Originally Posted by
Dano Moparo
True, but everyone is living in the "here and now" midset latley.
The one thing that hits me is that Al Gore says that in 10 years we will be overcome with the effects of "Global Warming" and we need to act immedeatly.
Now Tojo wants to flood the american market with a million of these over-hyped, over-estimated under-powered energy sucking piles of shit over the next ten years.
So I wanna know how much this is gonna accelerate global warming?
Well Toyota's seemingly of the impression that this is the beginning of the end for the gasoline powered car. So they have to break a few eggs to make the omelette. Suffer the increased energy consumption now in order to reduce it later. If hybrids do end up taking over the market
and reducing energy consumption, no one will bitch about the increased consumption now. If they dont, well then we might hear more about this. I say might because well you know that no one likes to say bad things about the foreign automakers.
In any case, hybrids have a long way to go until they satisfy the needs of consumers as a whole.