Big Green Lie: Everyone Should Buy a Prius

(Video) Join Sara Snow on Big Green Lies, produced by Jeffrey Hollender & Seventh Generation, as they explore the myth that Hybrid vehicles are the best way to "green" your driving. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Mark Steele - Apr 24, 2009 - 7:28 PM PDT
Reviewed by: Mark Steele (review), Gary Clark (review)
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Edited by: Mark Steele - Apr 24, 2009 - 7:28 PM PDT

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by Gary Clark - Apr. 26, 2009

The video on YouTube is prejudicial in its title, but proceeds to embarrassing simple-minded schlock with no useful information or analysis, and apparent intent to discredit hybrids. The treatment roughly follows; The Prius regenerates power upon braking, but (scary music and melodramatic faces on actors accompany) its electrical system can, OH NO!, kill you. So if you want a safer, less complicated option, go see an all-electric. All electric Tesla is presented with exciting background music. But the price tag is scary. So we logically visit a junkyard, which occasions a mundane lecture on driving your gas guzzler in a manner that releases its "inner hybrid", by not hot rodding or carrying extra weight (good-bye mother-in-law).

There are serious drawbacks to hybrids, reasons not to pin our hopes on the current state of the art vehicles. But this video is not a serious attempt to explore any of those, or the alternative options we may have to develop.

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