Prius Battery Production Destroys Canadian Environment

Some more irony for you...

So you've all heard how good driving a hybrid car is for the environment. The enviro-weenies have told us time and time again that SUV's are bad and we should all be driving hybrid cars. Even Al Gore has purchased a hybrid and advises others to do the same. I know some states have offered temporary tax breaks to those that purchase hybrids to encourage drivers to do just that.

But here's the problem. Take a good look at this picture:

According to The Mail on Sundays, a British webpage, "Toyota gets the metal from a Canadian company whose smelting facility at Sudbury has spewed sulphur dioxide into the air for more than a century."

And the true irony: "Fumes emerging from the factory are so poisonous that they have destroyed vegetation in the surrounding countryside, turning the once-beautiful landscape into the bare, rocky terrain astronauts might expect to find in outer space."

Not only does the Nickel plant destroy the surrounding environment, but get this.

"Once the nickel is smelted it is sent 10,000 miles on a container ship journey which in itself consumes vast quantities of fuel and energy."

It would seem to me that the energy required to produce these hybrid cars plus, the energy required to charge their environmentally unfriendly batteries, far outweigh any possible energy savings the car is supposed to bring about.

Once again, we've proved Quinn's theory, Liberalism generates the exact opposite of its stated intent.