un-earth friendly prius?

Old news, considering there's a topic called "Prius Outdoes HUMMER in Environmental Damage".

Go watch the debate there, and remember that you just posted an editorial. Anyone can write an editorial.

 

Ancient News: just search here for

"Dust to Dust"

and the Sudbury Nickel site

you will find both articles to be very bogus

 

Just so you know, people generally don't try to be bitchy or bash people early on.

But neither do people like rehash the same old article over and over (and yes, I know the search function can be a pain in the buttocks.).

 

(Assuming you were referring to people not trying to bitchy part of my post)

I did use generally for good reason.

You have no idea how many trolls or others just looking to spread disinformation or a fight Priuschat gets. People are not very tolerant of this behavior (and neither should they be IMO). Course, sometimes people do jump to conclusions when the first one or two posts are iffy ones. Most are willing to apologize if these conclusions are found to be hasty.

One person in a thread related to the same disinformation that we had been discussing for weeks hardly makes a compelling case for people always trying to be bitchy or bashy to new posters. Now venturing in FHOP is not for the faint at heart or new poster as things can get pretty heated in there.

(if replying to the rehashing, those that discuss the iterations of articles are not the same people in each thread).

 

A couple of points:

I should have spelled it "Sudbury"


My contempt is not aimed at the newbies, but rather the anti-hybrid people pumping these urban myths. Some of us are seeing Sudbury and "Dust to Dust" to the point we know the content of these propaganda pieces by heart. :blink:

This says a lot about the people that intentionally promote these articles - if they were right, would not just the truth suffice?

 

Huh. I just did a search on the board for "Dust to Dust", and here are the folks who posted this article, how many posts they have, and when they posted it:

nofreetime - 9 - 4/23/06
DaveG - 772 - 7/19/06
prius04 - 1153 - 7/19/06
Albertus - 45 - 2/28/07
khool-H - 1 - 3/9/07
liquidsoapdispenser - 7 - 3/14/07
newyawka - 11 - 3/19/07
Stargazer 7 - 2 - 3/22/07
Surfer - 8 - 3/30/07
Somechic - 138 - 4/4/07

Interesting...

Even more interesting when you consider that people have also posted this without using the phrase "dust to dust"...

Edited to add another to the list

 

I know we have a "debunk rumors about the Prius" thread, but this one in specific should be a sticky topic somewhere. I would bet my Prius that someone comes along within two weeks starting a new thread about this.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TonyPSchaefer @ Mar 20 2007, 01:53 PM) [snapback]409030[/snapback]</div>

You may be right. But then I would think that those genuinely interested in the truth, and familiar and comfortable with web forums, would be more inclined to search before shooting from the hip.

 

Sometimes it's just harder to communitate on the net postively.

Yes, there are innocent questions about Sudbury, "Dust to Dust", and countless non-automotive urban myths.

Sorry if I seemed unfriendly to non-trolls.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(rainydysandmondys @ Mar 19 2007, 10:23 PM) [snapback]408756[/snapback]</div>

While it is indeed an old article, it unfortunately appears to still be a contemporary topic - it just showed up on Slashdot today, http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/03/20/1858204.shtml. (And was suitably pummeled - surprising, geeks appear to drive Prius.) Annoying to rehash, but the stupid thing isn't dead yet...

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(jweale @ Mar 20 2007, 04:45 PM) [snapback]409208[/snapback]</div>

And it never will die. Like I said in one of the other posts about this, file it somewhere with the dying kid who is collecting postcards and the Neiman Marcus cookie recipe.

 

Hopefully, hitting Slashdot (a big time, high viewership site) and having it pummeled there might sufficiently keep it from coming back out of its alternate reality hole in noticeable fashion again.

Strangely at the same time, CNN/Money/Consumer Reports recently were finally positive about the Prius.

 

Well, a version of this hit piece has now been published in the editorial pages of Investor's Business Daily:



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