(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 »
Posted by Mark Steele
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.