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Originally Posted by ElectricTroy
BTW, you said MPG is not that important, "just a piece of the puzzle", but I strongly disagree. I think MPG is *the* most important piece, that eclipses all other objectives. MPG affects the whole chain. High MPG cars reduce pollution by:
- burning less fuel
- requiring less tanker trucks carrying fuel to the station
- less refineries spewing chemicals
- fewer oil tankers crossing the ocean
- less need to pull oil out of the desert
We have to look past the car, and examine the entire pollution chain. Burning less gas, helps clean up the *whole* chain.troy
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I agree with most of all you said, but I would like to point out that
I never said MPG is not that important. I only said it was
one of the pieces which make Hybrids important technology. It's definitely not the only thing, and if you want to say it's the "most important" thing, then feel free to do so.
Personally, for me, I don't put any one piece above the others. You can get high MPG without hybridization, and you can have hybrids without high MPG which are still important cars.
