant, and all Nickel production worldwide. The Prius nickel being refined within the last 10 years was not part of the ecological damage, and is probably helping to pay for the ecological recovery of Sudbury, as detailed in: http://www.sudburysoilsstudy.com/EN/overview/background.asp :angry:
Any chance we can get an entry for this on Snopes.com? Actually, come to think of it, there are quite a few Prius "urban legends" that could use the Snopes treatment. Not that that will stop the trolls but it would be convenient place to collect all the various rebuttals.
hi yes there been so many discussions about articles like that one ....... If You need counter article or info , You should be able to find it by searching the forum. im sorry im not giving You any spesific info , not that i dont know, but rather that im a bit tired of those articles... :blink: else there are lots of good articles here : http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Main_Page and here : http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/SUV and here : http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Toyota Its often the same website people that makes Hummer vs prius "facts articles" gets their facts..... my "facts" for a hummer or a simmilar SUV will be : "The SUV is the successor to the SUC, or Small Uni-Cycle. It claims to be the first hybrid vehicle, running on both petrol and the blood of patriots" "The SUV is the latest installment in a long line of motor vehicles originally developed as penis replacements" "Owners of SUV's would have you believe that this TLA stands for "sport-utility vehicle", but it is unclear exactly which sport they could possibly be referring to" Cheers Andreas
Great idea Moxiequz about adding Prius myths to Snopes.com. It would be easier to quickly locate rebuttal information. Thanks to all for the links!
Has anyone E-mailed Snopes? That's a great plan. Maybe a bunch of us should to get the message across.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(moxiequz @ Mar 21 2007, 05:55 PM) [snapback]409889[/snapback]</div> My thoughts precisely: http://toyotanation.com/forum/t184505.html
Mods, can we please merge all threads duplicate threads and close these new ones? It's getting ridiculous that this stupid story keeps getting reposted over and over... seemingly by new members each time.
