I walked into the showroom saw the hybrid and walked straight.....past it to the Type S & R, from the research I've read, 'global warming' is a load of hot-air, it is purely the planet returning ot it's original heat range, after the ice-age, just because we've come to see it as normal, doesn't make it so.
The Hybrid was to me a no-brainer, it's not the best looking of the range, it lacks power and it's more enviromentally unsound than my 1.8 I-
Vtec, as has been pointed out above, and until the Hydrogen car is sorted, I'll be sticking with my nice clean petrol. The enviromental costs of replacing the batteries etc, are probably more severe than the equivalent of petrol/diesel, and how many of those who drive "hybrids", still fly, use public transport, own a fridge, use electricity in any form, use/own a computer, bank supermarket, buy non-seasonal fruit and veg..... the list goes on, so it makes little sense to use a hybrid as technically it probably causes as much pollution as the rest of your life (not trying to upset anyone, but I hate this half-baked crackpot theory of "global-warming" [bit like the guys with the sandwich boards saying "The End Is Nigh"], but I do uphold the enviromental impact, i.e. acid rain, dead zones etc. etc. like around the nickel plant above).
May I also point out that no one seems to factor in the other enviromental costs of the Hybrid, such as Noise Pollution, Electrical Energy Pollution, the tyres, Radio waves emitted, etc., this is all still technically pollution.
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Jees I love playing Devil's advocate, to the dismay of my lecturers......
Tom