[Vwdiesel] Diesel vs. hybrid battle heats up

[Dave Cook]

Shoot, James.  If I had known you were going to build a power generator that burned tires, I wouldn't have taken 6 of them to the dump today.  (they do go to a separate place for recycling.)  

Dave Cook


--- On Sun, 11/30/08, James Hansen <jhsg at sasktel.net> wrote:

> From: James Hansen <jhsg at sasktel.net>
> Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Diesel vs. hybrid battle heats up
> To: "Andrew Buc" <AndrewBuc at staxman.net>
> Cc: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> Date: Sunday, November 30, 2008, 3:33 AM
> Thanks Andrew. An annoying read, but interesting.
> Just why is it, every time there is an article on hybrids
> it is 
> interviewed from the hybrid point of view, and diesels
> which are clearly 
> superior (not to mention better looking) are always
> referred to as 
> dirty?  lazy lazy journalism...  tsk tsk.
> Then scroll down the page, and Nissan wizard calls purely
> electric cars 
> zero emissions vehicles, and they let him get away with it
> ...  So if I 
> have an electric car that I charge with a do-it-yourself
> home steam 
> turbine using burning tires to fire my boiler, it is still
> zero emissions?
> -j
> 
> Andrew Buc wrote:
> > This is from the Toronto Globe & Mail. Unless
> you're a Globe & Mail  
> > subscriber, you won't be able to see the page
> indefinitely, so read  
> > it while you can:
> > 
> > http://is.gd/2k69
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