Australian Climate Madness: The pointlessness of a Prius
The latest advert for the Toyota Prius claims that by driving one for 10 years or 100,000km, you can save 7.5 tonnes of CO2 as compared to a regular petrol-engined car.Toyota Prius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Let's put that into perspective. If you drove a Prius for, say, 70,000 years, you would save the same amount of CO2 that a large coal-fired power station generates in a day.
Moral of the story: don't fool yourself into thinking that driving a butt-ugly hybrid car is anything but a feel-good gesture.
In the UK, the Advertising Standards Authority, an independent body charged with policing the rules of the advertising industry, ruled that a television advert for the Toyota Prius should not be broadcast again in the same form, having breached rules concerning misleading advertising. The advert claimed the Prius "emits up to one tonne less CO2 per year," while on-screen text included: "1 tonne of CO2 less than an equivalent family vehicle with a diesel engine. Average calculated on 20,000 km a year." Points of contention were the vehicles chosen for comparison, whether "up to one tonne less" adequately communicated that reductions could be lower, and whether the distance used was appropriate: 20,000 km per year is around a U.S. car's average annual driving distance, while a UK car's is 13,440 km.[65]Tom Nelson: Greenhouse permit prices per ton: $3.07 in the northeast US; $37 in Europe; $0 at freecarbonoffsets.com
ALBANY, N.Y.—The nation's first cap-and-trade greenhouse gas auction has sold the right to pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at $3.07 a ton.
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It's truly amazing what people will fall for. No one seems to be able to do any 'critical thinking' anymore. Probably because the public school system has robbed the people of a fact base to work against -- By simply providing zero facts in their education.
Brilliant, generations of ignorant people.
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