Green Wheels

We should be worrying about the enviroment, but lets face it, we are busy buying our next car... or at least looking for it. Aren't we a bunch of unconscious/ignorant/self-centered idiots.
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TIME.com posted that even though gas prices are soaring, people remain looking for the not-so-fuel-efficient cars like Hummers. The statistic showed that compared to internet based searches for cars, Hummer outnumbers the new Toyota hybrid Prius more than 2 to 1.
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Im not saying that more people will buy Hummers, big pretty toys dont come cheap, but it reflects what people are looking at and perhaps how ignorant they remain of the crisis at hand.
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I dont understand though, why we are still looking at hybrids when we could go all in with ethanol fueled cars (like in Brazil) and reduce the cost, both economic and enviromental, of transportation.
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I'm beginning to agree we some people that say that the rise in the cost of fuel is a good thing. It is perhaps the human masochist way of teaching ourselves the cost of our living, suffocating until we find an alternative. (That and perhaps some politics involved hehe)
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The post is called The Prius-Hummer Phenomenon, find it here.

(And I don't own that picture...)